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This may seem like a weird question, but we swit hed our cats to raw food a few months ago and i'm worried the bone content is too high (20%) and i'm starting to see some constipation issues. Is there a way I can reduce it? Could i just add a bit of straight ground meat? If so, how much? Sorry...

We have a bit of an odd situtaion that I wonder if anyone else has come accross. We have 3 adult cats who have lived together peacefully for 3 years or so. Wendel is the oldest at almost 9. He's the top cat in the house and always has been with this group, although he's a gentleman and can...

Just looking for any tips and tricks. Wendel needs to have a urinalysis done, but he alway freaks out and pees when he goes in his carrier to go to the vet. They gave us a special sand he can pee in, but he absolutely won't - he'll hold it in...anyone managed to get a urine sample before? I'm up...

This is one I was hoping never to come across, but if I'm honest with myself about the type of cat that tends to find its way to my house, I shouldn't be suprised. Wendel has kidney disease. We don't know much yet - have to phone the vet tomorrow to see about changing his diet and other...

As much as I hate doing it, I suspect we'll need to switch our guys food soon. They were on Blue wilderness and the boys did really well, but then we finally (after3 years) discovered that the cause of Sybil's ear infections seems to be a severe sensitivity to chicken. So we switched to Blue...

This may sound silly, but does the pee of un-neutered males smell stronger/worse than females or neutered males? Since his neuter, Random's box is much less ripe... Just wondering.

So one of the stray/feral cats in our area has taken to frequenting our porch for meals. Greycat is very skittish - won't come out while we're around at all. I've been putting food out for him and he comes by regularly for breakfast and dinner, but doesn't see any more willing to come around...

There's an ad on this site that keeps freezing my browser due to "long running scripts" I don't know wexcatly what it is since it never loads right, but it's whatever comes before the pot-it note ads in the rotation. (or it could be the post-it ads and they only load after I manually stop the...

Well, we had plenty of warning that Wendel's FIV would eventually mean he'd need dental work. The original guess was "by the time he was three" and my big boy will be 5 next week, so I think we did okay with staving it off as long as possible. Over the past few weeks, Wendel's breath has been...

 I’ve stewed about writing this for the last few days, but I figure I’m doing my girl a disservice by putting it off for fear of not saying what I want to, exactly right. What can you say about a cat who’s had such a huge impact on your life? Freya literally came with my first house. Mike and I...

My little girl has been off for the last couple of days.Hiding more than usual, not eating as much, etc. So we took her in to the vet and are waiting for some blood results. She's lost a bit of weight - not tons, but I'm worried about my little girl. Can anyone spare some vibes?

I'm at a loss on this one. Back in May we noticed Freya was stripping all the hair off her back legs.Took her to the vet thinking it was stress and found out it's an environmental allergy of some sort. Prednisone helps, but I don't want to keep putting her on it every time she has a flare-up...

Hi Everyone,    It's been crazy hot and dry this summer and now with the furnace starting to come on I've noticed my poor Freya (and Wendel and Sybil to a lesser degree) starting to get dry skin. I've stared adding a bit of salmon oil to her food to help but does anyone have any other solutions...

I fully acknowledge that this may sound crazy, but none of you told me I'd lost it the las5t time something like this happenned, so... Tomorrow is the anniversary of my Cotton’s passing. Today, two years ago, was the day my big buddy rallied one last time and had his last ‘normal’ day. After a...

About 16 months ago I had a root canal done...it was followed by a massive infection and another 6 months of treatment and anitbiotics before it was actually finished and sealed up (I also developed a slight phobia of having my jaw frozen during this time and came very close to developing a...

Back in 2010 I posted about my parents having to put down one of my childhood cats - Tiffany. On June 13th, 2012, Alex joined his sister across the Bridge. He passed away peacefully at the age of 21. Alex and Tiffany were litter mates, born in 1991 and came into my life as barn cats. They lived...

I just realised I've not posted pics of Wendel since the first month we had him. So...here are some updated shots of my big guy. He's settled in nicely, is turning into quite the lap cat and is bound and determined that one day he will be Freya's friend. (For her part she's willing to...

Just thought I'd share this because it made me laugh this morning. Freya currently has a bacterial infection and gets pilled twice a day - once when I get up and about an hour after dinner. So this morning I get up and I'm puttering around because it's the weekend and I don't need to be...

So Wendel's latest thing (he's such a typical boy sometimes ) is door-darting. He times it and makes a dash, just as we open the main door. He's made it outside once, where his freaked out mom managed grab him from the driveway. Any suggestions to stop this? We don't have a foyer, although I'm...

It's official. As of today I have to be the one who takes 2 out of our 3 cats to the vet. DH emailed me at work that after a 45 minute struggle, 4 large cuts, one traumatized big orange cat and one husband on the verge of a breakdown he had to reschedule Wendel's vet appointment because he...