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Hi, can a totally indoor cat who is the only pet in the home get worms or fleas? There are no mice for her to eat, either. Thank you!

The vet put my 17 year old cat on heart medication, which he despises. To me, it just smells very vaguely like celery, but it must taste awful to him and it makes him drool like crazy. I got him as a rescue when he was 1 and it took a long time to get him to trust me. In his old age, he turned...

My 17 year old cat whom I love to pieces started on heart meds today. He's supposed to get two daily doses. He already gets a couple of doses of a med to help him not have rock-hard stools that he can't pass. I'm waiting on his kidney results (the vet already knows he has kidney disease but has...

Hi. I just lost one beloved 17 year old cat in June. I took my other 17 year old for a checkup and the vet found a heart murmur and enlarged heart  (I think the left lobe?) and the blood panel revealed anemia and possibly the very early stage of kidney disease. My cat hates going to the vet -...

My 17 year old cat died in June of thyroid storm with congestive heart failure. (I had two other cats at the time.) I had always been diligent about yearly checkups, but missed  three years due to losing my job and the resulting money problems  and last year I was going to take the two then-16...

I brought my cat's ashes home from the vet's today and it started up the overwhelming grief again. It's so hard to think my funny, joyous, loving little cat is just that box of ashes. I know I'll adjust (I put his ashes in a nighttable drawer with the ashes of my cat who died in 2007), but it...

I know I made the right decision to put my cat to sleep almost 2 weeks ago, that's not what haunts me. He was going through heart failure and 17 years old. He was "off" - I don't even know if he knew who I was - and it breaks my heart still that in those last minutes he didn't know how much I...

Ever since my cat died (a week ago today), all I want to do is sleep. (When I'm awake, I'm crying.) Is that normal? Also, why do some people say, "Well, you're lucky. At least you have your other cats." That makes no difference. 

They yelp or yowl if you accidentally step on their tails, but when something serious is going on inside their bodies they act fine and dandy.

Yesterday, I lost my first cat since 2007. He was 17 years old, and seemingly fine, his usual loving, playful, food-and-treat-loving self, and on Tuesday night, in a second he changed. It was like he wasn't "there" any more. I thought he had a stroke. Then he seemed to come back a little. That...

Hi. I will be traveling with my cat by train (some Amtrak routes allow this now) and would like to know if anyone knows of a carrier with a built-in small litter box? Thanks!

Hi, my 16 year old cat has always kept himself impeccably groomed. He would never let me  brush him, but fortunately he took beautiful care of his coat himself. (I've been clipping his claws every two weeks for 15 years and he always acts like I'm trying to kill him!) Over the summer, I noticed...

Hi. I have 2 16-year-old cats and about a month, two at the most, ago brought home a cat that being abandoned at a closing corner store. She's 3. She goes after one of my cats all the time, and tonight he attacked the other 16 year old - not "play wrassling" like the always do, but serious...

What are the signs that a cat is going to pummel another cat? I think my "foster" has decided to bully my old guy. She walks up to him very slowly, he lies down (submissive) and she makes a kind of yowling sound. Her movements are all very slow and sometimes she sort of twists her neck a la The...

I took in a cat from a bodega that was closing and just going to abandon her. Two people had said they would take her. Now one is renegging and the other is out. of the country. My other cats are 16. She's 3. She has become increasingly aggressive with M, which is surprising because M is not...

Hi. I have 2 16 year old male cats -they've been with me for years-- and about 2, 3 weeks ago I took in a 3 year old cat who was a store cat and pretty much being abandoned. I let her have the bedroom to herself until a few days ago, when I started intro'ing them by partially opening the door...

The kitten (about 5 months old) that belongs to my corner deli has disappeared. I looked for her today and will again tonight, but she apparently disappeared yesterday morning and I'm worried she may have gotten really confused and traveled. It's cold here - in the 20s today and tomorrow - and...

We may have found a home for the two 4 year old sister cats, one of which I've been fostering. The other is being fostered by my friend. At this point, of course! I'm very attached to her and partly want to keep her with me but also feel like the right thing to do is to reunite her with her sis...

My foster cat will sleep a few feet away from my other cats on the bed, but if they have to walk past her, or she them, she hisses at them. Tonight she and one of my cats were eating peacefully side by side at a double-dish; she turned to look/sniff at him (and I got very hopeful) but when he...

I'm going on my third week of fostering one of two adult sister cats. (My friend is fostering the other one.) She's starting to like me (I think) but still hisses at my two neutered male cats. I think one of them is afraid of her (which sort of breaks my heart, as he went over the years from...