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My Louie Bear had loose, yellowish stools from the day I adopted him as a four month old kitten but only showed diarrhea with blood when he was about nine months old. He'd had worms and been dewormed three times  (after the shelter cleared him as 'healthy) before he was nine months old. After a...

I noted that Gizmo was using her box for poos but no pee balls have been appearing there for two days now. Then I saw her pawing the side of a kitty nest that has been by the door for some time. Sure enough, it's saturated with pee. She must have been using it for some time. I don't want to...

I grew some cat grass for Gizmo in the usual small round plastic container. Today I realized with some shock that it is still healthy and green after nearly three weeks. I was lucky to get it to last for three or four days, before. Same brand as usual...so what did I do differently? Maybe it's...

My upstairs neighbour phoned me in tears yesterday afternoon. Even though we live one floor apart, this is frequently how we communicate. "Something terrible has happened," her voice sobbed in the tiny receiver. I immediately thought that her husband, a young lawyer, had had a serious accident...

I heard Gizmo utter a loud sigh yesterday. Since this was not normal with her I wondered if she could have an asthmatic attack as we were playing with her interactive mouse toy. The gasp occurred in the morning, very early. Gizmo was sick later that day around 7 PM. She insisted on eating most...

Happy Holidays from me and Gizmo!

Before I go on, I will state to all of you that I would NEVER, ever put Gizmo in harm's way. I'm well aware that chocolate is deadly poison to cats and keep it strictly away from her. However, Gizmo seemed to be very interested in chocolate when I was eating it. I would chase her away when she...

The Warner Brothers Golden Collection Volume 4 which was released this month contains an entire disc of cartoons that feature cats. Sylvester is here, of course, but TCS members would be most interested in the cartoons featuring Marc Antony the bulldog and Pussyfoot, an adorable kitten whom he...

I was wrapping gifts yesterday and realized that Gizmo, if she was like most cats, would probably like the tissue paper. She certainly does. The two sheets of purple tissue paper I gave her are now partially shredded and crumpled in the living room. I had the bright idea today of taking her...

I was curious to know if other cats do what Gizmo does when she stretches. Gizmo will sit on my lap curled in a ball. She then stre-e-e-e-etches her front legs and tilts her head back, extending her front legs to the maximum length. While she does this... her ears are flapping up and down...

The day finally came (I knew it would) when Gizmo managed to pull her fur mousie toy into small, easily swallowed bits. She would have been perfectly happy to eat it--that was her objective--but I took the ruined toy away and got her a duplicate of the same one that my parents got her as a...

I went to the secondhand store down the street and picked up a 1930's fur wrap for a small sum. It's in good shape (I didn't believe it was that old) except some of the lining stitching is coming undone. Gizmo immediately rolled up on it in a little ball and had a lovely nap. The store owner...

My book is now available on amazon.com and if anyone is interested in viewing the kitty cartoon cover, you can see it there. Gizmo posed for the cover, was the inspiration for the half-title, and appears in several sketchbook illustrations inside the book. She certainly has earned her keep...

Gizmo and I spent thanksgiving dinner with our neighbours and with two actual Turks (as in "From Turkey".) Everyone had a great time, though we couldn't seem to find the cat for a while. She was discovered in a deep sleep on top of the Turkish woman's sweater, on the sofa, about twelve inches...

I gave Gizmo some Solid Gold Blended Tuna for breakfast today in honor of Thanksgiving. She LOVES this food. Thing is, I don't want her eating tuna much. I would consider giving her other fish though since it's the only wet food she will eat. Unfortunately her previous owners made her into a...

I wish I had one tenth of the grace of this cat. She LOVES clean laundry, so I left this on the bed for her to play with for a while. (It's going to get cat hair on it anyway.) Lately she has taken to crawling inside the yelllow duvet, between the cover and the ticking. Cute, but I have to...

Gizmo just got back from her yearly exam. We took an X ray and she is doing so much better than last year...the little spots on her lungs are gone! And there was no irregularity in her heartbeat. I think that her improved diet is the cause...and also the air filters in the house.

I thought Gizmo would be growing her winter coat around about now... instead, she's shedding almost as amazingly as she does in summer! There were clumps of hair all over the hall this morning and I just relieved Gizzy of a little coaster of felted hair...she won't let me brush her belly, but...

One year ago (on November 4, 2005, to be exact) a young girl brought a shy, polite little four year old cat to my house. An online advertisement described the cat as 'small, agile, declawed female'. I answered the ad and arranged to meet the cat and the girl. The cat was to spend the weekend...

Gizmo doesn't want to take her L-lysine any more. I mix this with Factor CQ-10 and give it to her on the tip of my finger. Lately she's started hiding from me when I go to get her after mixing the medicine. Today she took the medicine, then immediately ate some cat grass (well, a LOT of cat...