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Oh, for pity's sake. He's done it again. And this time he made no effort whatever to try to catch the thing. He just brought it in, placed in on the carpet and then withdrew to a safe distance in order to spectate while I drove myself half crazy trying and failing to catch it. A fiendish...

Sadly, I live in an apartment with only one entrance door - and that leads into the main communal corridor/hallway of the block, so the ol' pusscat's only option is the windows for coming and going from and to the outside world. Yes, screens would be a fantastic solution in theory, but...

Thanks for your thoughts. I should've said, he's brought in a smattering of live mice and birds over the past eight years as well as the dead ones, but they've generally been paralysed with fear by the time I've got to them (or by the time I've persuaded him to place them gently into the palm...

See, I thought cats were meant to eradicate the local mouse population - and for years that's what my cat has done. But two weeks ago he brought a live, healthy mouse indoors, placed it on the carpet and just sat there as it ran off and took refuge behind the furniture. For about ten minutes...

Nine days on and I'm still battling the stink. Can anyone advise me on how best to apply baking soda to a carpet? Should I just sprinkle it generously like talc and then rub it in vigorously? Or do I need to apply a thick layer of soda, so it looks like it's snowed in my living room and the...

Folks, thank you so much for all your suggestions. It was very kind of y'all to take the time to share your wisdom. I now find that the smell is also all over my desk, my PC, my books and assorted paperwork, so sorting this mess out could take a while and require most of the methods you...

A feral cat came in through my living room window yesterday and when I tried to steer it back out again, it hid behind the furniture and just became more and more terrified of me until it lost control of its bowels and pooped on the carpet. It took me an hour of dragging furniture around and...

Update: Well, old Mouse is now excused from wearing strapping and bandages, but his most recent x-ray revealed that the splintered pieces of his ulna aren't joining back together as swiftly as we'd hoped.  There's some faint grey on the x-ray photo which represents new bone growth around the...

Norachan, please accept my apologies for the delay in responding. Hige San is very dignified indeed  -  every inch the pater familias. Is Heidi's corkscrew tail broken or is it a birth malformity?  Or is it hereditary in the local cat community? And why is Henry Lee called Henry Lee? They...

Antonio, PushPurr & Norachan, thanks for the kind things you said about the picture of my cat. His name is Mouse and he was formerly a stray, but we had very hard winter weather here in late 2010 and one day he spent all day sitting curled up in a tight ball on my yard wall, surrounded by snow...

PushPurr, Antonio & krisrath, thanks for your very supportive posts. PushPurr, call me ignorant but I had no idea Metacam was such a dubious medication.  Probably this is because it's been very rare for my cat to go to the vet for anything except his annual booster jabs.  In six years, the only...

PushPurrCatPaws, thanks for your concern and for posting the data you've provided. Yes, my cat was indeed prescribed Metacam as an on-going painkiller (30 days' supply of it, to be added to his food once a day as a 0.5 ml squirt from a syringe).  Speaking as a person who himself  developed...

Krisrath11 and Kieka, big thanks for your suggestions.  I'm trying hard to establish a daily routine, but sadly my cat's digestive system is proving unpredictable so I'm staying home for most of each day at present.  Not sure how long I can continue with that though.  But at least I'm spared...

Antonio65, thanks for sharing the details of your cat's plight and of the ordeal which you are both facing.  I'm very glad to hear that your cat has more good days than bad days and that she isn't a bedridden invalid.  When I was worrying that months of isolation in a crate might affect my cat's...