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This is excellent advice. I had a co-worker that tamed a couple of adolescent feral cats this way, using a large closet. She just sat with them, often not even talking. She only left them a little dry food all day, so they would associate her arrival with the good stuff (canned food) they would...

They are all nuts at that age, delightfully so. Treasure that mischief - they become sleep-oriented cats so soon.

About a year ago, I took in a large kitten the vet told me was about 5 weeks od, but she was healthy. When I brought her to be spayed, the vet got a surprise right before starting the operation. I picked up my little guy later that day (neutered). Well, it was cheaper!

Good on you for going ahead with the breed you want! Years ago my Mom helped us get a dog, since our house was in an isolated spot and my husband traveled some on business. She expected we'd get a German Shepherd, but we looked at breed characteristics in the AKC book and got a Great Pyrenees...

I live in a relatively small city, where we not only have "neighborhood cats" but raccoons, skunks & possums. I have never seen or heard of any problems between the skunks and the cats. The possums here don't get very big, so no danger to an adult cat. Raccoons, on the other hand, may ignore...

Sincere sympathy on your loss of Samson. I still miss my little rescue teddy-bear Hamish, found one Saturday night in my garden (!) I had minimal rodent experience and a bad experience years ago with a gerbil, but sweet Hamish made me a convert. Happy to hear you have taken in two needy gerbil...

Pardon but I had to laugh about your complaint that you can pick up Meeka but then she does not stay on your lap when you sit down. I have had a number of cats & have 10 affection-seeking indoor cats right now. Not one of them will stay on my lap if I pick it up. Most cats feel being on your lap...

This strikes a chord, as that is how I acquired my latest indoor cat. I had adopted a darling little charcoal feral as an indoor-outdoor cat, but he disapeared, probably run off by my pushy little indoor-outdoor "Buddy." I had searched & called for him for days, when the neighbors in back told...

OK, I will give up try to cope. I was afraid Miele would ingest dye from sucking the fabrics and becaome feeble-minded. Right now I keep a clean bath towel by the recliner with which to cover myself whenever I sit there. The bad news is that the towel is becoming a magnet for some of my other...

Rescued kitten, taken in at 5-6 weeks, bottle fed canned cat milk, gradually weaned using KMR Second Step to lapping up Kitten Science Diet. However, once he tasted Science Diet kitten kibble, he had no interest in canned. I have several adult indoor cats, so kitten lived in a series of cages...

I live fairly near SFO in South San Francisco. My mobility is a bit limited, due to caring for my very elderly Mother, but it's always nice to meet cat people. Playing by ear is fine with me.

When I bought my house, it came with a fluffy wimp orange tabby girl, left behind by th former owners. I left her food, but she would not come near me until the night she ran into the house, yelling that someone was eating HER food. In truth, there sat a large male orange tabby, sitting by her...

Not sure about a barn environment for an FIV cat. FIV is feline AIDS, and humans with AIDS need to be careful about their health and not "live rough" - they are more susceptible to virus & colds. So living outdoors is probably a short-term death sentence. I fostered an FIV-positive litter, and...

So happy to read that Frodo returned and is making such progress. I know how you feel about gaining the trust of a feral. A few years ago I accidentally trapped a momma cat when I was trying to trap the remaining kitten of two little darlings I found on my doorstep. I had her spayed, but she was...

May sound punitive, but my solution to too-tiny kittens exploring is chicken wire. When I brought in a litter of 4 at 5 weeks old to save their lives, I put them all in a cage, which proved 100% permeable to them. I wrapped the cage in chicken wire (which was coated in green plastic, so it never...

True story, twice the fun with two, who live in the bedroom ON the bed.