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Hey all. I have a 5yo DSH female. She's generally got one of the world's most impressive appetite. As in, she'll devour her food an then act like you've been starving her all day. She also has seasonal allergies. This past weekend she pulled out all of her fur in a small patch on her rump...

Our cat Audrey was put on oral steroids to help her get over an episode of chronic dermatitis, starting about two weeks ago. Unfortunately, I think it messed with her immune system, because since yesterday she's been sneezing every now and then and occasionally shaking her head. Just now, I...

Hi all. My Aunt is currently struggling with her very high energy siamese and a her very high energy dog. The animals get along with each other fine, but they're driving my poor aunt up the wall. The siamese apparently gets the night crazies at around 4:30am, and the dog is just hyper and...

Sorry to start a new thread, but I wanted to make sure this got read. Audrey had a dental and a skin biopsy today. She was sent home with a liquid pain med to be taken orally to help with the biopsy discomfort. She is horrible about taking any medication, so my husband and I got a firm hold...

I think I've posted here a few times in the past about Marlon. We've had him for close to three years and estimate that he's between 3.5 and 4. He's neutered. We're nearly at the end of our ropes with Marlon. On the one hand, when he's in a mellow mood he is incredibly sweet. He likes to be...

Hi all. I'm writing about my 3.5 year old spayed female DSH. We adopted her from a woman who found her as a stray when she was around a year old. At the time, she been stuck outside during the winter in Toronto for at least a month. She was missing a decent-sized patch of fur near her rump...

Hi all. My husband and I have finally given up with trying to keep our DLH Marlon tangle-free. We got him as an adult, but his fur was much shorter then. We knew we didn't want to deal with a long-haired cat, but now we've got one anyway! It's too bad, because he's an absolutely gorgeous...

We had a bad experience with one of our cats this weekend. Marlon is a neutered male, around 3 years old. He's always been a little off, but he's generally very sweet with my fiance and me. We've known for a while that he can be territorial with certain people, but that's only a problem if...

Hey all! One of our two cats, Marlon, has a wonderful long coat. His belly is covered with the softest, finest, most incredibly dense fur I've ever seen on a cat. It tangles fairly frequently under his armpits. He hates being brushed (we got him when he was almost a year, and he'd obviously...

Our three-year-old neutered boy, Marlon, has decided that he is king of the household. He and our other cat have worked this out between them, so that isn't a problem. What is an issue is that he is continually trying to assert his dominance over us. He's constantly underfoot whenever he...

I read a blog called Tetrapod Zoology, and the author has recently had a few articles about "mystery" big cats. The most recent post actually includes photos, and I thought you all might be interested. The cat looks large, but there's no scale reference, so a lot of people are conjecturing...

I've tried searching for info on this, but bizarrely, can't find anything. Is it normal for long-haired cats to have curly whiskers? We have a long-haired orange tabby boy with whiskers that are lopsided and very kinky. They also seem to break pretty easily. Could be totally normal. We're...

Hi everyone, I know there've been posts on this before, and I've been reading up, but I wanted advice on a specific situation. My mom just found out that she's going to need to travel for work. She'd planned for this, and was told that it would only be a few days at a time, but she just found...

I'm going to a friend's wedding tomorrow, and will be gone from Friday morning until mid Saturday afternoon. I have no idea how I didn't think of this, but I have no care plan in place for my two cats! Don't ask me how this slipped my mind, because I'm usually super-organized about this sort...

I thought I might pick the hive brain with a random question, if you don't mind. Anyone heard of hypocholesterolemia (not hyper)? I gave blood a few weeks ago and just got free cholesterol test results in the mail. It's not broken down by type, just the overall level. Mine is 141, and the...

I can't be the only one this happens to. Anyone else have some Petfinder-induced moments of longing? Here's mine. Every now and then when I'm bored I make the mistake of looking at Petfinder. My current position in terms of adopting more animals is no more until I'm in a graduate program...

MODS: My apologies-- I just realized that I posted this in the wrong forum. Can you move it to SOS? Hello all! My boyfriend and I recently noticed that down the street from us, under a grating, is a mother cat and her two or three kittens. They are still nursing but have their eyes open...

Hi all! I haven't been around in ages, but I used to post every now and then. I have two cats, both around 1.5 to 2 years. I'm including a picture to refresh memories. (Also to bribe you ). Don't let the cuteness fool you, though: they don't cuddle very often. The gray one, Audrey, is...

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm on a crappy internet connection and the search feature won't load. I just found one of my two cats playing with a bag of rat poison. We've just moved into a new apartment and had no idea it was there. The bag she had was totally intact, but was...

Sorry if this has already been discussed. I tried searching the forums, but never have much luck with the search feature. We don't have central air in our apartment, and there's no way for us to install window units. We're only here for another two weeks, but in the meantime, we're a little...