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Oddly enough, when I got home the other night, I had decided he would have to be put down. I live in a bad neighborhood full of immigrants to accept these kittens and then just move away, leaving them outdoors. And they all end up with me. I can barely pay the rent myself, but I've now spent...

I agree that it's a shame to have to put a cat down for matters which are mainly monetary. But it's kind of strange. His behavior lately has been very weird. He's starting to bite and scratch, and he just attacked my face as I was just sitting here looking at the computer! That was really...

Back from vet. Ouch. What we have here is a failure to com-yoon-i-kate. The cat has no more calici, but instead has Stomatitis, which is an auto immune disorder that affects the teethe and gums, and may make him un-adoptable. I wish I had know that last month. I would have had him put down...

Thanks, everyone, for the encouragement! Cats are pretty good at accepting whatever situation comes up, and I'm convinced that they're intelligent enough to weigh the alternatives of living on the street or being stuck indoors, and choose accordingly. I think a lot of it DOES have to do with...

Thank you, Hell603. The Animal Rescue League in Salem, MA will only take Salem cats. But I wondered if I paid for the shots and neuter - would they? The lady through whom I was working won't take black cats to the Salem shelter; she says all the witches adopt black cats to hang (Sacrifice)...

I really want to believe that, because it would make my life so much easier and cheaper. I'm a nature freak myself, and believe that animals belong outdoors, but I wonder if I'm just transferring my own outdoorsy-ness onto the cat. I wonder if he could be happy enough with a house and another...

Petfinder.com! I'll check it out. Thank you! Oh, yes, I forgot about coyotes; we have those, too. Ideally cats should only go out in the daytime, so they don't eat the unsuspecting wildlife, or vice versa. I once had a cat who walded with me like a dog, and some cats will tolerate a harness...

I'm fostering a young, abandoned kitten who had calichi, but he's getting better. Alas,I just found out that the shelter which agreed to take him doesn't tolerate "Indoor/Outdoor" cats - which he very definitely is. He spends half his energy trying to get out. And I promised to find him a...

It sounds as though your poor feral was really sick. I suppose I should be grateful that PC seems really healthy, except for the smell... Thank you for the word about grapefruit seed extract. I have chronic pleurisy myself, so we'll both try it! I wondered whether the dry food would make the...

Hi! I have a problem with an abadoned 6 month old cat I'mn fostering- he has calichi, which is an upper respiratory infection causing canker sores and open ulcers in the mouth (And a terrible smell). I've had many different opinions as to how to cure him. They say to feed him only soft food...

Thanks!! That Gerber stuff is expensive, and the only kind he likes is the ham... he can gobble down 2 jars in about a minute. Seems like my home made chicken soup in a blender should be at least as good for him. (No onions..) I found a shelter that would accept him. They said that once he...

Hello again. Alas, I just found out that the cat has Calici, (with mouth ulcers)which, according to Cat Fancy magazine, is potentially fatal, and even after the cat is cured, he will always be a carrier. Someone also told me that the cat can have nothing to eat except this expensive Gerber...

Thank you! As it turns out, the cat is healthy, after all - just a bad cold and canker sores and such - thank goodness! Thanks again. Lin_H

I just rescued an abandoned kitten who's at the vet right now - he may have fe-leuk. He's been in the house for 3 days. Does anyone know which surfaces in my apartment the disease will contaminate,(ALL of them?) how long they will be contaminated for, and how to disinfect the apartment...