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Cast of characters involved--I have six indoor cats, in age order: Autumn (approximately 12.5 years old, calico DSH), TV (approximately 12 years old, DSH black and white tuxie girl), Cosy (approx 9yo tortie DSH), Jemmy (brown tabby boy) and Leo (orange tabby boy) who will both be 4yo in May, and...

I adopted Domino 4/20/14. He'd had a rough start in life, and got trapped by his rescuer in Sept of 2012 at an approximate age of 4-5 months, so we just treated his "gotcha day" as his birthday, about as close to right as we could get. When he was caught, he had a spiral fracture of one his...

I'm not entirely sure, but I think she may be browning up on the cream parts, but I'll have to do another picture in a month and see if there really is a difference. But I honestly don't know how to describe her when someone asks what she looks like without saying, "here, let me show you a...

This little girl was born outside, and is approximately 11 weeks old now. She has an upper respiratory infection, and so she remains in isolation until she kicks that. She did get her first vaccine. Isolation in my house means that she's living in my bathroom (accessed through my bedroom, to...

It is almost exactly nine years since I adopted Circe, who was then 6-1/2 years old and had been through a failed adoption (she was returned in poor health, but two months after I adopted my first 2, she was back to being adoptable). She was my snuggle cat, my beautiful Circe, the first cat who...

One of my cats, Domino (approaching 11 this coming spring) had been losing weight and having intermittent diarrhea (sometimes it is normal, but sometimes it's very liquid, sometimes it's just mushy with solid bits ...). His stool exams were normal, his bloodwork was almost all normal (he had...

This past Monday, I caught and got Socks spayed. She's the other adult female in my mini-colony (Lady Jane had already been spayed), and now I'm trying to weigh my intent to hold her inside in the "recovery room" (a cage with three shelves and a floor, so she has litterbox on the base, food and...

I seem to remember seeing a calculator that would give right amounts for dry/wet/homemade food, and my key word guessing is just not working for me. I have the two kittens in my house who I am working with to socialize (the adults are going to be TNR from outside between my house and my...

I have six indoor cats, so adding any more to that is right out. I don't have any more rooms where a litterbox could go, even if I did get a successful introduction (I have one that is only partially successful--Mabel and Cosette most emphatically do not get along, but they each separately get...

My son (who bought a house across the street from me) acquired a young female kitten. Her spay is scheduled for this upcoming Tuesday (tomorrow), but over the weekend she started showing signs of having gone into heat (vocalizations, posturing). As far as I know, there's no reason the spay...

I have a total of six cats, four of whom were intentional adoptions from a shelter, the other two were "we were found by the cat" adoptions. The five cats who were already in residence: Circe - approx age 10.5 years, she's been mine for 4 years Autumn - approx age 6.5 years, also mine for 4...

This is Mabel. She showed up, bonded with my youngest son on a Friday afternoon. Took her to the vet the following Monday, determined she's FeLV and FIV negative, and pronounced as generally healthy although a little underweight (which we are fixing--de-worming, de-fleaing, and regular meals...

or How do I get my cat to quit climbing it? Quick background--I have 5 cats, four of whom were adopted from the same rescue a couple years ago, and now range in age from 4.5 to 9 (two are at the youngest age, one is believed to be their mother.  None of them are tree climbers. My youngest cat...

I have one long-haired (ie floofy) cat who also happens to be my oldest cat (age 8.5 years).  She's just taken a dislike to the brush I had been using (which I had liked for it's easy-to-clean feature).  Not brushing is, of course a really bad idea, but she isn't letting me groom her with the...

I brought my first two cats into the house.  (Argh, don't know how I conflated the fact that they are four years old now with the fact that they were adopted *two* years ago .... must be too early for me to be posting!) Domino, hiding under the stairs.  He did that for quite awhile. Now...

I'm not a talented singer, but I still sing to my cats.  Each one has their own individual song. Cosette: To the tune of the Winnie-the-Pooh theme It's little Cosette, little Cosette, she's my very sweet little kitty.  She's a good cat, her name is Cosette, she's the very sweetest one.  TV...

The youngest of my cats (now at an estimated age of 1 year, give or take a month) arrived definitely underweight.  If you look at that body condition chart, she wasn't quite to emaciated, but you could count the bones in her spine and ribs when you pet her (when she let that happen).  She gained...

Me--I'm a divorced single mother with four human children (one is off to college and doesn't live with me; one is a senior in HS and then there are twins who are freshmen in HS). I also have five cats. First, I had in mind that I wanted to adopt a tuxedo cat, and in searching around I found a...