Recent Content by betty ann

It's not the scratching that's the problem with Dinah at ALL. She loves scratching her scratching post, and doesn't scratch the furniture... it's KNEADING. That is what is tearing up my furniture and bedding. She does all of scratching at the scratching post and just loves it, but when she's...

Oh, I have absolutely no intention of declawing my cats. My fiance's two cats were declawed when they (and he) were young, so I don't think he really understood how horrible it was until I explained it to him. I think he's been reading about it some lately, as well, so maybe that has helped...

Well, my kitty Dinah has an ongoing problem. She kneads... a LOT. I don't mind, because she is doing it because she is happy. But she also has very sharp little claws which leave me scratched to pieces, as well as the couch!! We recently got a new (expensive) comforter for our bed, and she...

We just moved into a house with new faucets that she can pull forward. She turns it on and plays under there... and she even turns it off when she's done! So responsible. She loves water, though; I give her baths every Friday (she was taken from her mommy too soon and never learned to clean...

Unfortuantely, the problems started before that, but they've just been getting progressively worse. The vet was told about the problems, but didn't find anything at all wrong with her. She's really healthy! I think she might be getting a little bit of arthritis because it's harder for her to...

My neurotic kitty Cheshire has done that twice, because of anxiety. I left him for two days, and he totally flipped out and did it to his entire leg. The vet suggested kitty prozac for him, but it's really expensive. I got him a kitten instead (yes, a cat for my cat!), and he hasn't done it...

That is so cute!! I love kittens. Luckily, I have a cat that I don't think will ever get past the kitten stage... Dinah also sleeps in the sink! She likes to turn on the water and play in it, though. Hilarious (even though it hurts my water bill)

My fiance's cat, Tiger, has been acting very strangely lately. A little background: She is fifteen years old and in excellent health. She has lived with my fiance's parents her entire life (and still does) with another cat and a dog, who both recently passed away (last year). Lately, she's...

Thanks for the suggestion!! I dabbed it a little with the water/peroxide mix this morning, but I really think I'm overreacing now. It doesn't seem nearly so bad as it did when I first noticed it!

::Stands up:: I will freely admit that I do not scoop the box every single day. Call me a bad mommy all you want, but we're all very happy here. My kitties have an ENORMOUS box, and they just don't seem to poo that much! I scoop every other day and everyone's perfectly happy. Actually...

I don't think there's any way to make cats do that sort of thing; they're just either like that or not, naturally. But it's really a nature vs. nurture issue. He sounds just affectionate enough as it is; I don't think you should try to make him overly dependent on you. If you need that much...

This is probably a stress thing. I adopted my Cheshire Cat when he was about a year old, and he was severely neurotic, to the point that the animal shelter tried to discourage me from adopting him. He started doing licking hair off his legs when I was away from home during the day. Eventually...

Yea, this is a pretty gross conversation!! But Cheshire can be kind of gross sometimes. lol I'm probably freaking out over nothing... I used to have outdoor cats who came home with bigger wounds all the time, and they were always fine. I also had parents who refused to take cats to the vet...

My fiance asked me the same thing, but I'm sure that I didn't. I cut his hair pretty often on his backside because it gets kind of icky, and I'm always very careful. I double checked him after his hair cut to make sure I didn't cut him (I always double check, even though he just wants to run...

Thanks! It's really more of a scrape type of thing. This is kind of gross but... it looks like he bit the skin and then pulled it back a little bit, so there's a little skin flap hanging over an area smaller than the size of my pinky fingernail. Ick. Can you suggest an antibiotic ointment?