Recent Content by eggie o'geggie

At least I didn't get banned for spamming like I did when making a similar post on Pets.ca I guess it'll be up to me to review the product (the more expensive one), after I hemorrhage what will probably amount to 500CAD after currency exchange and tax >:( I hate new technology, but I love my cats

I'm looking at Amazon reviews for the Loc8tor Pet and it seems to me that the most common complaint is about range. I live in a rural but very wooded area, and I'd be really annoyed if I couldn't locate my cat 80' away when the product boasts 400' (under ideal conditions). I'm wondering if the...

Wow! Months! I would have thought that if it takes that long, you just get an end to the hissing and an on-set of begrudging tolerance, not companionship. I guess I took the report of Sequoia's amiability with strange cats at the kennel too optimistically. If this doesn't work out, I have to...

Some cats will never fully adapt to sharing space w/another cat. I had one such cat, and she was never happy until the newcomer ran away. If a cat hasn't adapted by what date do you know she never will? Sequoia is a spayed 20-month-old female, who had been w/Bonsai since she was a baby...

I'm not intending to select kittens based on colour. I'm going to keep them indoors until they are old enough. I'm also going to take them to the vet and have all their shots, flea preventions and neuterings. Speaking of the vet, after I made an inspection of the building, I visited the...

You can make some pretty good arguments as to why one should keep cats indoors, but their happiness isn't among of them. If my next cat does not find a great deal of wonder and fulfillment from the outside, she'll be my first (they can become complacent as indoor cats, but that's not...

Oh yes, I'm fully aware of the biological implications and visit the vet regularly. What I'm uncertain of is the tooth and claw implications. I've looked to the Wikipedia pages on the fisher and the coyote and the maps that list their whereabouts include my region. However, since I didn't even...

I'm a big believer in outdoor cats. I just bought a nice place out in the country, 30 minutes from a major eastern Canadian city. When I move in, I'm going to get two kittens. I'm wondering what I can do about predators. I've been through another thread on the issue and thought I'd ask for more...

You might like to know that my opinion has become uncertain since seeing the vet again. I told her what the pet store guy told me: that vets only get 2 hours of training on nutrition which is given by the pet food companies, which she denied. She also attacked the pet store guy's opinion from a...

She doesn't eat canned food, but she does make the same sound when I give her a pill pocket, which just contains an itty-bitty quarter of a pill, so nothing really hard to deal w/there. I guess the blood work was last done in January, but I'm less concerned w/that in this thread than I am about...

That's weird. I never got a notice about this thread being replied to. I thought you guys just didn't care Dammit! I saw the vet just yesterday and forgot to bring this issue up w/her!!! Well, when I report on the amount of water my cat's drunk (which has been plenty lately) I'll ask her about...

Now that I have my cat's ravenous appetite and other health concerns to worry about, she's now making these weird sounds when she eats. It's like she has to hork up some phlegm with each mouthful she takes. Here's a sample: (I don't suppose YouTube videos can be embedded here)

What she's on now is the geriatric formula called "mature". The food I'm giving her is dry. Incidentally, a single friend of mine, who's on her way to being that crazy cat lady, tells me I should mix dry and canned. I should have checked w/the vet before posting. I think what he was proposing is...

I'm confronted with the issue of how to feed a cat who appears chronically hungry. What I'm feeding her now is what the vet sold me: Medi-Cal (I think that's the Canadian Techni-Cal), but a pet store guy says that stuff's no good for carnivores, and he recommends some kind of natural hippie...