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Introducing our rescued male, Porter, to our existing cat Mocha was no problem. We've had Mocha since finding her as a very small kitten last June. She has been the only cat on her turf since then, but did have the advantage of interaction with other cats when travelling. (Roughly once a...

Name picked, and pictures taken! I give you...Porter! (Named after one of my favorite frosty beverages, because he's almost exactly the right color. We also thought he needed a grown-up sounding name since his general expression just says "Relax, I'm way ahead of you.") Right now they're...

We're struggling for names at the moment, but I'm sure we'll think of something. And despite being a little grimy and needing a good brush, he's an incredibly pretty cat. I thought he was black but it turns out he's just very, very dark brown with all the tabby markings, but muted and hard to...

I haven't been around much, but I wanted to check in to report on a new family member. My girlfriend and I have talked about finding a brother for Mocha, our ~1yr old tabby whom we adopted last summer after her litter was found living under a house. She's doing great...still very particular...

Mocha is a pretty well travelled kitty, and though she complains once in a while I don't think she minds. For the holidays I decided to go easy on her and have her stay with my girlfriend's parents the entire time, who live fairly close (70 miles or so) to my own family. That served the...

Thanks for all of the responses and support! At least now I don't feel like this is completely unheard of, even if still a bit strange. Guess the only thing to do is try again and carefully keep at her, hoping she'll calm down about the whole thing. She keeps getting claws caught in fabric...

That's what has me confused, too. My experience doesn't really jibe with anything I have read on the board. As with everything else, it has to be assumed that her behavior somehow relates back to me, I just can't figure out what. All kidding aside, could it be that she senses that I expect...

When I first got my cat I decided to "do the right thing" and leave her claws well enough alone. It wasn't a problem when she was a few months old, as I could just catch her at a sleepy moment and clip the sharp ones down a bit. Never hurt her once as far as I could tell. Then as she grew...

I usually just keep an eye on the nails and clip when I notice that they have become sharp again. They don't all grow at the same rate, but it's usually about once a week that I have to harass Mocha with the clippers. One indication is that she's "sticking" to the carpet, the other is the pain...

This sounds like my 10 week old, whom my girlfriend nicknamed "Little Monster" wthin a day of my adopting her. She goes absolutely nuts from time to time but she always calms down eventually. I stop worrying when she chills out and starts purring, looking for me to pet her and pick her up. So...

As much as I would love to consider taking them in, I really don't have the room. I just adopted my first kitten at the beginning of June (also a stray) and I think that it's a bit early to expand the family. One bedroom apartment, kitten shots, spaying, etc...just don't want to bite off more...

So, when I took mocha to the vet for her first round of kitten shots I asked the about feeding in order to make sure she was getting the right stuff. At the time she was getting about a half to 2/3 of a can of Nutro split up over two feedings, and free feeding dry in between. (These are both...

Mocha, 9 weeks old, has done the same thing since I adopted her. Some nights are worse than others and she's slowly learning that play time is over when the lights go out. And the darker the room the better! Her worst night was when I left the blinds open a bit to let in the air, but she was...

Thanks for the info! I only just now figured out what TNR stands for...I'll look into it and post back with updates. Priority number 1 is making sure that this family doesn't get any bigger.

As I was sitting at my computer last night I just happened to glance out the window and saw something small moving in my apartment parking lot. What I saw was one small cat, and if I had to guess I would say that it's about a four month old kitten. But then I saw another...and then...

My girlfriend's mother currently has three cats and three dogs living with her, and they get along pretty well. The black lab is about a year and a half old, and really good with the cats. Her only fault is being a little **too** friendly, and the big pink tongue sometimes scares them off...

I've never actually seen it, but I think that Mocha does that sometimes when I'm not looking. Sometimes I will come back from work to find three or four bits of dry food next the bowl, and occasionally one little piece turns up in a really odd place like on the floor across the room. These may...

Thanks for the replies! Right now I'm operating under the assumption that her behavior is "normal" considering her age, and that a particularly bad day means that I'm not giving her sufficient outlet for her energy. Mocha does give me more and more reasons to believe that she will turn out...

Yeah, I think another kitty might be in the cards one of these days. I'm not really inclined to add another right now for a number of reasons, but maybe when Mocha is a little older. (I would prefer that the next one be a young-ish but fully grown cat from a shelter.) I can tell you that...

Thanks for the link. That page is where I initially learned what to do, but I appreciate being directed back to it because there are a couple of things I haven't tried yet. Blowing in her face has been the most effective thing to end an attack, but I have yet to try putting her in the bathroom...