Recent Content by laurag

I didn't say they used cremeated pets. I'm just saying that SINCE cremation is offered it would be pretty stupid for shelters to send euthanized pets to rendering plants if it were convenient enough to cremate them.

There are a variety of tidy cats clumping that work well. I like it because you can adequately get the pee balls out which I am sure the cats appreciate. There are low dust varieties they have that are good. I think all of them have some perfume masking but I tend to avoid the ones that are...

Only one of my cats doesn't care if the food is cold, and that is Estelle. The others will have nothing to do with it if it is chilly. I have mixed success with microwaving food. Most of the time they don't like it re-heated. I've also tried letting it sit for a bit and then mixing warm water...

With my kitty Boo Berry, I started offering freeze dried raw because you have to mix it with warm water. He had minor crystal formation. I don't know if he will be a kitty that has a tendency for crystals or if his previous pelvic injury and suddenly finding himself an indoor kitty rather than a...

Wet food is best for most of her diet. The pouches should offer a feeding guideline. Assuming they are 3 ounces each, I think you should plan on offering her one full pouch at each meal. As a kitten, she may need a 3rd. Dry food contributes to dehydration in cats. Offering her some dry though to...

Charlie cat has asthma. One of the vets just kept giving her de-wormer thinking it was kitten worms. One of the other vets at the practice suggested an x-ray because she is a bit of a wheezy breather at times and just happened to be doing that on one particular vet visit. So then she got a...

Unless you have cans of the Hounds and Gatos, I probably wouldn't force it. If she's doing better on Wellness Kitten and Fancy Feast, it might be worth just offering her that for a few days to make sure she's back to normal. Weruva is super expensive given the actual food you get. It's made in...

You may also want to offer her chicken baby food with just the meat and broth ingredients. It's liquidy and cats usually like it. It can really help with the bitterness of the flagyl.

Chrisfidget, love the wings. She reminds me of a crested penguin or a tufted puffin!

They are really good looking kitties! Love their faces.  Here's an old article on how to tell if your cat has Maine Coon heritage http://maine-cooncat.com/ismy.html   Aside from that article, I thought I had read that many American cats occasionally produce kitties with the features of Maine...

Exactly. Estelle will put her paw into the dish and pull it out from under the unsuspecting victim and then eat their food. The victim usually just sits there, stunned.  I forgot to add that after putting the dish down for scrawny Simone, she scampers away and then I have to follow her with the...

I agree on the starches too. I actually do worry some about the can liners.  As an fyi to people wanting to try raw, my recent rescue guy, a former stray, took to freeze dried raw immediately. I selected it because you add water to it and it was a way to get more hydration to him. He will have...

The same thing could be caused by colitis. While that could have many different causes, you might want to eliminate any dry food because that can make the situation worse. Sometimes kitties with sensitivities or allergies to grains can get an inflamed colon that results in exactly what you've...

One of my cats, Simone, does this. She is relentless. I never give in. Neither does she. She bites my nose, spreads her paw out to maximize claw coverage and taps on my face. Over, and over and over.  I put the blankets over my head and she finds a gap and paws at my face. I pet her, she nips...

I've actually noticed pork being added now to a few commercial cat foods. I think Nutro is one...I might be remembering that wrong though.