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We have three cats; two are entirely indoor, one goes out in the back yard with us, a few times a year, and comes back in when we do (Fremont, CA). We had gotten lax about flea treatment for awhile, because we went for months without her going out at all (typical in winter, when we don't go out...

So last summer, we fostered four kittens... once we started showing them at the adoption site, the two girls adopted out quickly, but the boys didn't... and in the couple of weeks that we were showing them, we simply fell in love with them, they are so beautiful!!! So we adopted them... Leo is...

Thank you for all of your comments about a heating pad for our elderly outdoor cat Biggles... Sadly, we have a new issue with him that I'd like to ask for advice about... This has happened a couple of times before, but this is the first time it's been so clear to me. Biggles had been out front...

We have an elderly cat here; he had been hanging out in our yard for *years*, but would not let us approach him. We left water out, but never left food. This past summer, he suddenly changed his mind and decided to be-friend us, crawling into milady's lap and allowing scrubbing and such...

I've really been wondering, whether there is actually any difference in formulations and results for the different types of cat foods (kitten, senior, etc)? I read the recent 'senior formula' thread here... while several posters sound quite confident in their statements, it's not at all clear...

I'm not sure which group this post is most appropriate for, but this is close; feel free to move it if there's a more appropriate group. Well, milady and I have been talking for years about fostering kittens; there is *always* a tremendous demand for foster homes around here, and we love cats...

Okay, I see this issue being discussed piecemeal in several threads, but would like to start an overview discussion in one place. I've recently switch our three cats (two are over 10 years old) from generic Friskies soft food to Blue Buffalo, which they clearly prefer. However, there are...

We've had multiple cats in our house for all of the 20 years that we've lived in our home. Most times the cats get older, they lose a *great* deal of weight, though they otherwise don't show any health issues. This seems to happen about the time they hit 10 years old or so. It is happening...

I searched through various related threads here, but none are quite what we're experiencing, so wanted to ask y'all explicitly. We have three cats, down from five a couple of years ago.  We have such a wonderful family!!!  Everybody uses the litterbox reliably, including Yoda, our 10-year-old...

Well, we've been feeding all of our four cats wet food for a couple of weeks now, after giving them dry food all their lives (from 4 to 16 years).  I've noticed two dramatic changes over this experimental period... Change 1 - Jasmine (our 6YO girl, who had bladder stones last summer) I keep a...

I'm certain this topic has been discussed a million times, so if there's a FAQ or pinned topic somewhere that covers this, please feel free to point me there... We have four cats in our house; one is a 16-year-old male who was entirely outdoor until recently.  The other three are mostly indoor...

We have three indoor cats (and one outdoor cat, but he's not immediately relevant to this topic)... one of our cats, our 6-year-old matriarch Jasmine, has had urinary-tract problems twice now; the second was kidney stones, requiring $1700 in surgery.  The vet prescribed Science Diet C/D (of...

We have a wonderful, elderly cat here; he's been with us for 14 years! He's the last of our outdoor cats before we started keeping them indoors; we couldn't bring him in because our younger Siamese would never give him any peace... and besides, he was really happy outdoors!!  We called him...

Well, we're facing a dilemma now... Rocket is doing better, though he's not entirely up to 100%. However, he's healthy enough to start asking to be let outside again. Well, for now he can't go until we're done giving him all his medicines. However, ultimately we have to choose. We can't give...

We have an aging cat (the Rocket) in our household (13+ years old). He's one of our earlier adoptees who was an outdoor cat. He's generally been in excellent health, solid and muscular, the guardian of the yard. Over the past couple of years he had been licking one spot on his back completely...

We have two outdoor cats, about 12 years old, and two indoor cats about 4 years old. Everybody's been getting along fine. Recently, we adopted a neighborhood kitten; the kitten has a crippled front leg but is otherwise in good health and gets around fine. I'm guessing she is about one year...

I've been pondering this for awhile, and dauntingfire's comments have got me thinking about it again. I've been skeptical about pet insurance companies, since they aren't regulated or anything, I've been a little leery of getting involved with them. So can some of you fine folks here give me...

I live in a lower-income neighborhood in town here (Fremont, CA). The area's not trashy or anything, but it's the cheaper-housing part of town, and many of the people here live on pretty modest incomes; few new, expensive cars, fancy stereos or any of that stuff. Pets of all kinds are VERY...

Okay, we don't have enough work to do with our own four cats, so we've been watching this other neighborhood cat. She's been around for years, and has always been "sorta" friendly; if she was in the yard, she'd let us skritch her, she'd talk nicely but just slowly walk away. She always looked...

I've been pondering Sara915's crisis; I also suspect that having a companion would help with her attention problems, but I also predict that the introduction itself will be fraught with difficulty, given that it will be another change for an already strung-out cat. I was wondering if...