Recent Content by jirel

I had a moment of insane weakness and have 3. The reason it was insane weakness is that my townhouse bylaws state we can only have two pets per house. However, Xena only gets in the window in back which is never seen by anyone. Eowyn and Trjegul are seen out front so it only looks like I have...

How old is Melody? Do the rest of the family let her play with her feet and expect her to understand that she just cannot play with your mom's feet because she is sick? I am diabetic too and it has been quite a trial with Trjegul because he is a biter and I have thin skin. Since I got him I...

Congratulations on getting an older cat! Too many people only want kittens. By getting an older cat you will help save a cat that otherwise might not get a good home. If you are very worried about bad habits, you might also want to look into the breed rescue groups. This is what I did when I...

I hate to say it but it may be that he sees the new male kitty as a rival male. I suspect the females aren't a problem. Would you be able to find a new home for the new kitten since he is young and a new addition? I know kittens are wonderful but they are also easier to find homes for.

Xena used to do that occaisionally. But Xena also had hard, hair filled poop so I just figured it was an "Oh thank god its finally out!" type of thing. In her case the hairball food has actually helped. I don't really know if its helped with the hairballs but she's getting much more normal...

The first thing to do is to make an appointment to take him to the vet to make sure he doesn't have some kind of urinary track infection or something else wrong. Illnesses manifest in unusual ways with cats. Second. How many litter boxes do you have? With two cats the absolute minimum is two...

Two things have happened. One is that I was playing with him with the wand and he did finally jump in the air. He didn't act like it hurt, he just didn't like the idea of doing it and the second was that I read that female cats mature at 6 - 8 months of age and male cats at 9 - 12 months of...

Trjegul likes to sit between the two shower curtains while I shower and let his tail hang over the edge of the shower and into the water. He will also peak around the curtain at the back of the shower to see what I'm doing. One day he walked around the back of the shower curtain, into the...

http://www.petvetdirect.com/home.asp...rfd=&ovchn=GGL I just did a search on the internet and found this, I'm not specificially recommending the site or anything.

Judging by the tone of your note you already feel like the best place is the 2nd bedroom because of the ease of removal if anything goes wrong. But it really sounds like everything should go well and like you have done a great job of taking care of things.

My Trjegul was neutered before I got him at 11 weeks and he has been the sweetest most loving kitten I've ever had. He DOES bite more than any cat I've ever had but it is always play biting. It's taken me months of saying "No", blowing in his face, putting him down and occaisionally even...

Xena has a high pitched call sort of "Uh- oh" with the first sylable a higher pitch then the second that she uses only when she is playing with little round crinkly balls. She hunts them al over the house and carries them in her mouth. I've heard about mama cats using a hunting call to call...

I don't know the Pam Johnson-Bennett book. I have heard about re-directed aggresion in a book called The Cat who Cried for Help by Dr Nicholas Dodman. He specifically mentioned indoor cats seeing outdoor cats as a stimulator for this type of problem. He actually witnessed the start of a bout...

I have an 8 month old kitten that I got when he was about 11 - 12 weeks old. He was a stray. I've never had one this young before. Trjegul is a joy but I've noticed a couple of things about him that prove his missed out on some of his training/learning. One is that he doesn't realy jump. He...

I'm going to have to try the vaccum trick. Trjegul likes water so spraying water at him doesn't work. (He's gotten in the shower with me a couple of times.)