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    Recent Ammonia urine smell

    hi! Havent posted in awhile... Recently after my kitty Ivy pees, it smells like ammonia. I am pretty sure this is only recent and I cannot think of anyhting that I have changed. We moved to multi-cat litter but that was a good three months back and this ammonia smell I think has come up in the...
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    ScRaTcHiNg!!!! UGGHHH

    anyone know of any good scratch deterrents??? She is driving me crazy and my couch cannot take much more. I have plenty of different types of scratching posts...some on the ground, some that stand upright. I don't want to go waste money on a spray that may not work so I thought I would ask you...
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    anyone know any good tricks???

    Does anyone have any good tricks or advice for keeping litterbox/catpoo smell down to a minimum? We live in a two bedroom apartment thats not too large with two cats and two litter boxes. For the most part we keep them cleaned out but some of our friends complain about the smell when they come...
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    Playing or fighting?? I CANT TELL!!

    SO it has been about two months now since I brought my new kitten home to my 2 year old cat Hollie. Since then Ivy, the kitten, has gotten alot bigger and I think she is trying to test her boundaries with Hollie. Before they would chase each other and occasionally swipe at one another but now...
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    Christmas photo contest?

    Did people vote on the Christmas pics yet, if they did where was it posted, I missed it!!
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    ewwww!!!

    Anyone else have a problem with their cats wiping their butts on things like carpet....clean clothes....BEDS THis morning my kitten did it AGAIN but on the bed and left a little smear of poop. GROSS. I was SO mad, I had just WASHED them this weekend! I have seen dogs do it but not cats...how...
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    Safe to use same litterbox now?

    So after about a month and a half after introducing the new kitten, they are starting to use only one litterbox. I didn't expect this at all as my older cat is slightly territorial. But after looking in the litterbox that used to be hers (the older cat, Hollie), there is no poop! Which means...
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    dipping paws in water bowl??

    My two year old cat Hollie likes to dip her paw into the water and lick it off. She does this about four or five times a day. She then shakes her paw to get the water off and acts irritated that her paw is wet. Does anyone else have a cat who does this?
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    blood in stool??? HELP!!

    Ok so my boyfriend andI just got in from a week away from our babies and while we were gone we had a friend come watch them for us. (he only visited once a day to feed and water them) Just now I changed the litter in both boxes and Ivy, my 4 month old kitten, jumped right in the new litter to...
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    Leaving my babies tomorrow :(

    So tomorrow my boyfriend and I are flying to WI to be with my family for Christmas. We are leaving the kitties at home and are having a friend come by once a day to make sure all is ok. We bought one of those automatic feeders and waterers for them that are set on a timer. I am SOO nervous. This...
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    Cats eating poop???

    Hi all, So yesterday I fed my kitties around normal feeding time and then afterwards my kitten Ivy used her litterbox (also as normal) and then my other cat Hollie went into Ivy's litterbox and scratched around (still normal). I always figured Hollie did that either to use it also, or just smell...
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    Recently spayed kitten....

    Hello, About a week and a half ago my 4 month old kitten got spayed. They gave her stitches on her abdominal wall, so that she wouldn't chew on them and then they closed her up with surgical glue. The stitches, I assume, will dissolve but I am noticing a scab-like thing on her tummy now. Is...
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    The Hollie and The Ivy....

    Hollie is my 2 year old brown and white tabby and Ivy is my CrAzY 4 month old orange tabby kitten!! The introduction went as well as expected, they get along for the most part, they are not best buds.....yet
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    New from Austin, TX

    Hi! My name is Samantha and I live in Austin, TX with my boyfriend. I just graduated from the University of Texas. We have two kitties: Hollie and Ivy. (We got them both during Christmas time ) Hollie is 2 and Ivy is 4 months. I have posted already a little bit under the behavior forums and...
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    chew toys for kittens?

    My kitten chews on everything...she rips the hell out of feather toys and eats the feathers, she chews on my purse, my hair ties, shoe laces and anything with string. I have taken alot of toys away from her because I want to have them for more than a day. I just wanted to know if there are chew...
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    Is she punishing me??!?!?

    So today I got my little 4 month old kitten spayed. She came home and was CRAZY. She acted like she had just woken up from the longest nap of her life. She was running around like crazy and the vet told me to try and keep her quiet. That was just not possible. She acted like she didn't even have...
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    Old cat jealous and new kitten only wants the old cat's food...how can I change this?

    Ok, Thanks SOO much to all of you who helped on my last post. The kitten has been mostly successfully integrated in with the old cat. My 2 year old cat has pretty muh accepted her as a new member of the family. There is an occasional hiss or growl when the kitten gets too "in-her-face", but...
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    PLEEEASE help! Introducing new cats....???

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