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  1. bastfriend

    Need cat airport travel experience advice!

    Hi all, soon I may be traveling by air checking my two cats as baggage.   They are both too big to go under the seat in the cabin and I have no option to leave them at home as I'm moving.   It's been many years since I did this but when I last did in 2005, the TSA made me take both cats out of...
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    cat acting like another cat is in the house but no cat

    Hi all, so my Big Guy was asleep next to me and he startles awake and runs around the living room sniffing the air switching his tail.   He even ran under the sofa a few times.  For the next 30 minutes he patrols my apartment sniffing acting like some other animal is in here.    I have another...
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    need advice possible ringworm on feral cat

    Okay deleting my first version of this as I was hysterical.    There's spot on my Big Guy's cheekbone that looks very much like ringworm.   I can  handle him just fine but my other indoor kitty is his feral mother who cannot be pilled or restrained in any way.   I'm really worried about what I'm...
  4. bastfriend

    claw trimming and aging feral

    Hi all, this is about an indoor feral kitty but I'm putting it in this section because I want more general advice.    My cat Patches is ten years old and I am lucky if I can get her to the vet once a year because it requires extreme measures to get her there.    I took her inside as an adult...
  5. bastfriend

    Letting Hercules go

    Hi everyone, I've debated a bit about whether or not to post I am still so sad about it all, but you've all been such wonderful support during this journey of mine with Hercules.    He's been missing now for a month, the most he ever left before was for a week and I've tried to hold out hope...
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    Cats upset by move

    Hi everyone, looking for advice here I just moved apartments with my two cats after being in one place for six years.    It was a short move nearby so they didn't have to spend any stressful time traveling, and they had easily done a much harder move six years ago.   But this time they are...
  7. bastfriend

    Does it ever get easier?

    I lost my dear Domino a little over three years ago and today I showed someone a picture of a group of my cats with the intention of showing her one of my still living cats and she asked who Domino was.   The grief hit me like lightening and I almost broke down and cried right there - I had to...
  8. bastfriend

    Aaaargh children!

    So I think I've found out why Hercules has gone on his most recent walkabout - three pre-teen boys have taken to playing the bushes near where I believe he hangs out most of the time - this is a little ways a away from where I feed him but close enough to still hear them.    It is so...
  9. bastfriend

    the angst of letting them go

    So I've started in earnest to find another outdoor home for Hercules and it's so hard.   I want to find an option for him that is perfect and safe, but there are no guarantees especially for an outdoor cat.   Someone just answered an ad for him and I don't have details yet, but from what I can...
  10. bastfriend

    Do neutered feral males reform?

    Hi all, so yet again I heard a brief noise of cat fighting at 2am.   Last time was two weeks ago.  And two weeks ago someone, probably Hercules the one feral I feed also sprayed on my front door!   I TNR'd him back in December - he was a fully grown tom by then.  I haven't seen any other cat for...
  11. bastfriend

    Fighting cats and stress!

    So just now I heard yowls of a cat fight out near the feeding area.   A couple months ago this was a problem, so I limited the time the food was down to three hours a day when the main cat Hercules would know to find it.  There's no food down there at night.   This seemed to mostly work though...
  12. bastfriend

    Advice on the mystery feeder?

    Hi everyone, needing a little advice.   So my potential moving day approaches - currently planning end of May.   I begin to suspect that there may be a second person feeding feral cats somewhere nearby because Hercules disappears sometimes and comes back and seems fine.  There is a second cat...
  13. bastfriend

    Initial feral indoor reactions?

    Hi all, I was wondering in that initial phase when you bring an outdoor feral indoors for socialization in either a small room or a crate, how likely are they to howl non-stop?   To flail about and try to destroy things?    I know this can happen because it did to me in the past and I gave up -...
  14. bastfriend

    Elderly feral cats

    As Patches my indoor feral enters her tenth year, I wonder how her old age will be.   While her vet visit was a success, the blood work shows no problems yet she's skinny and lower energy than she used to be.  But then maybe that's normal aging.  I worry about whether I'll be able to provide her...
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    Update on Patches

    So at long last Patches my indoor feral has had her vet visit!   I was able to trap her in the Trucatch trap.   And now you better believe I'll try to get some sedatives to have on hand for next time.    She had two painful resorbing teeth that had to be extracted so I'm really glad this was...
  16. bastfriend

    How did you find your vet for ferals?

    The group in my area that does the low-cost TNR's doesn't do regular vet care.   My own vet has said they are willing to, but have grown impatient with my cancellations as I've had so much trouble catching Patches.    I have an upcoming appointment for Patches and they tried to cancel on me...
  17. bastfriend

    oh the irony

    So today I ran into an acquaintance who I know lives in a rural area outside the city - I asked her if she knew of anyone who might want a barn cat.   Barely before the words were out of my mouth she was telling me of her neighbor who has twenty cats breeding out of control!   I gave her the...
  18. bastfriend

    yowling in the night

    The last couple of nights I've heard what I think are cats yowling in the night in the woods next to my apartment.   I've gone out a couple times to see if a cat's desperate by where I put the food and mad cause I took it up, but see no one.   What do you all think?   I'm worried this means...
  19. bastfriend

    How often do you feed your ferals?

    I have circumstances that make leaving the food out for about three hours a day my best option, but I worry that might leave the cats really hungry the rest of the time.   So I thought I'd start a new thread!    To find out do you guys think my current plan will work out and just generally how...
  20. bastfriend

    Need vibes for Hercules

    He's gone missing!    He's been so faithful either being right there waiting or definitely eating his food (and burying it) every day for four months now.   He's been gone two days now and so worried about him.    I know I've got to toughen up and not worry so much but this feral cat thing is...
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