Recent Content by dottiemaggie

Well, my first goal was to reach 130 before my family vacation back to PEI.... And this morning guess what the scale read?! I'm going to give it another week before I try on the shorts (that fit last year when I was 130...and their lack of fitting this year inspired the weight loss) - make...

similar to your story about the Siamese... my kitten tristan, shortly after I finally brought him home from the hospital, came up to me meowing his head off one day. I didn't know what was up, tried petting him, playign with him... he was not happy. Until finally I picked him up. He sat on my...

is what a persian? .maggie

My kitty routine presently goes like this: get up about 8am, 8:30am (at the latest... Tristan will make a huge pest of himself if I try to sleep in..) and give my boys their dry kibble (1 1/2 cup scoop mature formula in one bowl, 1 1/2 cup scoop of weight control each into 2 other bowls...

Get him shaved and start from scratch - once the fur starts growing back in, brush him regularly to prevent the mats from coming back. Depending on how quickly the matts start to form you can decide how often to brush him every 3rd day, every other day, every day..whatever it takes!) If the...

I think maybe you have been underestimating them I think cats are great little thinkers/problem solvers. For example, my cat Charlie escaped one day (I didn't know, a housemate's careless guest had let him out!!) and he let us know he was outside and wanted back in by throwing himself at the...

they are amazing about being handled! I actually found it hard to believe how difficult they were rumoured to be when they were found - Goose (the one who was put on rabies quaratine) was the most cuddly and affectionate one once they arrived at my house Rottweiller purrs as soon as touch him...

The vet I worked for (who would spay no matter how far along - though once we were told a shelter cat was not far a long and she was ready to pop 'em out, so we kept her.... but normally he goes ahead and spays them) would charge about $36 extra (canadian) for pregnant cats. (or obese cats, or...

Kumbulu - they do have free choice kibble. The Humane Society gave me the instructions to have dry kibble out for them at all times, as that is how they were fed there (they lived in the bathroom at the shelter for a few days) They also gave me several cans of kitten food, so I've been giving...

I'm glad to hear you're getting a vet to look at this - certainly a troubling thing to see Something like that would be hard to guess at by a photo. I've never seen such a thing on any of my own cats...I'm trying to think back to the clinic I worked in back in Ottawa...and the only thing that...

Definitley shut mum cat up with her kittens and give her a chance. I've known a mum or two her don't appear to be really into the whole "mum" thing, one in particular didn't give a rat's arse if I took all her babies, or if one fell out of the "nest" and cried. And she'd often try to walk away...

Just feel like adding my 2 cents... I am not quite as anti-declaw as some, as for the most part I have seen countless cats recover quickly, with little side effects, and minimal medication. However, I have found that I have been fortuate to work for a vet who is very skilled at declawing, which...

Well, the past week has been crazy in my house - on top of my 3 boys, I've had 3 feral kittens to care for! I volunteer at my local Humane Society and as there's only 2 of us spending the summer in a 4 bedroom house, I offered to be a foster volunteer as well - and was soon offered 4 little 6...

I have three 7 week old foster kittens who think climbing up my back and sitting on my shoulders is the funnest thing since poucning on each other's tails They play "king of the castle" on my back when I sit down in their room But one of them, Rottweiller (he's a Manx X and all black, and he...

Well, after my first week of Weigth Watchers I lost 2lbs! Disovered though, we were overestimating the points value for a number of things (thanks CreepyOwl! :hug: ) and yesterday I had so much to celebrate, I threw points out the window for a day...and may have gone a *bit* overboard (4 points...