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I haven't been visiting this site for a while, but I'm back because of an acute health crisis in one of my own cats. Athena has a history of eating non-food items, and has had surgery to find and remove a draw-string from her stomach. Athena is currently at an emergency vet. On Monday she...

I thought I remembered a nice thread with good descriptions of what the names are for cat colors, but I'm not finding it when I search, and I don't see it stickied (common words I think are making the search problematic). I have a thread over in SOS about the at least 40 cats that my spouse is...

The good news is that I don't have a positive test result to talk about. The bad news is that, in the course of a rescue of a hoarding situation (main thread in SOS, including pictures!), while a vet has agreed to provide an enormous amount of at-cost care, she reasonably does not want any cats...

I made a thread in Cat Nutrition, asking for help with giving my spouse advice on what food to get while taking care of his mother's cats. I got a lot of good advice there. I still want to talk about this situation, but I don't think I need more food advice. Therefore, I've made this new...

Hi all. It's been a while since I've posted here. This is quite long: skip down to the last paragraph if you've not got the time to read. My two cats are indoor cats, doing really well, and eating Iams dry food (original: first five ingredients are Chicken, Corn meal, Chicken By-product Meal...

One of my co-workers is currently living in a friend's apartment while that friend is working in another city for a year. The friend has, and left, a cat (Goblin) in the apartment. Plans changed, and the friend is not going to come back and live in this city, but will go somewhere else...

In American legal terms, assault and battery are two different things. "Assault" is threatening to attack, and "battery" is actually making contact. "Assault and battery" is bad, while just assault or just battery is less of a big deal. Artemis and Athena seem to have a similar breakdown of...

My spouse recently bought a digital camera, so now I've got lots of pictures of my cats! Here is Artemis up close, sitting on the back of the chair by the window. Artemis up close again, this time on the floor. Artemis sitting on my lap. And I'm taking the picture. There was a bit of...

Artemis is being treated for feline asthma. She loves to roll in the litter box, and I've read that the silica dust in clay litters has been implicated in feline asthma. So I decided to switch to as dust-free a litter as I could find, and I choose Yesterday's News. My cats think it is a toy...

I have two black domestic shorthair sisters, and I sometimes have trouble telling them apart. Artemis has shorter, blacker hair, a longer, thinner tail, is about 10 lbs, and has a patch of missing hair on the back of her neck ( scar tissue from mishap during our move across the country)...

My cat Artemis was about a month old when we first saw her. I tried to adopt her mother, her mother rolled over and showed her engorged teats, and I thought "dammit, I've just adopted more than one cat." It took about three months before we could touch any of the kittens (although they settled...

No, this is not an emergency, and the reason I'm posting this is so I can get a better idea of how to communicate with vets, and recognize problems. Both of my cats are spayed, indoor only cats. Artemis is a bit over 2 years old now. I adopted her in Florida with littermates and her stray...