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My Lily was spayed at the beginning of December too and had a huge incision of about 2.5 inches, but it's healed up very well and you can't see she's had it done apart from the fact that there's a slight break in the fur around there. Her mother had a tiny really neat incison and it was fully...

It could be a food allergy. I ran out of the cats normal food over Christmas and had to feed cheap food for a couple of days and two of them started having weepy eyes which got better after a few days on the proper food. My dog had the same problem before I moved to a grain-free dog food. It's...

My boy was neutered at seven months (as he got sick in time for his first appointment!) and was back to normal again the next day. Usually even the female ones pick up after 3-4 days, so it's unusual that your two are still so listless - but then all cats are different. I would consider bringing...

I have heard of somthing like that, I have a friend whose cat was spayed, but they left behind a bit of ovary or something and she suddenly started going into heat again age seven or eight. They didn't want to operate for it as the cat was very vet phobic, so she was given some sort of...

That seems on the high side - it is 92 Euro in Ireland at the moment, I had my cat done a month ago and that's what they charged me. My vet gives a 10% discount for having two animals treated at the same time by the way - which I got for their shots and their spay / neuter. I paid 150 Euro for...

If I give my dog any wet food, the cats all have their noses in it before he gets a chance and he ends up sitting there looking unhappy... Forbidded fruit is still the sweetest I guess! They also eat bits of his kibble occasionally. None of them have ever suffered any ill effects because of it -...

Poor fellow! Just give him a little bit at a time and feed him every few hours until his stomach recovers from the long fast. A check up by the vet would be a good idea too, as cats can suffer organ damage if left without food for a long time.

So sorry to hear that. My cat was PTS with the same symptoms, as she couldn't keep anything down and was just wasting away slowly. I hope there's something the vet can do...

I think it's normal to lick it a very little bit - I've had four female cats spayed and one male neutered in my time and they all licked a tiny bit, but caused no problems. After all, they've had that area operated on and it smells funny etc and it's natural to want to lick it for them. Just...

I had my two done at once, as they're siblings and they really comforted each other at the vets, who let them snuggle in their carrier together as soon as they woke up. Oscar didn't get much attention and sympathy as he was so much less affected by it, but I don't think I was any more stressed...

Yes, but I believe that they don't really go into heat until February or so, as the longer daylight stimulates it. You can get them spayed after they go into heat, the mother of my kittens was in heat whe she got spayed - we had to leave it until her breasts were gone and she was a real pain...

My two monsters are indoor / outdoor cats and if the weather is fine they get up and play in the garden around 5am. If the weather is bad or we're keeping them in for some reason (they were spayed and neutered last week), they start chasing each other around the house from 5am or earlier and...

I hope she gets better soon! My cat broke her tail when she was about a year and a half old and lived to be 12, but I think it must have been lower down the tail than yours. She might be holding it in as it hurts to go the toilet in her condition? I hope so!

Thanks emmylou, We're in the process of training them to not go on the counters - they have a tendency to try and climb on the table etc. They're quite sneaky about it though, so it's hard to catch them! I thought my late cat was very well trained and didn't go on the counters, but I have a...

My last cat was smarter and managed to get up and down without damaging anything, but these two are a force of nature! I think that training them to only look out the windows upstairs is the best idea actually... It's a better view anyhow. I'm not that frantic about keeping the house looking...

I've never got a cat from anywhere, they've always got me! My late cat Dancer was dropped off at my house by her mother, who appeared out of the forest one night, decided we were nice people and went back to get her kitten. She left after one night (although she did come baclk a week or two...

My two seven month olds have been pretty bad for my net curtains up to now, to the extent that the living room set ended up in shreds. They don't use them to strop their claws on them or anything, but tend to try and jump on the windows and rip them when they get in the way. So I've just bought...

Don't worry, they're tough little things! I had my two spayed and neutered last week and my Oscar got hardly any of the attention afterwards as he was so fine! He was playing again that evening and was generally so well that I took a second look just to make sure that he was actually neutered...

In Ireland no vet will require shots before they neuter - it never even comes up. I had the kitten's mother spayed in July and the vet said that as she was a stray it would be best if she wasn't vaccinated until next year in case she's had them already with her last owners. Which really makes me...

Antibiotics dfinitely make them feel ill, but keep a close eye on her eating and drinking habits over the next while, as the anaesthtic can cause kidney damage etc in older cats. I don't want to freak you out or anything, but it happened to my cat and I assumed she was just not eating much as...