Recent Content by rblaude

Hello. I have two cats. When we had one cat and we went away overnight or for two nights, we used feeder-timers to feed at the right times. We don't just free-feed. Now, the second (newer) cat needs a particular food plus we are concerned about one eating all the food before the other gets...

Thanks everyone for your advice. Since I've got the duck on hand, I'll first try nuking it and see if that works for him. If it doesn't, I'll eliminate the duck. We went to duck only on the hunch that he has some sensitivity to chicken or turkey (causing the diarrhea), and it's hard to find...

I've been feeding Spirit canned Eagle Pack for 4 days now, the duck and oatmeal, because he has chronic diarrhea. I also feed him dry Eagle Pack every day, but at a separate time. He's had no problems until today... I just fed him the can - cold, right out of the fridge - and he threw it all...

I've read about Oliver several times now and he sounds really sweet. We used to have a big orange cat. My husband still has a soft spot in his heart for them, and maybe someday there will be another orange cat that grabs us and screams "take me home!" I think they do have a dog complex. We...

Overall I like the softpaws too, a lot. Without them my husband would INSIST on declawing Spirit. Bad things..... they ain't cheap, but you can buy them cheaper on ebay. You already know that depending on the cat they can be hard to put on. But with a sleepy pill or 2 you should be fine...

Two kittens, I agree completely. As for the pet stores, some pet stores don't "sell" cats but instead allow local shelters to come in and adopt out. I volunteer for a local shelter and we have 9 permanent cages at Petsmart that we adopt out of. Our fee is 65 bucks and the cats have gotten all...

Believe me I do stop him, not only for the sake of his health but because it hurts me when he starts pulling on it! Well, I'll just take it as him saying he loves me. He tends to be a slow learner (or just obstinate) but hopefully he can learn to show his love at a time other than 3am!

I have shoulder length hair, blonde, which for one of those reasons seems to really attract my kitten. He likes to crawl up on my head at night and munch on my hair. He can really real it in, kinda like spaghetti! Why does he do this and is there some way I can redirect his munchies? Anyone...

Maybe if you feed her at one or two specific times of day instead of free, she'll be hungry at those times and more likely to eat. Not only physically will she be more hungry, but it will become force of habit for her to eat at those times. That force of habit could counter her social eating...

Why keep him locked up? My cats don't like being beyond any door in the house if a person is on the other side. We let them roam all over whenever, except one room that's off limits. And they only complain about that when we're in that off-limits room. If you're afraid he'll get hurt, just...

thank you for humoring me with the pictures. What a pretty fuzzball! I think she looks a lot more like a Felicia than a Newbie!

One of my friends used one of those big cages with multi-levels. There's room for a small litter box (not hooded) and food and water and some toys, but not a whole lot of room to run and play. Obviously not ideal for kitty, but you gotta do what you gotta do! It'll keep your home from getting...

I have no idea, but now I really want to see a picture of her. Poor baby! Oh actually, how 'bout that gravy stuff they sell to put on cat food?

Have you tried putting several Feliway plug ins around the house? Did you introduce them slowly over several days? If not, maybe you could go back and try that now. There are some great instructions for that around here.

Yes I need to get a couple of those sisal rugs! I've heard a few people recommend them now and I think Spirit would enjoy them. Oh and I was able to get the Softclaws on his dewclaws yesterday. I did trim down the softclaw - but even that didn't work up till now! He's so small because he was...