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Cats have been urinating on loose, porous rocks in front of a neighbor's ground-level window. I have read that vinegar and enzyme products can be used outside, but would that work on rocks and dirt? How much would need to be applied and how often? Any other ideas?

Hello. It has been several months since I last posted here. I received a lot of great advice from you all. Over the summer I neutered 6 cats--at my own expense--from around my apartment complex and also had 3 kittens adopted out. I stopped trapping in the fall and have been feeding what...

I have a cat with idiopathic interstitial cystitis. I have been giving her buprenorphine (buprenex) in her mouth by syringe, but she is a very skittish, uncooperative cat and hides when she senses I am ready to give it to her. It is a tasteless liquid, so it is not that which upsets her, but...

Hi. I wrote here a few months ago about planning for trapping and got some great advice. Thank you all! Wednesday I finally got everything together and started trapping in my apartment complex. I made arrangements with a close-by vet who is willing to neuter one cat per week at a very...

Any recommendations for a brand of carpet cleaner to use with a Steam Vac? I have lots of urine and puke spots on my carpet. I have been treating the spots with Nature's Miracle, but want to do a thorough steam cleaning. Any special cleaning technique suggestions? Is this the correct forum...

My cat Gwenny has idiopathic interstitial cystitis, plus a history of intestinal problems. Before the diagnosis of IC, she had been on Eukanuba Indoor or Hairball dry food, because that was the only food I had found which gave her firm stools. Since the diagnosis, I have been trying to...

A few months ago I bought a Pet-Ease Pheromone Plus Diffuser for my IC cat, but after a month of being plugged in, the bottle of liquid was still full. I called the manufacturer, Nutri-vet, and they told me something must be wrong if the bottle was still full, so I took it back and got a...

Is there a product out there that can highlight pee on a carpet? I have a blacklight, but after 18 years of various episodes of puke, poop and/or pee, my carpet looks like a mottled leopard skin under the blacklight. This makes it very difficult to visually determine new spots--I have to...

Hi. I have been thinking about doing TNR for a small group of cats around my apartments. I have read much of the info on the Alley Cat Allies website. I would like to put notices around the area asking if anyone is feeding these cats, owns a free-roaming cat or know anything about any of...

I have been giving my cat Gwenny probiotics and enzymes but am wondering if I am giving the right kind and amount. This is what I have been mixing for a 10 day supply: 10 capsules of Cosequin 3 capsules of Pro-Biotics Acidopilus 2 capsules of GNC Multi-Enzyme Formula I add this to Gwenny's...

My cat Gwenny has interstitial cystitis and a history of intestinal problems that only have been rectified by a very high fiber diet. She had been on Eukuba Indoor dry, which was the only thing that worked well for her. Because of the IC problem I switched her, over a month's time, to Wellness...

My cat Gwenny has interstitial cystitis. but with no crystals. She has had a few UTIs. I recently read that I could test her pH at home with test strips. I am kind of fuzzy about this--does the pH count if there are no crystals? Forgive me if this is an ignorant question. Today I bought...

My cat Gwenny has recently been diagnosed with idiopathic interstitial cystitis. She has a history of periodically peeing outside the box and been treated twice for bladder infections. She was recently found to have blood in her urine, but no crystals. She has also recently had an ultrasound...

This is my first post here. My initital question is: is there a way to add fiber to dry food? Can I use Benefiber? If so, how much and at what proportion? My 6 year old cat Gwenny has just been diagnosed with interstitial cystitis. I am transitioning her diet to wet food and a dry which has...