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BadHabit: You're in the minority but not alone, LOL! Bugs has a weight problem and grazes, but Tum eats everything in sight and doesn't (go figure!). We feed three times... measured dry in the morning, measured wet food at six pm and dry food when we go to bed to tide them over. If they...

AdyMarie: What happens in a situation when the drivers are deemed by the police report to be equally at fault is that the "fault determination rules" are applied by the insurance company. Although rules can differ from province to province, generally speaking the driver who rear ends another...

Sometimes it's possible to recoup a troubled family relationship. Sometimes the only thing you can do is walk away from a toxic relationship. It's a hard place to be in. After many, many years of trying, I finally walked away from a toxic family relationship. For me, it was a surprising...

I suggest that you take him to the vet ASAP and have him checked out. If he genuinely hasn't been eating or drinking for several days, he could be in serious trouble from dehydration and other complications. It's really important to have him checked out. If he's eating and drinking a little...

Bugs has always done this funny Aby thing of rearing up on his hind legs and "walking" or "running" across the room when he wants attention. When we got Tum as a kitten, it was hilarious to see him try to do the same thing... until he learned to do it was well as Bugs.

One thing that comes to mind... is he scratching the loveseat vertically or horizontally?

I know this all too well. Our cat, Bugs, is freaked out by reflections and even cat ornaments which are approximately like size and cat coloured... I have a collection of James Haddon cats and we have to carefully introduce each new one to Bugs or risk him scaling the bookcase to banish the...

dtolle writes: "I think that it is imperative that we try to stop this maniac, who is following the likes of Hitler and Stalin." This is the problem... like Bush, you keep saying that this is about Saddam and Iraq, as if the invasion can be contained in the artificial space of Iraq's borders...

Valanhb writes: "The people who actually make the decisions do, and I certainly hope they have it." I am, for various reasons, a student of war propaganda in Vietnam and Nazi Germany. One of the scary things for me is that a lot of the talk being advanced by Bush and his advisors show eerie...

dtolle writes: "So the dreaded tum, you think we should just leave him in power and wait??" I'm simply saying that the US has to be prepared to do the whole job instead of part of it. If the committment isn't there, economically and politically, you might as well wait: chances are, you'd do...

You're welcome. I hope it helps! I think you are right, though... Barney did begin as alpha cat. It's not unusual to have two cats grow up together and then at around one year (when most cats are officially full grown) to have the alpha order change. You've probably got a situation where...

dtolle writes: "I say go in, oust him, and get a good gov't in there. One that is a democracy, one that will abide by the UN rules, and one that nobody has to be in fear that one morning they may wake up and find the half the world has been blown up by the almighty Hussein." That's fine... in...

From their ages, I agree that it's likely a dominance issue, especially given the difference in size. When cats live together, they naturally find a pecking order in which one cat emerges as alpha and the others as betas. You can usually spot the specific behaviors that identify this... often...

Has Steven been tested?

Full sun is six to eight hours or longer... In fact, it may be perferable to have some shade at midday. I think they'll be fine.