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My beloved 11 year old cat was recently diagnosed with lymphoma. He has been on a small amount of steroids every other day for years because of asthma and has done fantastically with it (although it may have masked the lymphoma symptoms for awhile). The vet drastically increased his steroid...

I have a Tomahawk trap that I love and I recently purchased the "kitten screen" for it. It is to keep big cats from triggering it if you are just going after the kittens (I am trying to get the kitten before I get mom). I put the screen into the trap and my concern is that the opening looks...

Hello, I have been trapping using a conventional trap but there are a few cats that I have been trying to trap for quite some time now that will not go into the trap. I am thinking of getting a drop trap. Do you need two people to get the cat out of the drop trap into the transfer cage or can...

Hello, I just needed to vent a bit. There is a short term rental property where I have been feeding and trapping cats for around two years. Normally, people don't stay in it long enough that I have to worry about being caught (I feed and set the trap out for awhile at around 5 am). However...

Hello, I recently purchased the remote control from Tomahawk for my trap. I think it will be very useful. I have been training one of the cats I need to catch to go in the trap (I can't actually trap her because my vet isn't open this weekend and I want to take her right there). She has been...

Hello, I have been attempting to catch some stray cats on my street and get them up to the shelter. The cats live outside and have limited interaction with humans (pretty much me putting food out for them). One of the kittens I caught (probably about 5 months old now) was pretty freaked out...

Hello. I want to give a little bit of background before I get to my current dilemma. About a year ago a kitten started hanging around my house. I put food out but it didn't show up consistently and I assumed it belonged to one of my neighbors. I also thought it was a boy. Wrong! A few...

I am about to start trying to trap some cats that I have been feeding on the way to work in the mornings. The person who is currently renting the house gave me permission to try to trap them because the numbers keep steadily increasing and it is getting out of control. I have spoken with the...

Hello, My cat Cheddar is about 7 years old and was essentially a feral cat. He showed up at my old house when he was a kitten and started hanging around with a neighbors' cat (who eventually became my cat, which was fortunate for him and me). Anyway, I digress. I am the only person who has...

Hello. I have been a member for awhile now and am writing because I am trying to find some help for my sister that lives in Spokane. She has two scruffy looking cats that have been coming around her house for several months now. She sometimes puts food out for them but she has indoor/outdoor...

I just want to thank everyone who posts on here.  It really gives me a boost when I am feeling down.  I had posted previously about having to move my feeding station because the lady who owns the office where I was feeding them left a note to not feed them anymore.  I have moved it to the yard...

Last winter I noticed that a stray cat was hiding under the deck of an office I go by on the way to work (the office is in a house in a residential area).  I started putting food by the edge of the deck on my way to work and told some friends that lived in the area about the cat and gave them my...

I have had company before but it has been for two nights max.  This time my sister and her daughters will be staying for a week.  We will be out of the house most of the day at another relative's house so they will mainly just be sleeping and showering at my house.  I have three cats and they...

My cat Cheddar is about 3 1/2 years old.  A stray cat had him in my neighbor's garage and I fed him for about a year or so outside before taking him in.  While he was outside, I noticed that he would have runny eyes, particularly when it was cold.  That cleared up when I brought him inside. ...

I just caught up with the uproar about the vet in Texas who shot a cat in the head with an arrow and put it on facebook.  Apparently she said something along the lines of "the only good feral cat is a dead feral cat."  There is now some indication that the cat actually belonged to a neighborhood...

Hi all.  I had posted before the holidays about my cat and the involuntary leg movement he had developed.  The xrays, ultra sound, blood work and urinalysis didn't show anything that would seem to cause the leg issues.  I decided to just wait and see if it got better or worse.  Well it now seems...

I had started a thread the other day about my cat, Stilton, having muscle spasms in his back legs.  The ultra sound and xrays didn't show anything unusual in his leg or back.  The vet got the bloodwork back yesterday and it shows that he might be hyperglycemic (glucose 256).  It also shows...

I am hoping to take my cat to the vet today but wanted to see if anyone here had some insight into his issue.  It started on Saturday as near as I can tell.  We went to bed and he curled up by me as usual and then he started obsessively licking his back leg and it was like it was having a spasm...

I trapped a stray I had been feeding and gave him to a friend a few weeks ago.  He is a wonderful cat and she and her husband have really become fond of him.  I had started feeding him wet food, with the thought it was better for him, so she kept on doing wet.  A week or so after getting him, he...

This might not be the right place to post this but I have a question regarding my Da Bird toy.  My cats love it and have pretty much decimated the feather thing.  I have replacements but can't figure out how to get the hook thing (has gold thing that seems to slid?) to unhook so I can put the...