Please help me with a mystery: Here's Toffee, a sweet stray kitten we adopted from a rescue in late November, when he was about 4 months old and just neutered. He WAS quite longhaired for a kitten, with a ruff and a fat tail, ear fluff, toe fluff, you name it. Classic Maine Coon looks, and he...
Our feral kitten Wendy is a beautiful 10-month-old now. She was born of a wild mother and trapped at about 8 weeks. When we adopted her, she was easily terrified and settled down in a crate for about a week. Then she started going psycho to get out and explore. We let her out too soon, and she...
Does anyone have info about post-nasal drip in cats?
Possum's coughing started in October, when he came down with calici virus as a kitten. He had bad coughing spells every day for about a month. After he recovered, he still had occasional spells, maybe once a week, through about February. He'd...
Possum is now a big, "robust" (12-pound) kitten, almost 9 months old. We're trying not to overfeed him, since our vet is not happy about his big, flabby "lion paunch," but we have to give extra meals and snacks to our older cats.
So Possum will sit patiently next to the food bowl while the...
We woke up this morning to the sound of our kitten Possum choking on a strange piece of elastic. It turns out that our plumber was replacing some hoses yesterday, and they come tied up in all this elastic. He cut them apart, pieces flew everywhere, and he didn't bother to pick them up.
I found...
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I've posted for advice fairly recently, but my cats' issues changed significantly with their last vet visit. I find nutrition an incredibly confusing subject, so I'd be thrilled to receive simple recommendations; explanations are really helpful. Thank you in advance!
First, everybody swaps...
Our female kitten is walking around this morning with a toy in her mouth, "chirping" and "singing." We love it, but we don't know if we are supposed to congratulate her on catching her "prey" — or for taking such good care of her "baby."
Does anyone know for sure what's going on when they do...
Both of our 6-month old kittens like to splash in their water dish. I think Possum learned to do it from Wendy, who was a splatterer from Day 1. But he's taking it a step further — likes to tip the whole bowl over, often right after I've filled it.
I know I need to get a more stable bowl, one...
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I was inspired to do some research on health insurance for our two kittens after reading a recent thread here. I've checked out 24PetWatch (which I currently have), Pets Best, a few others. After digging around, the Trupanion company is looking like the best option. They have a web page...
We live in a drafty old apartment, so every winter I caulk our windows and cracks along the bathroom floor with Mortite rope caulk. Yesterday, I found a short length of it in the kitchen. I don't caulk in there, so I assumed one of the kittens dragged it there. I couldn't tell where it came...
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I've been trying to figure out what healthy dry and canned foods to feed my two seniors and two kittens but, although I've read articles here and elsewhere, I'm still confused about where to start. I know I'm not feeding them an optimum diet. I am ready to make changes.
My vet...
A loud, warm THANK YOU!! to everyone on this site who calmed me down and gave me advice and support when our cats developed ringworm in October. The treatment was not fun, but we got through it — successfully, it appears! Our kittens have now had 3 negative cultures. Our older Persians, who had...
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Wendy's first two ringworm cultures are negative so we can finally have her spayed. She's almost 6 months old, and healthy. She's an indoor cat, but I didn't want her to go into heat while we waited for those cultures. The first one took 34 days, not the 21 days they promised...
We have a 14-year-old Persian, Snalbert. He is usually very sweet-tempered and vocal, and never seemed to have a mean bone in his body.
We also have a 15-year-old Persian and two 5-month-old kittens. Everyone generally gets along really well. There's very minimal hissing from the older cats...
Hi there, I hope someone can give us a clue about our schizo, skittish kitten, Wendy.
We adopted a Wendy, a calico kitten, from a feral foster home about six weeks ago. She's now 4 months old. She was terrified of people when we met her, but was civilized about it: never any hissing, growling...
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Poor Possum the kitten has a huge spot of ringworm on his nose, thanks to his sister Wendy. We have two kittens with ringworm, plus two older Persians who seem unaffected, so far. We're giving orals meds to everyone, and the females, who don't have the calicivirus that's been...
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I just received a link to this very interesting article about purring in my "Soft Paws Mewsletter" from Dr. Schelling, the Soft Paws vet, and thought I'd share it.
http://www.superhappypets.com/article_cat_purr.html
Bunnelina
We have two teenaged Persians, 14 and 15, and in the past month we adopted two feral kittens. All of the cats are sick and on meds right now, and of course, it's Saturday night, when I can't call the vet when I'm worried. There's just too much going on around here. I feel like we're running a...
Hi there, I'm pretty new here, and eager for advice on all the health problems we've been experiencing in our four-cat household since adopting two feral kittens in the past month.
Any thoughts on whether a vaporizer or a warm-mist humidifier would be better for treating a URI in my...
This is Wendelina Pantherina, or Wendy. She has a uniformly short coat with no ruff but, as you can see, she has a very long, fluffy tail and long fluff in her ears. Any bets as to what her adult coat will be like? Thanks!
Oh, and do you know WHAT she is? Is she a calico or a tortie and white...