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My kitten Cloud is very, very timid. She spends most of her time hiding, and has been a hideaway cat her entire life, as far as I can tell. She hides under furniture, in boxes, and now that she's figured out how, under the fitted sheet on the bed. If she's not eating or using the litterbox...

Back in May, I found a stray cat with a litter of maybe 4 week old kittens under my back porch. Mama cat, now named Mia, has tamed right down and is now a complete cuddle bug. She's also fixed and vaccinated, and I'll be keeping her. She and her five kittens were all captured and moved into the...

I've wanted to have a crop garden for ages, but never got around to it. I've also been kicking around the idea that it would be interesting to create a garden that could, in theory, provide all the food and nutrients that a person could need. There are a thousand opinions out there, but I...

I'm planning to get my litter of back porch kittens microchipped when they get fixed, but I'm trying to decide the best choice for mama cat. She's spayed now, but I didn't microchip her when I had her fixed. I had delayed asking around to find out if she was owned until AFTER she was fixed, just...

I was wondering if anyone had anything to say about Feliway or other products to calm cats. I'm doing my best to socialize and tame a semi-feral litter, and it's to the point they will all approach me for food, allow me to pet them at least a little while eating, and will engage in play with...

Not sure if this is the exact right spot, but it's related to food, so here I go. I'm trying to help Molly get a bit of her extra chub off, and since she doesn't like interactive play (why play with the toy, when you could cuddle the human?), I thought I'd try puzzle feeders to slow down her...

I'm socializing my feral kittens, and making great strides. One actively seeks petting now and pushes into it, one accepts it and may be on the way to liking it, two are getting much better, but still skitter away sometimes. The last kitten is the confusing one. She is...very shy. Her body...

It has been a while since I've had an active colony, and I've never really tried to tame properly feral kittens. Molly's last litter might technically have counted, but since we started gently handling them before their eyes even opened, I can't really apply much of the work I did with them to...

I have a catio that is currently housing a captured feral mama and five kittens while I wait for the kittens to be large enough to fix. Currently, mama is the only one actually caught in the catio, as the kittens are all still small enough to squeeze through the wire enclosing the catio. Other...

Molly has decided that she loves Tiki Cat Velvet Mousse, especially the chicken and egg flavor. I think part of why she likes it is the less pate like consistency. Anything in gravy she licks the gravy and leaves the rest, and pates she often licks a bit of, then walks away. Smashing the pate...

So, yesterday I went out to my back porch for something, and to my surprise, I see a cat...that I quickly realize is a MAMA cat, as I see two small fluffs scurry under Molly's old catio deck through a hole I hadn't thought was large enough for a cat. Mama promptly proves me wrong, as the moment...

Good news is Molly's checkup today went smoothly! Bad news is, the vet recommended I schedule a teeth cleaning. I had a bit of sticker shock when they said it would be in the range of $600 though! They said it was for basic cleaning and tartar/plaque removal, not because of any obvious...

Are cat food toppers more of an occasional treat, or can they be a regular part of a cat's diet? I know some people use small amounts of other nutritionally complete cat foods as toppers, but I'm mainly thinking of the soup/gravy/cream based toppers, usually labeled as broths, soups, or toppers...

Okay, when I first was thinking about bringing Molly inside I joked that she might starve, as she prioritizes cuddles over all else, including food. Now...I'm not so sure it is a joke. I brought Molly in yesterday. She's got a fountain for water, dry and wet food out, a new cat tree, and a...

Help! It's been raining hard here, and sometimes drowned out ants decide that even without an easy food source, human homes make nice, dry nests. Guess who the lucky host is today? :cringe: Are there any ant bombs that don't leave harmful to pets residue? Molly would, of course, be outside in...

I have finally discovered a wet food Molly likes! Even better, she likes it enough to eat it in my presence! For a bit of background, Molly is VERY cuddle motivated, to the point that I have never had a successful play session with her, because she ignores the toy and rubs on my hands or legs...

Hello all! My lovely cat, Molly, is a formerly feral calico, and though she has never met you, she loves you. I used to live out in the country, and our indoor-outdoor fixed female cat, Tiger, kept most other cats away. She was loving towards humans, but did NOT tolerate any other...

Hello all, As far as cats are concerned, the absolute worst part to me is the way that having an indoor litter box means litter being tracked through the house. Short of sweeping/vacuuming at least three times a day, I've found no way to keep litter where it belongs. Non-clumping tracks and is...