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They've been slow to react because they said that ulcers before 6 months are hard to treat as the immune system is developed enough to test 'positive' for anything. So, we could either load him onto steroids, then wean off them to do all the blood tests or just wait. And given that he isn't...

Hrrrrrmmmmmm....that is interesting.  I wonder if I can get whole mice or rabbit. Poor Charlie. He only thought things were hard with Mama offering food and bothering him to eat.  I see some people offer crickets.  I mean, I'm not saying that cats don't eat insects but do I really need to...

What about fur? Obviously in the wild, rats, mice and rabbits have fur that gets eaten along with the skin, right? Does the fur have any benefit? Like roughage or fibre or is it a hindrance to the diet? I'm looking at getting a grinder. The more I read the more I want to control the diet and...

oops. double post. 

I did buy some organic chicken necks and offer them raw. The only one who seemed interested was Benjamin and all he did was hiss and growl and drag them around for a while. No one ate them at all. =(

No, I never feed cooked bones.  I'm going to do this:   So that I can offer eggshell one day and Bone Meal the next.  I want to make sure that I'm offering a good calcium option since he has been deficient in it for so long. I know it's probably not needed to offer both but I figure if I've...

I have just started reading some of the listed readings (Thank you!!) and wow. I feel like I am in way over my head. But I'll get there.  I've done the egg shell for today.  I've got some free range chicken legs cooking. We'll eat the meat then I'll do up the bone.  We are searching for a...

I don't really have much experience with the breed. I've only read about them online and in books. My companion Andy passed away in January and he was a very large cat and I wanted a feline who would be big and solid like he was.  I don't know how much of Charlie's temperament is Maine Coon...

We eat a lot of chicken as a family and I often give a bit of cooked chicken to Tiggy to try and entire Charlie to eat it. Benjamin will eat anything, so he enjoys cooked chicken as well. Charlie, well, he'll put it in his mouth but he won't *eat* it. So I guess that's still a no go.  I can get...

Hi Cat Site Members,  I thought I'd introduce myself because I'm going to be asking a lot of repetitive and dumb questions! I'm Jen, 32 and live in NZ. I have 3 cats -- Benjamin (tabby, almost 9), Tiggy, (tabby, 9 months) and Charlie (half -Maine Coon, 6 months).  Charlie has been a very...

'Help' is quite appropriate isn't it!? My daughter is desperate for more but I think with these 2 we will have a number of battles to win before they're both quite settled. Right now they're sitting at the door because they have infuriated a male Fantail so much that he is stopping them from...

I will definently head over to the raw feeding forum.  I just did the egg shells. We don't have a Magic Bullet, so I whizzed them in my electric hand mixer and then pummelled them to powder in my pestle & mortar. I mixed it into some Jimbos and he ate that very well. I tried it just on the top...

Thank you so much for your time and patience.  I have never met a cat like Charlie (and I hope he is just 1 in an otherwise healthy long line of 'special' cats). I do worry that he doesn't feel well and that's why he is so very picky. It's not a lack of food on offer. It's just the getting it...