Recent Content by StormyPeak

This gives me some hope. Too be frank, on Sunday late night, to early morning hours, Song woke me up about 5 times, scaring me each time out of a much needed sleep with the sudden and loud yowls. I was so tired, and I've been through this process before with another elderly cat, and I...

Thanks for the information. She's to go back to the vet for her 2nd thyroid test the first week May. She absolutely sounds like she's in pain...but I honestly don't think pain is the issue. She's never had one of those episodes in front of me, or if AU or Thump are within sight. She's...

This post is in connection with one I just posted about my elderly cat, Song. Song recently has started to experience dementia episodes. Here's the link to that post...before I tell you about my golden retriever. High thyroid #s. caused dementia? My golden retriever's name is AU, (Au being...

Hi, it's been a while since I posted. The last time it was about my 3 legged cat, Thump. This time it's about my elderly cat, Song, age 14). I adopted her when she was 2 years old, and almost always fed her dry kibble, and she self regulated her eating of it. But when I got Thump, Thump...

Kwik, Thanks for the info on that product. What I've been doing is spraying a tiny bit of Clorox foaming spray on the area after I pick the solids up...this is to sterilize the area. After I wipe up the Clorox, I then use a product called Skout's Honor which is a super nice odor remover. I...

Kwik, thanks for the information on the cat litter attractant. I might end up trying it. I keep hoping though that Thump will eventually use the box all the time. She was doing it every day on the floor for almost a month after I got her. She's now only doing it like once a week. With luck...

I did switch litter boxes early on, to one with low sides. I think that given she was a kitten when she lost her leg, and with all the pain, and never had to use a litter box before...it was all probably an experience that overwhelmed her. I'm sure she has some pain associations. When I...

I will check out that site. It's a clever name too : ) Another thing I'm dealing with, with Thump. She was a stray kitten, so never used a litter box. Then she was a kitten with what was probably a very painful recovery, having an amputated leg...and put into a cage with a feed bowl and a...

I lived in a 450 sq foot home for 14 years. Yeah...a home just big enough for one 12 x 12 bedroom, a hall long enough for a washer and dryer on one side and an itty bitty bathroom across from those. The kitchen was just across the counter from the living room. There was only 1 door for the...

The cat in my avatar was my first cat, I got her as a 1/2 grown stray kitten and she lived to be 21 years old. For years with her, I used a scented, course-type non clumping kitty litter...but when she hit about 16 years old, she started pooing outside the litter box. I did some research and...

I started using wood pellets and even after it turns to fluff, I don't think it tracks as easily or as far as the clay litters. Plus it's a lot less money. A $10 40lb bag of it will easily last a month with 2 cats, and I pay a few dollars for a large box of baking soda and add some of that to...

Back in the mid 1980s when I worked at our local animal shelter, we would have called Nugget's coat a long hair, dark sable. It's more of a color description than a pattern description. Sable, is often a darker brown, but I've seen cats called sables that had shadows of reds, or lighter shades...

Thanks. AU, in the first photo is about a year old, his nose was still black at that point and his golden coloring was just coming in with his hair. For a while he looked almost like a cream colored golden. But his fur became a beautiful burnish of golds, and reddish tones...and his nose...

There was a request to show Song, my other cat, so I will post a few photos here. But first a photo of the first cat I ever owned, a stray kitten I took home and who hooked me onto grey tuxedos. Her name was Ashley and I had her for 21 years : ) This photo was when she was around 4 years...

A 40 pound of pellets will last a whole month for my two cats with me taking out the poo and darker really wet powdered sawdust on a daily basis, sometimes twice a day. I don't put a whole lot of pellets in anyways, as they powder and fluff up so much when wet. Again, I remove the really...