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    Bumps on kittens ears, need help

    I could use some advice or idea's ASAP. I've got a lot of kittens, 10 weeks old, just about ready to go to their new homes. It seemed to have started when I purchased a cat tree from Pet Smart. There were about 20 cat trees, near the ceiling in Pet Smart. A lady had to bring it down with a...
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    Strange notion of living quarters for breeding cats

    I met a guy, starting to breed cats, who wants Bangels, Folds, & Munchkins. Fortunately I don't have any of those. He wanted to see my cat set up, & how I house my toms. I'm got walk-in indoor/outdoor runs. I think they are nice for cats, & told him sure he could see them. I also let him see my...
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    Pink eye

    Hi, I've got this litter of 8 kittens, 6 wks old. Three of them have developed pink eye. A couple are intermittantly sneezeing. All are eating, playing, etc. I've been treating the pink eye with terrimycin eye ointment for 3 days. I'm assumeing the whole litter will get it, but so far it...
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    Ban on declawing cats in West Hollywood, CA

    I just read on a list, about an AP story reporting that West Hollywood, CA, is going to ban the declawing of cats. This city was also one of the first to approve the guardian language. A council member was quoted as saying, "the declawing ban would put some teeth in the guardian resolution"...
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    Are there Hybred registries for Cats??

    I'm vary curious if there are cat registries that registar first generation hybred cats. I've noticed that dog hi-breds are on the increase. Labordoodle is an interesting idea of someone's cross. It even made Time magazine. I've seen a couple cat ads where people were mixing hemi's with...
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    Breeder male cat looseing wt.

    My adult male cat, has been looseing weight. It's hard to pinpoint, but I noticed approx. 3 weeks after I had been to my first cat show. This was also approx. 3 weeks after the first girl here, was in heat. Do unaltered males tend to loose weight durning kitty breeding season? All the fat pad...
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    Mother Cat not useing litter box near kittens

    Hi, Wondering if it is common for a Mother cat to try and get as far from her kittens as possible to potty. My spouse was all worried that she must be constipated or not eating or something. As he wasn't finding anything in her litter. She is a NFC with 4 vary nice, 2 wk. old kittens...
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    Shampoo/ what kind?

    I'm going to try my first cat show next weekend. I need to bathe my NFC by Tue. What is the best shampoo? I figure I'll just use whatever I can find this first time, but if there is a better brand, I'd like to look for it at the show. There is a petco in the area, that probably has some suitable...
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    Paws with caked on litter

    Hi, One of my cats has a habit of sloshing his feet in the water dish. Then of course in and out of the litter box. In a matter of days the litter has gotten stuck and clumped between his toes, and he's walking on litter stilts. At which time I have to soak it off. He just won't keep his...
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    blue eye turned hazel

    Hi, One of my lovely blue eyed kitties, has a hazel eye this morning. She is not squinting. She is not rubbing the eye. There is NO drainage of any kind from it. It looks rusty at the bottom. I think it looks like a blood vessel popped for some reason, and the off color from the blood going...
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    Leukemia vaccine

    Hi, I took my kitty's in for rabies shots, and requested leukemia vaccinations. The vet told me first, that she did not give leukemia vaccines, or sell the vaccine to me, unless she had first tested the cats for leukemia. That sounded reasonable, until she also told me that if a kitten had...
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    Registared Cattery names/ meaningful???

    Hi, When I first started looking for cat information, I assumed that a web page, with a cattery name, meant that the owner had some experience breeding cats or was experienced with quite a few cats of a particular breed. I've since discovered it can mean no breeding experience whatsoever...
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