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Has anyone ever learned how to massage their cats and done it? I've started reading a book on the subject. The author, a vet, massage therapist, and animal psychologist, says there are huge benefits, physical and mental, for the cats. Since I believe in the positive effects of massage for human...

This is a problem I've never had before. I'm fostering a 15 year old DLH with lovely pale butter colored fur. His eyes water a lot. He gets regular vet checks at the shelter, and he just had one last Thursday. So no eye infection. I wash off the crusty dried tears each day with warm water on a...

A dear, sweet purring machine, named Halo, is living with us. He is a 15 year old foster with beginning symptoms of crf. Keeping his weight on is important. He likes slices, or shredded with gravy, not pate. I want to get him off the Friskies and Fancy Feast that the shelter fed him. He does...

They are at the vet with her right now. She's been sick for a while. But now it is much worse with violent gastrointestinal distress. They were supposed to leave yesterday to visit relatives for Christmas, and Lauren's birthday. Then they were going to leave early this morning. The plan was that...

This is Constantine: The thing he's on I got in the clearance isle at Petco for $8.00, originally over $30.  All my cats just love it and take turns laying on it and playing with it.  I don't get it, but they do.  I think they make the same kind of things of human babies. This is...

My feral cat, Grenval, comes around at dusk for her supper, and has been doing so for several months now.  So, lately, that has been between 5 and 5:30 p.m. But, since the U.S. went off Daylight Savings Time, her tummy is telling her I should be feeding her at a bit after 4 p.m.  This does not...

because I met feralvr IN PERSON! And it was really good! We had lunch, and she brought me a wonderful, perfect present! She's so pretty, and nice, and vivacious, and just terrific. We talked a mile a minute for 2.5 hours, and could have gone on much longer. We will get together again soon to...

Prompted by feralvr's idea in my thread regarding getting a good carrier for each of my cats (shopping lessons thread), I wanted to discuss with all of you what should go in an emergency evacuation kit I want to prepare for my cats. With the threat of fire, flood, earthquake (not as far fetched...

So I went to Petsmart today to take advantage of the 15% friends and family coupon. The main thing I wanted was another carrier. I have carriers for my cats, but some are very old (like 40-50 years old) and they are basically made of plasticized cardboard. We need upgrades. And because of...

We're having a thunderstorm now in northeast Illinois. I forgot she always does this, but at the first sign of lightning and thunder, my Lily took off for the basement. She'll stay down there for the duration. I have joked that she must have taken a tornado preparedness class at some point...

The very generous Carolina donated a brand new, passionate purple (lovely color) KatKabin to the auction for Shell. And I won it! It came on Friday. Interest in box was high because it smelled like Bugsy and family: Harlow was in and out a bunch of times, until he finally settled. Crumbs...

Yesterday my nearby Petsmart had Da Bird fot $2.97 instead of the usual price of $9.99. Just thought I pass this on as it may be a sale for the whole chain. I picked up a couple for the shelter and a couple for my crew as they are pretty hard on them. Robin

First of all, she is Japanese. We had been conversing via e-mail since the earthquake and tsunami regarding her family. They are all in Tokyo, and all OK. Today she said that there are power outages, off and on, and some food shortages. She has lived in the U.S. a long time, but grew up in...

The show "Must Love Cats" on Animal Planet cable station has been on a few weeks. New shows are on Saturday night, and a new one will be on tonight. I've seen 3 of the 4 or 5 that have been on. They are showing them all over this afternoon. Some of the segments (about 3 per show) are pretty...

Tonight I wanted to look for an old thread in the Care and Grooming forum. But I couldn't find they page numbers to go back beyond the first page. Am I missing something? I looked at a few other forums to check for this. All the ones I checked, except the breeders' forum, had the page...

Though cats don't have much of a sense of property, pretty much everything is theirs it seems, sometimes I buy certain things for one of them in particular, or do something one likes, just for them. Sometimes it doesn't work out as I expected. I bought one of those padded igloo or pyramid...

A few weeks ago I discovered that Tonya likes to dip her paw into her bowl and lick the water off her pads - over and over. I know other cats like to do this. At the shelter there are a couple who do this dipping into the watering cans we use to fill the bowls in the cages. Tonya is very...

There are 3 Feliway diffusers going in my house. With 5 cats, there are a lot of "catty" behaviors with each other that seem to be reduced with these diffusers going. I put refills in all of them on 2/4/11. One of them is almost empty, though the other two are at least half full. Has anyone...

Somehow I managed to end up with a "gift" I was trying to give someone else on my group of gifts. Really dumb, I'm sure. I have given gifts before, so I don't know how I managed to do that. Anyway, is there a way to fix this? Can I delete the gift I gave myself? Thanks, Robin

The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (U.S. Superbowl of dog shows from Madison Square Garden in New York City) is on TV now. It's on cable channel CNBC for the 2nd and 3rd hours. It's on tonight and tomorrow night - the first hour each night is on USA channel (3 hours each night). I'm not...