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    Blue wilderness Cat food

    I have a question. I just got home from buying three large bag of Blue Wilderness -- Duck, Chicken and Salmon.  They are eating duck right now and love it.  I even did a test with Taste of the Wild in one bowl and the Blue Wilderness in the other.  Every single cat preferred the Blue.  So I...
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    Cleo -- 16 years old

    I have a cat named Cleo that is somewhere around 15-16 years old.  i got her in 2000 but she was already an adult cat..  She was feral and still is, but she  does really well with my husband and i.  We are her only people.  My kids have never seen her because she is invisible when people come to...
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    LOVES HER HEATER!

    Here's my little feral Star.  Haven't posted a pic of her in a long time.  She LOVES her enclosure house heater!!  (and I do too).  It does not get hot and so they can sit on it, touch their noses to it and remain safe.  I keep their house 66 degrees at all times.  Their house is so well...
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    baby kitten experiment

    I fed my babies their first raw meal today.  Fish.....  I put down two bowls -- their kibble in one bowl and cubed up salmon in another.  The salmon is gone and the kibble is sitting there.....  So that went well. I had wanted to try them on raw so I bought some Wild Kitty (6 lbs size) and they...
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    buddy

    Well, my cat Buddy took off last week for the very first time ever.  I looked for him and called him for a week and thought he was gone. Then today, there he was sitting in the yard, so I brought him indoors.  He had a horrible attitude.  He growled and hissed at everyone and everything.   He...
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    somebody help me... HELP

    I am just dying inside right now. I rescued a stray mama....  She is "Beauty" under SOS. I have had her three days.  Her two babies are feral and past weening but they are crying for her and I can't catch them.  I scared them with a live trap the first night it was set. They are eating.  They...
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    Need advice on getting a cat to eat

    Hello, I just rescued a pretty girl and she is very very skinny.  I've already had her fixed and to the vet.  She weighs 6.2 lbs and the vet said she is about 5 lbs underweight.  That is close to 50 percent of her body weight so that tells you how thin she is. She was fixed yesterday morning. ...
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    Beauty Kitty

    Well, here I go again..... I have saved ferals and housed strays. We take care of a colony of 19 cats now.... And I am fixing to try and help one more. Since I am a cat person, I noticed her first dashing around through our parking lot OR sitting still in an empty lot beside my job trying...
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    Copperhead bite

    I just wanted to share my story in case it helps someone else. I have a cat pebbles that got bit on the neck 11 day ago by a copperhead.  or at least that's what I think it was.  It could have been a pigmy rattlesnake or even a cottonmouth.  we have all three varities in our yard/area.. But I...
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    Kissy

    Well, had to take one of my colony to the vet this evening for an emergency visit.  My husband noticed her jaw was swollen.  We thought it might be a snake bite or a bee sting.  We called several vets and left messages since it was an off day.  My own vet was out of town.  When they all started...
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    GARLIC

    Hi, Been posting here a long time on and off, but I think this is the first post in health in many years.. I have 18 cats.  Some feral and some not..  I have an awesome cat enclosure but my cats at some time or another come in and out of the house as well....  You might say they are all well...
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    Emma and her Day

    Here's Emma.... ah......to be a lab at my house. She is 13 years old and still very very active. Last year she finally outgrew the "jumping all around exuberant stage".. She's been retrieving for me today Then she did a little shoreline exploring after her swim with her kitty friend...
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    Jimmy update!!!

    Well, it's been quite a few years with Jimmy... Today was a big day for him! He spent his first bit of life on the streets of Cincinnati. And from there went to a rescue house. And then we adopted him. We gave him his first "window". From there he went to a small enclosure and now we have a...
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    FOR ELLY -- "Just Jimmy"

    ok elly, All these were taken during the dark. Some of them had to be lightened so you could see him. He is a night owl.... What you will notice about him is in not one single picture is he looking at me. He is comfortable with me. 100 percent. He is more interested in the new stuff and in...
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    Cat Gardens

    Ok I am compiling a list of cat friendly plants for my cat garden. I have a small list and am open for suggestions from any experienced gardeners otu there... This is what I have so far: (the small first list I am growing, have grown or have seeds for... the bottom portion I don 't know much...
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    Opinions on.........

    Morning, Was wondering if anyone had any opinions on : http://www.rawmeatybones.com/\\ I am thinking about full time supplementation of raw food with their current "taste of the wild" diet. A long time ago i had a very sick little kitty and I ground her up a raw food concoction with...
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    Moved and have "new cat enclosure"!!!

    Well, it's been a long time since I was here.. So just a quick update on all. We have moved back to Arkansas and my husband and I have nearly completed a 1200 sq foot cat enclosure for our ferals. We still have all our cats and they are doing A-ok!! Here are some pictures of our new...
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    Finally getting a cat yard!!

    Well, I am finally getting a cat yard. We have procrastinated and tried to figure out how to do it for two years. We live on bedrock and could not dig post holes. I have had the yard marked out where posts needed to be for all that time and have been disgusted that it was not done yet...
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    saved little kitties from fire.

    HI, We had a dumped cat at work that had a litter last week. They were discovered in the middle of a bon fire of trash that was about 15 feet tall. One man suffered 2nd degree burns on his arms saving them. Two of them were so hot they had to use big shovels to get them out of harms way...
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    feline leukemia questions and opinions needed.

    For a week now, I have been reading everything I could get my hands on regarding feline leukemia .... I put a cat down last week who was ill... Festus...He went to the vet three weeks in a row. Week one was due to me thinking something was in his throat due to eating problems. He had fever...
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