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We're puzzled by a new behavior that we've noticed in our cat Wiggles (male, neutered, about one and a half years old)for the last day or two. He is constantly visiting and revisiting his litter box. He goes through his whole routine (scratches, turns, sits down, scratches again and leaves)...

Our 14-month old, neutered male cat, Wiggles is destroying our sofa with his claws. About 6 months ago, we tried out a scratching post, but he basically ignored it. How can we train him to stop? Or is there a way to protect the sofa? Or is there some other solution? We are stymied and need...

Like every other cat, I guess, our Wigglesis seems convinced that anything served atop the dining room table is superior to what he's got in his bowl in his kitchen. Sometimes I'm tempted to give him a "people treat" (in his own dish of course) - but then I worry that it would be bad for him...

.....the AMAZING DISAPPEARING CAT TRICK!!! 1. Open top drawer* of dresser. Cat leaps in. 2. Stand in front of dresser and distract your audience with magician's patter ("Abracadabra, pretzels and beer, make this amazing cat disappear", etc.) while cat goes to the rear of the drawer and climbs...

In an article by Will Cohu, reviewing a book calledThe Character of Cats by Stephen Budiansky, I found the following provocative quote: "With the exception of the odd good ratter, the cat has not adapted to humans by making itself useful and retains its own silent agenda. Despite possessing...

I've posted some queries about taking our kitten on vacation, and several of you have suggested that we get a collar for him, just in case he gets out. (He's an exclusively indoor cat now, and we plan to keep him that way wherever we go, but we don't want to take any chance of losing him.) So...

We are debating whether to take Wiggles (about 5 months old) with us when we go away for a 4-day weekend this Fourth of July. (We have that option since it's a private apartment.) He's very sociable - always likes to be in the same room as we are - and I hate to think how lonely he'll get with...

For a very brief period (he was abandoned as a baby) our kitten, Mr. Wiggles, spent his life in the open air, but since we adopted him at 7 weeks he has been a contented apartment-dweller, occasionally venturing a few feet into the hallway outside our door and quickly returning. But we've rented...

How old does our cat need to be before we can have him neutered? Our vet said 6 months, but some things that I've read suggest that it's possible - maybe even desireable - to do it sooner. (We'd prefer sooner than later: We are taking Wiggles to the country for the month of August, and I don't...

We have a feeding question about our 3-month old kitten, Wiggles. We've been told that cats should be given kitten food until one year old. The problem is, there seems to be very little choice in that department: the supermarkets in our area carry only one brand of canned cat food marked for...