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This is my 16 year old guy. His eyes were fine and both green yesterday. I just noticed one is sort of reddish brown now. It sort of looks bloody inside but the eye boogies are normal for him. No injury, he’s acting normal. I will try to get him in the vet tomorrow but have you ever seen this...

My kids were playing outside with our 5 month old boxer/lab and came running in shouting "skylar ate a lizard!" Blech. As far as I can tell, it was one of those little greenish brown guys that are all over the southern US. A skink maybe? This is really gross, but she was running all over the...

I'll be calling the vet on Monday, but I wonder if anyone knows what this might be? I first felt it on Thursday night and it hasn't changed since. It doesn't look like an injury and it seems to be just a surface thing. Not bloody but sort of wet. No other spots on his body that I found. I...

The feral I've been feeding and trying to catch since June (named Magic) has recently starting bringing around another cat at night. I'm not positive it's a male, but he has the big jowls and head of a tom cat. We call him Rusty. So Magic and Rusty will rub against each other and eat together...

The feral cat who lives in my garden had kittens 8-9 weeks ago. I've finally caught the kittens and they are living in my closed in porch, waiting for an adoption event on Saturday. Fingers crossed they find new homes! Anyway, of the two, one acts like a typical kitten and the other is very...

For the last few months of Willow's life she spent a lot of time in one corner of my bedroom. I gave her her meds and shots and SQFs there. And at the end, I even hand fed her there. She never peed there that I know of and it doesn't smell like anything to me now. The day she died, I had...

I have two kitties: Gus is about 9 years old and weighs (gasp!) 18lbs. Pepper is 12 months and weighs just under 6lbs. She is an abyssinian, small boned and the vet thinks that is a pretty healthy weight for her. He thinks 6.5 would be her max healthy. We started Gus on a diet, actually just...

I know with some pedigreed cats there will be a degree of inbreeding.  Looking at one of my favorite breeders website, she has a breeding listed where the dam and sire have the same father.  Is it common to intentionally do that?  Or more likely it was an accidental pairing? This is one of the...

I often travel oot to visit my mom who is sick.  I don't want to leave Pepper alone for long periods of time, so she goes with me.  It's a 6 hour drive.  I gave her a Composure chew on the advice of my vet on the last trip and she threw up about 2 hours later and was out of sorts for at least a...

I'd love to get an honest opinion on how well my Aby fits the standard, just for curiosity's sake. I'll be back with some pics.

What?!?! Backstory: My Aby kitten was at the emergency vet all night Thursday and my regular vet all day yesterday. She was lethargic, not eating or drinking, not using the litter box and I could tell she felt bad. Thursday at the e-vet her temp was 106.8, very, very high and they could not...

Is there a real difference between the two registries? Some breeders double register their cats, so kittens would be eligible for either, some just register with one. Most breeder I've researched will send the reg. papers after the buyer provides proof of desexing (i know other countries...

I have a 19 week old kitten scheduled for spaying in 3 weeks. The vet really wanted her to be 5lbs but I pushedfor 4lbs because she's barely 3lbs now. We agreed on the end of September as a compromise. I don't want her going into heat at all. Ove the last week, she's changing a bit. ,she's...

I got a kitten in mid-July and she's about to start her third round of medication for parasites. First she had coccidiosis. When I took a stool sample after treatment to be sure it was gone, they found giardiasis. I took in another stool sample on 8/21 and it was clear. Today I took in...

I just scheduled Pepper's spay surgery for September 28. In the paperwork, I have the option to pay $50 for them to use a CO2 surgical laser. The benefits are supposed to be less swelling, less pain, less bleeding and faster recovery. I need to talk to the vet, because I don't quite...

I have a 3.5 month old kitten who needs some help with her litter box habits and grooming. She was with her mom until 12 weeks but she has not learned to cover her poop in the box. She kicks the litter around and digs but it doesn't seem like she's trying to cover, more like she's just...

We got a new kitten a few weeks ago, Pepper, and slowly introduced her to our 8 year old Gus. There was some hissing and fluffy tails but no swats and by day 3 they were sleeping on the same chair. I think the actual intro went quite well. But now Gus seems very depressed. He sleeps more...

So we have a 3 month old kitten who weighs 2lbs 2oz. She's an Abyssinian and judging by her parents, 6ish lbs might be her absolute healthy max. Her mom was about 6, dad was only very slightly bigger. My vet, whom I love, will not spay her until she reaches 5lbs, no matter her age. Vet says...

My sweet Williecat would have been 11 years old this coming Friday, July 27. I remember like yesterday the weekend after 9/11, going to the rescue to pick up my girl. Such a surreal time it was, the world shocked and stunned. She played hard all weekend, then curled up on the sofa with me as...

We got a 12.5 week old Abyssinian kitten about a week ago and I'm wondering when/if she will set her preference for one person in the family. So far, she seems to prefer my 5 year old son who was with me when I picked her up at the breeders house. She will let him pick her up, sit with him and...