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Two months ago, my partner and I had five cats and a dog.  Two of the cats were mine before we moved in together, the other three cats and the dog were hers.  A little over a year ago, we merged our two groups into one big (mostly) happy family. Odo "Odafin" was our little old man.  I adopted...

A couple of times in the last week, I've received emails that have links that I can't get to--when I click on them, I receive the following message: Insufficient PermissionsYour account does not have the required permissions to access this page. Any ideas?  I've tried to search for the titles...

I haven't posted about my own kitties in a while, and I'm hoping someone might have some feedback or experience that can help. Odo is my senior kitty. He's at least 14, but probably more like 17 years old. For the last year or so, he's been throwing up. At first it was occasional, but now...

I used to feed my boys both wet and dry, and they both seemed to tolerate it fine. Due to my work schedule, I had switched to just dry. Now when I try give my younger cat (who is about 4-5 years old) canned food, he vomits. I've tried very small amounts of a few different canned foods, and...

I'm trying to decide what to try next. My two male cats (one is about 3 years old and the other is about 16 years old) produce the most foul smelling odors. They share a litter box, and I do believe both of them are contributing to the smell. They have had problems with loose stools in the...

The person I'm dating has two cats, both female, and I have two male cats. Because she lives in a very small space, her two cats have been staying with me. They are not fond of my boys, though, and I'm looking for more ideas on convincing them to get along. The girls are kept separate from...

I picked up my friend after work tonight (well, really this morning since her shift ends at 3:15 a.m.) and we decided to go to IHOP. When we arrived, there was a guy out front holding the most adorable black and white kitten. I figured the kitten belonged to him, and we went inside. While in...

I'm considering switching cat foods, but I'd love to hear other opinions before I do so. My boys currently get California Natural dry and alternate between Wellness and Natural Balance for the canned food. They split a can of food each day (1/4 each twice per day) and they get a small amount...

My younger kitty smells funny--like mint. Actually, the smell reminds me of herbal flea collars (my parents used them on the pets 20 years ago, before we knew they were bad). I've never used a flea collar on my cats, so I can't imagine how he could have gotten the smell on him. It isn't...

I've got two cats--Zek is about 2.5 years old, and Odo is probably around 15 years old. I work long, weird hours, and I know that the boys get hungry when I'm gone for more than half the day. They also have a tendency to wake me up between 30 minutes and 2 hours before I intend to get up much...

A couple of hours ago, I noticed Zek whizzing past me with a real mouse in his mouth. He dropped it in the computer room, and I've been in here ever since trying to catch the darned thing. The first couple of times I brought Zek into the room, he flushed it out, but I wasn't fast enough to...

I posted briefly about Odo here, but I figured he needed his own thread. The vet and I noticed the lump on him a few months ago, but it just seemed like a fatty lump. Odo tends to be a lumpy boy (he has a big lump on his belly that has been there since before I adopted him in June 2006--we...

I woke up this morning to the sound of my cats having breakfast. While that might be nice for some, in my case, it meant they fed themselves. Zek has been very pick lately with his food--some days he'll eat it and some days he just looks at me like I'm nuts. As a result, I have a few cat food...

Last Saturday, I took both Odo and Zek to the vet; Odo's eye was watering and Zek needed one more recheck on his bloodwork (he previously had a high white cell count, which we treated with antibiotics (see his history here)--and we wanted to confirm that it had stayed low after waiting another...

Zekkie just loves to create havoc. I put out the cat fountain for him a few days ago. He promptly knocked the plant off the shelf, spraying dirt everywhere (including the fountain). Today, I went to clean up the fountain and realized there was something missing--the filter. I'm sure I put it...

In mid-October, I adopted a young (about 2 years old) DMH cat from a local shelter. We did blood work on his first vet visit, which indicated that his white blood cells were high (specifically neutrophils, monocytes, and eosinophils). He was developing a kitty cold, so we figured the values were...

Ever since Willow passed, Odo and I have been lonely. I've been to the shelter twice now as well as looking at their website to see if anyone jumps out at me. There are a couple that stand out. One is younger than I was really looking for (2.5 years) and has had problems with spraying when he...

I've said goodbye to my baby girl. I adopted her from Heartland Humane Society at the beginning of my sophomore year in college. She was about 9 months to a year old at the time. She loved playing in my hair, and rubbing her chin on my shoulder. As she grew up, she stopped playing in my hair...

I didn't see any other posts here about their recall. I haven't fed it myself, but I wanted to be sure anyone who does feed it knows that their Lite dry cat food has been recalled as precaution pending further testing. The information about the recall, including item numbers for recalled...

Odo meows a lot. He has since shortly after I brought him home last year, and I understand that that is just how he is. What I don't quite get is why he screams when I'm in the shower. I don't close my bathroom door since I live alone and the cats are used to being able to wander in...