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  1. thefiresidecat

    what type of tabby pattern is this?

    This was my cat andromeda when she was a young girlcat. she passed in early 2023 I know she was a tabby but what pattern of tabby would this be called? just looking at old photos of her and realized I wasn't really sure. is it an overgrown whorl pattern? she wasn't striped it seems like other...
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    unusual feature on my longhaired lynxpoint

    \ if you look at the hairs on his back on the half nearer to the rump you will see some pearly guard hairs. they are pure shiney pearl white. under them is a mocha coffee color. in a downy soft fur. the guard hairs are thick and silky. I've never seen a distinction of hairs like this with two...
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    covid and cats

    we just got the bad news we have covid. we have four cats. pretty sure we've had covid for a few days now. would you isolate your cats or just continue as is? hubby thinks just as is. I don't know. thinking as is because it's already been a few days now and we were prob contagious before...
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    do kittens whiskers not keep up with their body?

    I know that cats whiskers tell them if they can fit into a spot or not. I have a 6 month old kitten that got stuck in the Bannister rails today. (I think she's ok but she clearly hurt her ribs a bit) we did the top part of the stairs with netting but didn't bother with the lower part because we...
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    smoke or shaded?

    this is Dante. I used to worry about the weird parts that showed in his fur and then i noticed he had light grey under the black. it's always been like this but I never asked about it. is this shaded? or smoke? I thought shaded was white I'm not sure what it's called when it's grey like this...
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    kittens dna test results

    I've posted a lot about these little dudes in the last couple months so I thought i'd share what basepaws had to say. likely to have long hair. two long hair variants G>T and Del(A) if I understand that right, the first one is just a global found in any cat gene and the second is found in...
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    5 strands intolerance allergy test?

    anyone have any reviews on this? thinking about doing it for our kitten. I've never heard of it before last night. https://www.5strands.com/collections/dog-cat-food-intolerance-testing
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    s boulardi

    my kitten has had a pcr and a float test. negative for everything but has had pooh that ranges from liquid to soft to normal. we tried a number of things then s boulardi. s boulardi seems to sort it. we also have her on wet/dry and some adult fiber food. the minute we forget a dose of the s...
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    how much white will he keep? (lynxpoint)

    here we are at 5 months. my last lynx point was really light and then his entire coat went dark. this little man (clawdius)appears to be with white though. is there any way to tell what will stay white and what will go dark? is it basically all the ghost striped areas go dark and everything else...
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    stair solution

    we have two new kittens. one of which is pretty normal. the other is cross eyed and very very high speed and very very bad depth perception. we haven't given them full reign of the house yet even after 2 months. they're getting big enough and curious enough that we need to find solutions now...
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    kitten ate some string from a frayed tag on a blanket

    it happened so fast I couldn't stop her. my husband isn't worried about it. we gave her some hair ball treaters. it was silky type material and probably a couple inches long. i don't know what to do. I showed him an article and said we should call the vet and he said he didn't think it was a big...
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    kitten weight

    I have two four and a half month old kittens. one has had runny pooh that we just solved and gained half a pound in like a week. the other hasn't gained any weight in a couple weeks now. he seems to be eating. super hyperactive. he looks bigger than his sister. but he weighs 5 pounds and she...
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    metronidazole

    this was prescribed for my four month old kitten the other day for runny pooh. is this safe? its a 7 day course two times a day. they didn't do a pcr panel. elevated white blood cell count and runny bottom is what they based it on. fiber hasn't been doing making her better. probiotics haven't...
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    Drusilla's very bad day

    so starting pretty much when we got her this lil kitty has had soft pooh. (june 1st) on the 20th we went to the vet for final vacc series and general wellness exam. we were given some tips on improving things and it did. we got her to normal. then after a week we were told we could start the...
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    kittens introduction to older cats

    so i'm not clueless.. I've read the various things to read. but I do want to ask advice on a point. we have two adult males and two kittens. we've had the kittens since first of june. they've been in their own basement kitten room. we had the kitten room mostly full of new things for them. the...
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    what breed is my kitten? (just for game, I know the breed)

    just doing kitten pics I think he's way too easy to spot as an adult. dunno he might be too easy as a kitten too. it's just for fun. :p I know what breed he is. this is just for fun if you are bored and want to play a guessing game that has an answer. his eyes as an adult are sea green
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    vaccinations and kittens and herpes

    I have four cats. two of them are adults and two of them kittens. one of the adults has feline herpes. he's not exhibiting it atm. and the kittens are one week off final dose of vaccine. they've had a couple close calls at meeting (everyone is ready to do this thing. it's been nearly 2 weeks...
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    need some experts advice on probiotics for baby cat

    this is the ingredient list for a probiotic from "all the best" called good digestion. they say it's for cats and dogs which makes me a little nervous because cats and dogs are different but is there anything in this that would be bad for a almost four month old kitten? and do these ingredients...
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    kitten pooh issues

    we have a kitten that is a little over three months old. she's had alternating normalish pooh to mushy pooh to liquid pooh in an alternating fashion. we keep thinking she's over it and then there is a pool of pooh again. we took samples to the vet on friday morning but they didn't get back to us...
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    kitten eye color

    these kittens were born approx last week of feb. these photos were taken seconds apart from each other. one pic his eyes look bright blue another a kind of what, non descript yellowish or greenish? I was trying to get a good photo of his eyes because I've seen a bit of green in them in the...
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