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Some cats are just naturally vocal, and some cats talk a lot for months or even years and then suddenly simply stop talking. I find Turkish Van mixes talk more than most regular tabbies, but sometimes it seems like all the cats have begun to immitate each other, so that they all make the same...

You know, cats especially need to think long and hard about things before comitting themselves to any kind of decision or change. Little Black, mentioned in my earlier response, was very sweet until he lost some of his mates (not litter mates, but the kittens of a similar age, which I tend to...

I originally had one cat, and then my dog adopted a second several years later. The older cat grumbled a little, but mainly just ignored the newcomer. When the older cat was killed by a neighbor's dog, the newcomer became ONLY CAT for 2 years. Then I started to rescue abandoned kittens. The...

Cats can be bitterly jealous -- even to attacking the "intruder" (new boyfriend or husband/wife, visitor taking up too much of your attention, a new cat or dog, or even other kinds of new pets (snakes, birds, etc.). Cats also like things to remain the same. If you keep moving the furniture...

The clicking noise is a hunting sound -- cats make it when they see some kind of prey -- a sparrow hopping just too far away to be caught, or singing from a lower branch as if trying to tease the cat. It is made by the teeth clicking together, much like ours click when we are so cold our teeth...

I have been successful in combining cats and dogs for over 15 years. It is actually easier when you have more than one of each, since when they want someone to play games with that suite EITHER cats OR dogs, they always have a friend. But much of the time, they interact between species (and...

I was reminded of my reply to you a few minutes ago when a half-in half-outside cat (male, 8 years old) came in and wanted to sit on the right side of the pillow on the bed. He walked carefully around my oldest cat Gypsy (female, 12 years old), who has told everyone that the left side of the...

I have a large number of indoor cats -- that is, they have given up being ferel and either hang around the house (eating inside when they feel like coming in), or the spend the bulk of their time draped over furniture, bookcases, the bed, the TV, etc. There are often territorial disputes, but...

I am 68 this March, I am on a very small pension, I continue to work as I can on the internet. I average a population of cats of about 22 up to 36, depending on the number of half ferals who only drop in for food -- my steady population is, at the moment 23, all of whom sleep indoors...

I think you should all try to find out if the shelters in your area put down ferals automatically and if they do, spend a little time educating them about ferals. In the old days, when I first started bringing home young cats off the street and accustoming them to eating at my house, there were...

So do an experiment -- reintroduce them, since they are just across the street from each other. Eight years is a long time, but I had cats who spent their first year with me and still come up to me in the street after six or seven years of living somewhere else. They rub against my legs and...

They not only recognize family under the condition that they see each other from time to time, but they also recognize humans they have been fond of, although they are likely to retain memories of the territories they once inhabited (down to the houses they once cadged food from). I had a...

All good advice, although I tend toward the 5 to 8 months for spaying and 4 to 5 months for neutering. Neutering is a simple external operation and doesn't require a long period of anesthesia, but spaying is like a woman's hysterectomy and is a far more major operation. I like my cats to be...

Yes, all cats go through phases -- sometimes I can never sit down without a cat on my lap and a dog across my feet. Other times -- and especially in hot weather -- none of us (and that includes mel) want to come into hot skin contact. Most cats and dogs both know enough to find a cooler place...

First, you got good advice from senior cat handlers (hissy and dragonlady). Second, cats, like people, react to what they see as traumatic and threatening events. I rescue street cats -- mostly they come to me as young kittens between 3 days old up to around 4 months old -- and they enter a...

I got all the animals to take their ringworm medication in canned food. The cats didn't want the normal salmon or tuna chunks for cats (but the dogs loved it, so I used that for the dogs. What the cats wanted was the chicken dinner chunks for dogs (tried the one for cats, but they hated that...

Alas, I know all about the treats and food methods. Unfortunately, my cats, having had to survive in a dangerous world, simply won't willing take the worm pills not matter how I camouflage them. The ones here who survive are the ones who refuse to put any strange-smelling thing in their...

Actually Sandie, they are not all really pets. Only 5 of the dogs are official part of the family. But since I was so generously gifted with 3 puppies this summer (one thrown over the fence, one who crawled under the fence because all the dogs looked like perhaps a mama might take him in, and...

Many thanks, Sandy. I will explore.....

As noted in another conversation, I also have problems getting the cats to take their worm medicine, and for some, it has always been impossible. Where does one get a pill pusher? My vets have never mentioned such a thing.... Sometimes I feel like I live in the back of the beyond.