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We brought our kitty home about a year ago ... she was a skinny stray living in the forest near the warehouse where my husband works, and we caught her, took her to the vet for shots and then brought her home for the first time that same day. That day she vomited a few times--it was just a white...

I feed IAMS, but one thing I found with my cat is that when I give her something new that she likes she'll start rejecting the food she used to like and only want the new stuff. I'm wiling to try rotating out different brands but I'm worried about throwing a lot of money away on stuff she...

My cat is a good eater most of the time. In fact, probably a little too good. But she's terribly picky about what I give her. I order cat food from Amazon but it arrives in packs of 18 so I'll usually end up filling up the extra days of the month with food I buy at the grocery store. The...

Our kitty (Frankie) has been with us a couple of weeks, but she's known my husband for several months--she showed up as a stray at the warehouse where we have our business. She was clearly underfed and had been injured at some point--she walks with a limp and her foot is misshapen as if it's...

Here's Frankie, and just in case you're curious ... here's the hole she went down, too. I took about a billion pictures of the inside of our ducting in the hope I'd see some cat eyes shining back at me! 

I never thought you sounded harsh. :) We were worried too, and that's why I came here looking for advice. Our kitty's name is Frankie--my kids used to call her Frank back when she was a skinny stray (she moved into the warehouse where we have our business a couple of months ago) because they...

She was pretty happy to be back, she sat in my lap all night purring and making biscuits. :) But I do want to say something that will (possibly) exonerate my poor son, who has been claiming all this time that it wasn't him. He's been telling us from the beginning that the cat "lifted" the...

We are so relieved. 

After 36 hours in our ducting our kitty finally poked her head into the vent in the girl's bedroom. She was hungry ... I put some tuna on the end of my fingers and good thing I thought to put on a pair of gloves because she was trying to claw it off my fingers with her foot. I lured her out...

I called the city one yesterday and was told that all they can do with cats is trap them. But I've since learned that we're actually under the jurisdiction of county animal control, so I am waiting for a call back from them. I'm not really optimistic that they'll tell me anything different than...

Oh good idea. I'll try the bird songs. And maybe I'll cook some shrimp for dinner.

OK so I'm clearly grasping at straws here and you'll all have to remember that this is my first cat in about 20 years! But I just had the idea to play a recording of cat sounds next to the vent to see if her curiosity will draw her out. Or do you think that would actually make her hide more...