Recent Content by gwenny&lunasmom

Cats have been urinating on loose, porous rocks in front of a neighbor's ground-level window. I have read that vinegar and enzyme products can be used outside, but would that work on rocks and dirt? How much would need to be applied and how often? Any other ideas?

Hi. Thanks for the suggestion. I will contact them.

Hello. It has been several months since I last posted here. I received a lot of great advice from you all. Over the summer I neutered 6 cats--at my own expense--from around my apartment complex and also had 3 kittens adopted out. I stopped trapping in the fall and have been feeding what...

Thanks for the replies. I will try cloud-shade's suggestion of giving it to her when she is sleeping--I never thought of that approach before. The vet told me about the pH thing and that it needs to be put under the tongue, but I am lucky if I get it anywhere in her mouth. I try to do it as...

I have a cat with idiopathic interstitial cystitis. I have been giving her buprenorphine (buprenex) in her mouth by syringe, but she is a very skittish, uncooperative cat and hides when she senses I am ready to give it to her. It is a tasteless liquid, so it is not that which upsets her, but...

Thanks for the feedback and advice. We trapped another yesterday. She is a female who had kittens within the last few months, according to the vet. I didn't know until I picked her up last night that she had kittens. I hope they are okay. I had not seen this cat before and was afraid she...

I was told today that the neutered cat has shown up at the feeding place and looks healthy. Phew! I am relieved!

Hi. I wrote here a few months ago about planning for trapping and got some great advice. Thank you all! Wednesday I finally got everything together and started trapping in my apartment complex. I made arrangements with a close-by vet who is willing to neuter one cat per week at a very...

Any recommendations for a brand of carpet cleaner to use with a Steam Vac? I have lots of urine and puke spots on my carpet. I have been treating the spots with Nature's Miracle, but want to do a thorough steam cleaning. Any special cleaning technique suggestions? Is this the correct forum...

Thanks for the recommendation of the Royal Canin prescription CC High Fiber canned. I will ask the vet about this. I have tried Science Diet hairball canned food, which has a high amount of fiber, and it has worked somewhat, but I think it still needs something else to make it beneficial for...

My cat Gwenny has idiopathic interstitial cystitis, plus a history of intestinal problems. Before the diagnosis of IC, she had been on Eukanuba Indoor or Hairball dry food, because that was the only food I had found which gave her firm stools. Since the diagnosis, I have been trying to...

I just talked to a nice lady at Nutri-Vet. She said they have gotten a few other complaints about the same issue with this product. I asked her if the diffuser was compatible with Feliway or other products and she said she had heard that other people have used them interchangeably, but could...

Thanks for the response. Its good (??) to hear that someone else has had the same experience. At least I know I am not crazy--I was afraid I did something really stupidly wrong with them. Maybe there is something wrong with the manufacture of a big batch of diffusers. The person I talked to...

A few months ago I bought a Pet-Ease Pheromone Plus Diffuser for my IC cat, but after a month of being plugged in, the bottle of liquid was still full. I called the manufacturer, Nutri-vet, and they told me something must be wrong if the bottle was still full, so I took it back and got a...

Is there a product out there that can highlight pee on a carpet? I have a blacklight, but after 18 years of various episodes of puke, poop and/or pee, my carpet looks like a mottled leopard skin under the blacklight. This makes it very difficult to visually determine new spots--I have to...