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Ares and Athena, a bonded pair of siblings. These photos are just from the last two months!

I debated whether or not to put this in Cat Health or here in Cat Behavior. My 3.5-year-old cat Athena has been having episodes of skin and tail twitching and zoomies during which she pauses to bite at her lower back and tail. It seems to happen more at night, but I'm also at work on weekdays...

Hi, all, My 2.5-year-old kitty Athena has been having frequent diarrhea since yesterday afternoon and has vomited up last night's dinner and today's lunch. I tried giving her some plain chicken and rice with a bit of plain pumpkin mixed in (she LOVES pumpkin -- eats it straight off the spoon)...

Just sharing cause my boy Ares' feet are so large and adorable, and he loves to stretch them out.

Yesterday, I saw a post on the NextDoor app about someone giving away two "free kittens" who would otherwise be "released elsewhere." I picked them up about a couple hours later, and they are absolutely adorable, even though they're scared. They've lived outside for the first four months of...

Disclaimer: I am taking my cats to the vet in a couple weeks for their annual checkup, and I will be asking about this, but I wanted to see if anyone had experience with nail chewing in cats. I couldn't find anything when I searched the forums. My one-year-old cat Ares has been chewing on his...

Hi, everyone. I'm hoping for some advice. I'm going to be moving in August and will be sharing a house with a few other people. I was the first person to sign a lease other than the current resident (who has no pets), and, as some of you know, I have two tightly-bonded cats who are littermates...

I often feel like I'm interrupting some intimate moments in my household...

I'm out of the country right now and heard this from my partner. My nearly one-year-old Athena flopped onto her side today, as she does, but she did it on a table in the dining room. She fell off the table and onto the chair beside it, but this was a plastic folding chair, and she fell on it in...

For perspective, she's almost a year old now. She used to be a quiet kitty outside of rough play with her brother, but in the past month or two, she's gotten a lot more vocal. She "yells at corners," we say, often at flecks of dust or dots on the wall, and sometimes when she's just overexcited...

How dark is too dark? How light is too light? How thick is too thick? I have many questions about poop, apparently. Athena and Ares have distinctive poop, so I know when one or both have used the box, despite being gone most of the day and them sharing absolutely everything. Athena has very...

Athena: Ares: And then a tussle:

I tried FortiFlora per vet recommendation, but my girl threw it up within a minute, and my boy wouldn't even touch it. I mixed it into their food, as suggested...but nope. On the bright side, Chewy gave me a full refund, plus suggestions for other probiotics. So, does anyone have experience...

I've posted about Ares' pickiness with wet food before and got excellent advice. I ended up giving him and his sister Fancy Feast once or twice a day for a few weeks and discovered (1) his love of fish, and (2) his love of beef (flavored with fish). I also knew how low-quality Fancy Feast is and...

I've seen and heard various things from vets and on the internet. I do know that many cats continue to grow through 1.5 years and that big breeds grow for even longer. But growth spurts? I'm having a hard time finding information. Ares has put on more than half a pound in just a couple weeks...

Second post today...sorry, guys. How likely is it that two follow-up fecal analyses missed lingering coccidiosis? My kittens have continued to have intermittent soft poops with yellow/orange coloring in between healthy-seeming poops since their course of Albon a few months ago, but both...

Ares has always gone through phases with food. When we first adopted him at 8 weeks, he was often too distracted and hyped up to eat much at once, and we often had to place him in front of a plate/bowl to make him eat. We also spent about a month figuring out three wet foods he would eat...

According to the Veterinary Oral Health Council, there are three kinds of treats that are accepted as effective against tartar: Greenies, Whiskas Dentabites, and Purina DentaLife. What are your experiences with these brands? Do you feel that the treats have made an impact on your kitties' dental...

I've posted about Athena before, but I'm still a bit concerned about how round her belly is. She's just about 8 months old, and her belly has basically always been like this. It's bigger after eating, and it often feels taut. I took her to a vet to check it out just before she was spayed at the...

My two 8-month-old kittens have been enjoying our Christmas tree (it's Blue Spruce, which is non-toxic to cats). Now the boy has some spots of sap on his face, and the girl has it on her whiskers! I thought they would lick it off each other, but they haven't after a couple of days. Do I just...