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    Do female cats not like making eye contact?

    So I have a boy and a girl, littermates raised together as tiny kittens, and they are both very comfortable with me but one thing they have always done since young is that the boy will make direct eye contact with me all the time, but the female refuses. If she really wants attention, she'll...
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    Are Long Hairs really THAT much more work than Short Hairs?

    We have two domestic shorthairs, and luckily they are very low maintenance and brushing them seems to almost be optional and once a week is more than enough. We are thinking of adding two new kittens to our family, and are debating between shorthair (my preference) and longhair (SOs...
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    Cats - The Next Generation

    We adopted two kittens, siblings, 14 years ago and they are perfectly raised and I have zero complaints and the two are true cuddle bugs and the female adores the male and he tolerates being groomed and snuggled relentlessly by her. While it was some work at fist, for years I'm always amazed at...
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    Blacklight Fright!

    So I thought the house was immaculate, and we even have three fancy robot vacuums that vacuum different sections of the house daily... until I just tried out our new ultra powerful blacklight. Well, over the years all those little hairballs or occasional food barfs that I thought I cleaned up...
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    My cat's cure for IBD - Tylan

    Long story short, we have one cat with chronic diarrhea and vomiting, even though sharing same food, water, beds, etc with other cat that is perfectly healthy. We tried all kinds of special diets, but nothing truly did the trick although symptoms were least extreme with "Royal Canin Veterinary...
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    Cat-safe Recliner Suggestion

    I originally purchased a traditional static L-shaped couch for the living room when adopting the cats, as I feared the recliner we had with all its slicing linkages was just a nightmare waiting to happen with kittens running about. However, I really miss having recliner couches and a recliner...
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    Young Again Lid Zero Mature (hydrolyzed Pork) Vs Royal Canin Hp (hydrolyzed Soy)

    One of the cats diagnosed w/ IBD. He was, reasonably successfully, prescribed a shot of steroids and "Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Feline Hydrolyzed Protein Adult HP Dry Cat Food". Its $60 for 7lbs, but so far the only thing that was successful after trying rabbit, beef, fish, duck protein...
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    Poor Kitty - Russian Salon Turns Cats into Dragons

    That does look pretty cool, although I can't imagine how the poor kitty must have felt enduring that treatment, heh!   I believe they are using food coloring. 
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    10mg Amitriptyline - Freakish behavior

    One of my cats recently developed crystals in his urine as well as blood.   He experienced no behavioral changes, except that he made tiny puddles of red tinted urine outside the litterbox, so of course I rushed him to the vet.   The vet prescribed a dietary change as well as Amitriptyline. I...
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    Nature's Variety Raw Instinct Bites

    Quick question regarding Nature's Variety Raw Bites if anyone is in the know;  previously I was able to get large bags of Bites that are listed as appropriate for BOTH cats and dogs. Now I see that they no longer market this way, and have dog Bites and cat Bites. The dog Bites variety...
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