I've been reading and reading thru posts and topics and have run out of time and patience, forgive me. My now 3 yr old cat, adopted last summer, seems to be allergic to chicken. She was skinny when I brought her home from the shelter, where she was only offered chicken based foods (donated by...
I need info/ resources re: cat bites and abscesses, please.
The cat who lives with me (Bu, short for his Egyptian name, Bubu) is an indoor-outdoor. He began life feral, so refuses to ever be shut in. That's OK, as my apartment has a safe garden courtyard, where all the cats who live in my...
Thanks so much, MissMyra, for telling me about your mature cat living with her licking away hair habit for so long. I am reassured. Bu has largely stopped licking his belly, at the moment, and hair is growing back there. However, he's keeping patches on the inside of his back legs bare. He...
The about 7 years old tomcat living with me has groomed away much of the long, topcoat hair low on his belly & between his hind legs. He's a short hair, a mackerel tabby who looks like he's in the extended Egyptian Mao family, with a very thick, dense coat. When I first noticed the long low...