Recent Content by boris

Also, mother cats will kill or eat some of their young if there is something wrong with them and they have to choose between focusing on the healthy kittens vs. feeding kittens who she thinks won't make it. It probably wasn't you handing them (otherwise she would have done all 5), but maybe her...

My cat *points to user name* used to love Merrick's but after six months or so of eating it without problems, he started getting pickier and pickier about which flavors he would eat. Boris rejection of Merrick's might have coincided with hairball troubles (which have gone away since I started...

My cat fetches, but he only does that for my husband, and only with a fuzzy toy ball he really likes. With me, he just stares at me throwing the ball blankly, and then grabs the feather wand with his mouth and drags in onto the couch ("no mommy, you only get to play with this one"). This is...

Well, it sounds like the spraying seems to be headed for behavioral, and he might be doing this for as long as there are other cats around to fight over territory with. He might have to be an only cat It'd be hard to place him at first, but if you can keep him sequestered from the other cats to...

Yeah, unfortunately all it takes is one flea, and fleas can live in carpets for a long time. They will on occasion also hide on clothes and shoes of people they come in contact with if desperate. My cat came home flea free, to an apartment that was supposedly flea free (or so we were told, they...

One more thing. When a vet does routine de-worming for a kitten, those dewormers are actually for round worms, heart worms, and the like. Dewormers for tapeworms (which are parasitic worms carried by fleas - so if your kitten was exposed to fleas and ate the fleas while grooming, he might have...

With Boris it was like that every day he was on clamavox when he had a URI. They're gonna be lower activity period while they are getting over their cold. The good news is that once they are done with the meds, they'll more than make up for it. As long as they are eating, they'll be fine. It's...

It could even be a stray that hangs around outside your building. Some cats can be overly sensitive about this stuff all it would take is for Jag to get a whiff of the other cat's smell for his aggression to start. If the vet rules out an illness for Taz, try something like a feliway plug-in...

Are they spayed yet? Because spaying might just be what they need to calm down a bit. Spayed cats are generally less territorial than unspayed ones. But if that doesn't work? Maybe one of them is just one of those cats that would do well as solo cats. In that case, you could find someone who...

I got my cat to tolerate claw clipping by: a) handling his paws very often: they get stroked, and held, and kissed whenever he cuddles with me or my husband. He used to recoil at having his paws touched, but nowadays understands it is another way that his humans show him love, so he lets us...

Pami, the other poster was saying if people were told by the vet that declawing their cat would cause them drastic and destructive personality changes that would magnify if not introduce new problems, they might change their tunes about "not wanting to try this other stuff that might or might...

Perhaps lazy was not the best word I could have used. Unlike some breeds that are high energy and always about (bengals come to mind), DSH are very goal driven, psychologically speaking. According to the couple of Cat Fancier Association profiles I've read, DSH in this country were originally...

No glitch, the vet might have been telling you your cat is carrying the weight well. You go by how much the ribs are palpable, not the scale per se. My vet told me when my cat was a kitten that he should weigh no more than 10 lbs. as an adult, but at his last checkup she went back on it and said...

I agree wholeheartedly. I was just trying to politely point out that suggesting that a declaw is appropriate in this case is especially misguided. As I mentioned, I'd rather let even a kitten rip my furniture to shreds rather than declaw them. It's just furniture, I can buy more if I get tired...

I would like to point out that while a kitten might be able to tolerate a declaw without much of a loss for quality of life (that said I'd rather let any cat of mine rip my furniture to shreds before I'd go that route), to declaw an adult cat is horribly cruel, because they have been using their...