I have been prescribed idoxuridine for a likely feline herpes eye infection. I used it three times a day for a month, and symptoms more or less disappeared, but the vet (a feline eye specialist) wants me to continue treatment twice a day for a month and then once a day for a month. My cat...
My 8 year old BSH has been shaking her head for a couple of months now. Some scratching, not much. She seems especially sensitive in her right ear. She has been checked for infection and mites. She had a mild outer ear infection and was treated with antibiotics (that she hated!). No change...
I am not an expert, but I understand that many experts dispute the AVMA/AAHA recommendations and believe that vaccinations in adult cats are unnecessary. If you do vaccinate, to avoid sarcomas at the injection site, use only live non-adjuvanted vaccines. If your vet disputes this last...
Here's a variation on the much-asked question by comforting cats in new surroundings: What do you think the best methods for reducing fear and nerves in cats that are recently introduced to a shelter? The next two days I'll be "cat cuddling" and adopting out three adults and two kittens. They...
This food is 289 calories/cup, far less than 600. I can't quite believe that my cat is supposed to survive on a quarter of that per day. Maybe it's twice a day. She's about 12 pounds now, and the vet thinks should be 8 pounds, so I would think that about 145 calories per day would lead to...
My cat is only about three years old, but probably about 3-4 pounds overweight. My vet has suggested slowly moving her over to 1/2 cup per day of this dry food. Yes, I know all the issues with dry food, but I would like to hear opinions on this specific weight loss method and reasonable...
I should have been clearer. These are shelter kittens. I have noticed that kittens seem to have more soft stool problems than adults and wondered if canned foods were the reason. These cats are fed mostly dry food (Science Diet primarily), but receive small "treats" of canned food twice a...
Is there any relationship between wet, canned food and soft stools in kittens? I know there are foods designed for cats with soft stools, but I would like to know if eating canned food contributes to softer stools.
I know others probably won't agree, but I propose treating her as a "community cat" until her owner shows up. I would have her spayed and then returned to her neighborhood. This cat should not be running around breeding and making new cats. We have plenty already.
I hope someone with more experience would respond to this situation. I'm not that familiar with the problem, but what the heck. I suspect the female never learned not to use her claws when playing. You can still train her by playing with her with a toy and rewarding her when she plays without...
This is a silly little question: My 3-year old British Shorthair (and I suspect other cats) plays with little soft balls that she can bat around easily. Sometimes, usually at night, she picks one up and carries it around, meowing loudly. She carries it to near where my wife or I am and drops...
We don't refrigerate the butter (except when the thermometer goes way up). My wife can't stand hard butter. It's probably a very unhealthy habit, so refrigerate the cat food.
I'm not a canned food fanatic, but you might want to take away the kibble when you feed canned food. Also, give her only as much canned food as she will eat at a sitting (or maybe two). You're right about leaving wet food out too long. I feed my cat a small amount of canned food that she...
As I said, "WET" is better, but dry is not merely convenient for guardians. Most cats clearly like it too. If you want trouble, try leaving wet food out all day. I can't believe how militant the anti-dry food people are. You want quotes. Here's one: "Cats on dry food-only diets are...
As others have suggested it's pretty hard to over feed a kitten. They need a lot! Otherwise wet is better but dry is convenient and works for cats that like to grade. IMO some on this site are a little too hard on dry.
How do you guarantee that homemade foods are balanced properly? I have the usual concerns with commercial anything, but the good commercial foods seem to be well balanced.
Our organization does all these things. We have a three page application form, followed by an interview with a counselor, followed by a session of paperwork in which all the details of adopting a cat are discussed. I'm sure all this attention to detail helps connect people with pets, but in...