Recent Content by coquelicot

Sorry if I missed this but have you tried letting out a high-pitched squeal when she claws you? I do that with my cats, and they seem to understand that means, "you're hurting me - please stop."

Funnily enough, the show Doctor Who has a planet full of anthropomorphic cat nurses! OP, I'm glad she was there for you. There have been times when I was severely distressed/depressed and our Anya cat often liked to place a single paw on my arm and lie near me as if to say, "There, there...

I'm thinking the issue is the Fancy Feast. They act like it's crack. They spend hours fiending for it, and Anya will worry about her next "fix" even though often when I give it to her, she won't eat it. It's as if she just feels better that it's there but then it will sit and get gross.

I don't give in to her demands though - I just lie in bed for hours trying to get to sleep. I don't feed her until about 30 minutes after I've waken up and taken care of my own stuff. I feed them both three times a day at set times unless they're yowling at me at those times. Then I wait until...

So I recently switched my cats over to a wet food only diet. Our older cat, Anya, has been on this diet before and had the same problem I'm about to describe. The issue is that her behavior becomes absolutely intolerable. We feed them three times a day and most of the time she doesn't even...

It's been great to watch this thread unfold. I'm glad you decided to keep Ziggy - I had a feeling you would. Cats have a way of growing on you! I also echo what other people said about cats reflecting our attitudes/personalities back on us so your stress could've caused Ziggy to feel even more...

That's fantastic! Talk about a dream job (though, like all jobs, I'm sure it gets tiring too). I can't wait to transfer from my current college to a university so I can start taking Russian lessons again. My goal is to be able to read Dostoevsky's work in the original language. The subject of...

Good news: she is eating her dry food now, but refuses to touch the wet food. I checked the skin on her neck, and it's still normal so I think she's getting enough fluids. Sometimes she's just really picky about her wet food so I'm about to give her a different flavor. She meowed a bit today...

That's what happened between my older spayed cat Anya and the unneutered stray we took in, Alexei. I was really concerned about their rough housing at first, but then I read something online about how to tell when it's dangerous. The fact is, neither was drawing blood or yowling in pain. Anya...

I think I'd just about die if I saw both of our cats doing the slow motion slap at once. For us it's just the one. I cannot help but lose it when I see it - really looks like they're filming some slow motion action sequence for a movie. And thanks! I named my first proper cat (first one I owned...

hexiesfriend, sorry for the miscommunication - I meant that normally she runs around like a bat out of hell but didn't do it this morning. I gave her some wet food but she only ate a little bit of it. She gagged while eating it. Now she's lying down in the closet in a cool, dark area. I pinched...

Yeah it does sound like someone took her in. You just reminded me that I need to put the collar back on the youngest who is indoor/outdoor. It does sound like jealousy issues to me. I'm dealing with the same thing myself. My oldest cat will actually slap the youngest one if she finds me paying...

Well I don't mean throwing it at them, just in an area next to them as a distraction. As insane as this may sound, the fact that there has been no blood drawn suggests your cats have pretty good self-control despite the current situation! And oh yeah I believe it - cats are survivors and are...

Just my luck. Yesterday Anya's meow started becoming more and more hoarse until eventually she'd open her mouth and no meow would escape it or at least now a full meow. Since then I've seen her appear to gag about three times. She has been incredibly lethargic. Usually she wakes us all up in the...

Haha, yes! Our Anya is the queen bee around here (I say that, but she doesn't have a bad attitude or anything) and likes things in order. It is rather hilarious when she "beats him up," which is of course over-dramatizing it since it seems rather playful. She likes to bop Alexei up side the head...