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My husband and I are moving across the country next month (20 hour drive) and are taking our cat. We're worried about him on the drive, so we've been starting to leash train him so we can take him out at rest stops and give him some fresh air.  We got a harness, and he hated it for about 12...

Thanks, all!  I work an office job but my office is located less than two miles from the apartment so I come home for lunch most days (and I will tomorrow). BF is a third year med student so he's home studying a lot but he's going to be busier than usual tomorrow, unfortunately. Management...

I live in a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment and received word that the complex is inspecting units tomorrow. According to the notice, I am supposed to secure my cat, but I'm not really sure how to do that without torturing him all day.  My kitten is about ten months old and usually has the...

I adopted a kitten (unknowingly) with ringworm about five months ago. I am fairly sure the shelter did not know about it, or they likely would have noted it, since they did tests for most of the major illnesses.  It took us a few weeks to realize, and only when my boyfriend and I got it were we...

Thanks! My concern for the sitter is largely due to the fact that this is a pet sitting company and not an individual sitter. There are about 30 sitters working in a very, very large metro area and while I can ready dozens of happy reciews on Angie's List, I can't find anything about the...

I am the proud co-owner of a 8-9 month old shelter rescue named Albus who, over the last five months, has become the absolute light of my life. I have crazy cat lady written all over me. My boyfriend and I are both leaving for the holiday and I'm really panicking about the cat. We called...

I have four and a half month old kitten that my boyfriend and I rescued from a shelter when he was (apparently) three months old. When we brought him home on August 10th, he was about 2.8 pounds and more underweight than we knew at the time. After some bouts of sickness and ringworm, he has...

For those of you who have seen my other posts (ringworm, URI, insanity, fleas...), you probably all think I'm crazy cat mommy but really, my adorable and lovable baby cat is a huge handful (but we couldn't possibly love him more than we do).  I have a four month old shelter rescue who was a...

I have a four-month old shelter rescue I got about a month ago. When we first got him, he was very sweet and affectionate (although we now attribute that to his URI) and even as his health returned, he was still relaxed and charming when he wasn't being a typical kitten.  However, over the last...

I have a three and a half month old rescue kitten who has already had a bad URI, fleas, took ages to box train... we love this little guy, but he's put us through the ringer.  In any case, we're fairly sure he has ringworm, since my boyfriend and I both have circular rashes that look a lot like...

I adopted a little man from the shelter about two and a half weeks ago who came to us with a bad URI. Here we are, 15 days later and he still has the sniffles. He's three and a half months old, so he's still a baby, but he's well on the road to recovery. The vet gave him amoxicillin but he only...

After about 30 hours, our little boy seems just fine... He's been eating, drinking and playing all day. I ordered Advantage for $50 from 1-800-Petmeds so we'll have that by the end of the week. I feel sick over what Hartz could have done to him if I hadn't been looking for information. 

I washed him after an hour or so. He may have ingested some, which really worries me. He's sleeping next to me right now, and if he's not eating, drinking, or playing by tomorrow morning, he's going to the 24 hour animal hospital tomorrow morning. I can't believe I didn't do my homework before...

Help! My kitten is about three and a half months old and has been really itchy, and my boyfriend and I have what look like flea bites. We grabbed an OTC medication from Target, not knowing any better, and I plopped it on him.  I didn't do a great job, as it got on more fur than cat skin, but...

I bought a few options when I was at PetCo today... I have a can of Royal Canin Kitten, a Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers, and a Solstice Grain Free gravy dinner. I was looking for things I could incorporate into a liquid to syringe-feed if necessary but luckily the saline spray did the trick. I'll...