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Obviously, but breaking stuff is not the only issue here, although the reason my breakables were up high was so my other cats, who don't jump up high, wouldn't be able to get at them. I only have one glass-doored cabinet and it's already filled with the really special stuff. And there's...

Thanks, Hissy, that seems like it will do the trick. I ordered two and can't wait until they arrive!

double-sided tape doens't seem practical, since I would have to put in on the whole shelf. I've tried the coins in the pop can trick with her other bad behaviors (mostly fighting with my other cats), and she was pretty oblivious to it. Unfortunately she doesn't scare easily, especially when...

Hi all - Is it possible to train a cat not to jump up to high places? My cat Annie flies through the air with the greatest of ease, up to the tops of kitchen cabinets and high shelves. She's usually pretty nimble when she tiptoes around, but today was the first day that she broke something...

My cat Peabody had a lump like that on his side, and we left it alone for a few years until it started to fester and then we had it removed. I'd be in the camp of just keep an eye on it and if it doesn't change and it's not bothering him then leave it alone.

Penelope was on meds for quite a while. A couple of months after she was diagnosed she stopped eating (which unfortunately we didn't notice right away until she dropped about 4 lbs and got lethargic), and she got hepatic lipidosis, which was horrible. After that she was on metronidazole...

We took in a pregnant stray last summer, and we had her spayed when the kittens were at 10 weeks. She was fine and so were the kittens. We had been working on weaning about three weeks by then and we had gotten three of the four kittens to their new owners while she was at the vet. Our cats...

My cat was diagnosed with IBD about three years ago, and my vet (an internal medicine specialist) recommended Eukanuba Low Residue. Not really sure about the protein/grain/oil ratios, but she's been eating the dry for all this time and she's doing fine - she's been completely off meds for about...

Hi - My senior cat was just diagnosed with CRF, and we need to give him subq fluids. I found a website called entirelypets.com that sells lactated ringers much cheaper than my vet, but my vet was concerned that the supplies may not be of good quality so they didn't want to issue a prescription...

Vigilance is really all you can do. To our list at home we also have curling ribbon and any kind of plastic wrapper.

Here's my most recent experience with kittens: We took in a pregnant stray cat last June and she had 4 kittens, 3 of which we which we kept until 10 weeks (we kept the last one). Yankee (born on the 4th of July) had no interest in being held at all, which was pretty different from the other...

The feet under the door are definitely hostile, screeching also ensues. I have also never introduced another adult, always a kitten, and this time of course we have both. It's going better with the kitten, although even after almost 2 weeks of togetherness (although not too much since baby...

Does your friend have boxes big enough for her? My cat, who is quite large, used to do this a lot; she would stand in the box with her butt pointed out the entrance and pee just outside the box. Got her a bigger box and the problem was solved (actually she still misses once in a while when...

Ok, so last night I tried the washcloth trick with Penny (old cat) and Annie (new cat), and they both got fairly annoyed at having their faces rubbed with it and the sniffing exchange didn't seem to have much affect. So then I tried the vanilla under the chin/smelly salmon treat/Annie in the...

My husband and I had a couple of mice in our condo last fall (both dead, we suspect thanks to our cat Max). We got some plug-in devices that emit some kind of ultrasonic sound that rodents hate. We haven't seen one since, and we suspect that they must work because our upstairs neighbor said...

I have not had this problem too much with my cats, but here's what I read about excessive night-time vocalization on another board: http://www.sniksnak.com/cathealth/nocturnal.html

I recently had an experience getting bitten by a cat I took in. Since the cat has not been checked in years and isn't up to date on it's vaccinations, you might want to suggest to your friend that she have the cat put under a rabies quarantine for 10 days. The vet may be able to do it (mine...

Thanks Hissy and Yayi - I figured scents would be traded on clothing and by having Annie in the main part of the house, but maybe that wasn't proactive enough. I do have a blanket that Annie has been sleeping on (mine, actually, that I was using when I was sitting in the room with her and she...

Hi - I'm new to this board and wanted to get some opinions about introducing a new adult cat to the household. We had three cats, ages 15 y/o male, 8 y/o female, and 7 y/o, and then around the middle of June we took in a pregnant cat that appeared in our yard. We kept mom in our guest room...