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  1. chiarabab

    Anyone ever tried LED collars?

    Due to a big change in our lives and living situation, we decided to let our (male, neutered) cat Fletcher become an inside/outside cat. I don't want to start a huge debate about this, as we are quite paranoid about our cats' safety and well being, and it was an overthought and overanalyzed and...
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    Dear European members, what's the cheapest-but-decent wet wet food I can buy on Zooplus?

    For anyone who doesn't know it, Zooplus is an e-commerce exclusively for pet food, tools and accessories. We use it a lot for our two cats, as it allows us to order in bulk and save a lot of money through deals and prices that are generally lower than in the shops (check out the German website...
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    Help! Big change in eating habits

    Hi everyone, once again I have to turn to you for advice concerning my two cats: Barnaby (14 months old, male, neutered, tiny sized) and Fletcher (18 months old, male, neutered, big boned  Fletcher: The lovely couple:
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    Furminator, which one is the best?

    Hi everyone! Once again I'm in need of your amazing advice! I have two cats, male, both shed like it's going out of fashion. They are both young, about one year old: one, the oldest and the one we adopted earlier, is a black longhair. The second one a white shorthair. As you can imagine, we...
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    What do you look for in a cat adoption website?

    The volunteer who rescued our second kitten Barnaby has now founded her own rescue group. Me and my boyfriend are a little short on money right now (he is between jobs), so we cannot make a donation, but she told us once that managing everything through facebook is hard and I offered to design a...
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    Should I feed them less?

    Hi everyone! As some of you may know, I have two male, neutered cats: Fletcher, who is a little over one year old, and Barnaby, 10 months old. Recently they stopped eating as much as they used to. They eat wet food three times a day, and usually they devour everything in a matter of minutes...
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    Heat wave + longhair cat = problems!

    Hi everyone,  I hope you all are well :) It's been a while since the last time I posted, and once again... I am in need of advice! :D My Fletcher is a longhair. Last year he was still a kitten, so less fur. Now, however, he's all grown up and fluffy as hell! We live in Italy and summer is...
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    "Dry" fur?

    Hello everyone! Today my boyfriend took the kitties to the vet (two neutered males: Fletcher, 1yo, black longhair, and Barnaby, 8mo, white shorthair) for a checkup, since they both had symptoms related to calicivirus in the past. They are both well, but apparently the vet made an observation...
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    I know, no breed, I just want to show off my smiling kitten!

    Some of you may remember the diary I kept here when we introduced Barnaby (the white one) to Fletcher (the black one). They are best friends now and I am completely in love with Barnaby. He's the sweetest thing. Now I 100% know he has no breed in him, he's a former stray, saved from a flood...
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    Sad or sick?

    I'm afraid Fletcher is not feeling well :( he's – for those who don't know him – a 10 months old male, neutered, longhair. Approximately 1 week ago he vomited a few times, but that didn't worry me much because despite the vomiting he was acting normal. Since then, however, he seems more and more...
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    Colour definition and genetics of a black (?) longhair cat

    Sorry if I keep asking questions about the same two cats guys These are all taken in broad daylight but in the last one is more visible how his hair has a lighter, warmer tone on his chest and belly. If you enlarge the picture you can notice some ligher grey hair on his mane and back legs...
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    Breed personality

    Hello! I'm relatively new to the cat world and I do not own any pedigree cat nor I plan to have any for the next 15 years at least (I have two moggies that I adore and find incredibly beautiful: two is my limit and since they are still kittens I hope not to lose them sooner than that, plus I...
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    What's inside your "cat care box"?

    Happy new year everyone! This morning I decided to reorganize the tin box where I keep all the tools related to the care and grooming of my cats, and I got curios of how other people keep their stuff, what they have, and why. In my "cat box" I have: Treats! The box is quite noisy when opened...
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    Fast kitten introduction: a diary

    So, I'll start this by stating that I hope this will turn out to be a very short account of what happens :D If it is, it means that everything went well. Short premise: We (me and boyfriend, living in a small apartment in Milan, Italy) have a 9 months old kitten, a neutered male, named...
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    Adopting a second cat: success stories

    I apologize for any spelling/grammar mistake as english is not my first language AND I'm typing from my phone. We are about to adopt a 5 months old male kitten as a companion for our 8 months old resident kitten (also male). We really think that this will improve both his life an ours (double...
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    Automatic feeders for more than one cat: how does it work?

    So, we'll be adding a second kitten to our family in a month, and I'm starting to plan and worry about the practical things. Fletcher, our current cat (neutered male, 8 months old, very fluffy) eats wet food 4 times a day: early morning,lunch,evening (about 7pm)and night (about midnight, right...
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    Shorthair, longhair, medium hair, upside-down hair...

    Sooo... As I explained here, we are about to adopt a feline friend for Fletcher, and I think we have found the one. He's a 5 months old white kitten, a rescue from a flooded region (the area I grew up in, actually, so I feel a bit of a bond). Some of you may know that I already own a longhair...
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    Introducing a second cat in a small apartment, I NEED your advice!

    Hi everyone! Last summer i posted here to ask you if there are alternatives to slow introduction since I wanted to give my then-4-months-old Fletcher a kitten companion. You were so kind and useful that I now want to ask for your advice again, since in a month we'll be adopting our second cat. ...
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    Scratching on doors: separation anxiety or spoiled kitten?

    Hi everyone! Our Fletcher is an 8 month old neutered male, and we had him since he was a tiny thing of 6 weeks old. He is our only cat and our first yet. He's always been one of those super-attached and affectionate kittens, never more than a few meters away from us and almost always in the...
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    PKD in persians: can it be prevented?

    Hi everyone. Please forgive me for the long message and for my bad english: I'm italian and I need a lot more words to get my point across :)  My beloved Fletcher has almost surely some persian background: when I decided to get a kitten (my first one) I read everything on how to properly take...
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