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I do know for a fact this shelter feeds only Science Diet.  They have a contract with the company for a sponsorship thing.  I guess we'll continue the dry slowly for the next two weeks.  Pete'll just have to be isolated at night so everyone can have their own dry food down because there is no...

Last night, we brought home Peter Parker, our new one year old kitty.  He's integrating well.  He's getting along with the great dane, the other cats.  He isn't showing untoward attention to the 'cagepets' (sugar gliders, rats).   But he came home on Science Diet.  Which my twin cats are very...

We don't own a scale so we can't weigh him without going to the vet. I worry a lot about my babies, all of them. I really hope he's not sick. He's not ACTING sick, but I'm just... I worry so much, but I hate wasting time and money to go to the vet just because I'm having a total freakout...

My male, Leo, was on the heavier side of healthy, bordering onto overweight. He wasn't heavy enough I was worried, but I was looking into getting him one of those feeder balls to encourage him to be a bit more active. Then we introduced the 'babies.' (they're two years old, but so tiny we...

He sounds like such a sweetie. Do you notice a lot of differences between him and your hearing kitties? Sorry to keep asking questions, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can about deaf animals and there's less out there about deaf kitties than deaf puppies, even.

I'm really glad he's happy. How old was he when you got him?

Well, so far, so good. Adding the newest cats actually fixed life-long behaviour issues in one of our older cats (not that I'd recommend adding new animals as a cure to behaviour issues, normally I'd recommend the opposite, but we'd basically given up on correcting Shini's issues with other...

Haven't read the book yet, but I'm familiar with Three Dog Bakery. I tend to avoid books about animals because the endings always make me bawl like a baby.

I'm doing a blog for my new puppy, Castiel, a white great dane who is almost certainly deaf. I'm talking about deafness in animals, the training of a deaf dog, animals in general and breeders who 'cull' white animals for fear of deafness. In the future, I'd love to do a blog post on a deaf (or...

He's two weeks, actually. You can see his eye is just opening. He's soooo cute and we love him already.

Well, here's a pic of him right now.

Hmm... Our flat is very open-concept, so gates won't help much, but I think I can get a couple of playyards or something (the 'baby gates' with like, 4-6 panels). We've started talking to trainers, before the pup was even born, so I think we'll do okay. I just have to train my dear sweet...

We lack counterspace. It's very much at a premium in our current place. Even if we had lots of it, well... This dog is going to be rather tall. He's a great dane and they're known for counter surfing. Putting the litter on a counter would just put it at mouth height once he's full grown or...

We have four cats and it's just been confirmed that we're getting a puppy. I don't want the cats to feel like they need to defend either their litter pans or their food. What is the best way to keep a curious little puppy from sticking his nose into their faces when they are eating or peeing?

We're going through this right now, though we're hoping to be able to go back to free feeding eventually. We've got two little cats that have been so sick so long that their guts need time to heal before we can put them on solely kibble. They're on a raw blend right now as we transition them...