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    Cat enclosures and screened in porches

    Ours is an indoor cat who LOVES being outside. And in our area being outdoors on his own is not an option. We have a lovely deck that I would sit on and read for hours before Cappy came into our lives 2 years agi. Now, he just meows and meows to be outside with me. Harnessing him and tying him...
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    Replacing a cat tree ?

    Our three year old has had a certain cat tree since we got him. He loves it. It's a floor to ceiling model and he loves sitting on the very top level away from everyone. When we have people over. It's his safe place. When he's afraid he doesn't run under a bed, he goes to his highest level. It's...
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    How to keep my cat off the screens!

    Help! Now that spring and summer are here and I have to keep the windows open, my cat Cappy, decides that the screens are a good place to flex his claws. Ugh! How do you stop that behaviour? I don't want our screens shredded. Lin
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    Keeping Cappy calm thru daily ear treatments

    I'm putting this on the 'behavior' forum rather than the health one, because this is a potential behaviour challenge. Our dear Cappy has ear polyps that require daily cleaning, anti-biotic drops 3 X a week, and once a week a thorough squirting with some saline cleanser that we got from our vet...
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    cat acne

    Our 2 1/2 year old cat has suffered with sores on his chin since we got him from the shelter a year ago. Our vet thought they might be scratches "from his former days when he was a tom cat" (before he came home to us, neutered and loved and we turned this homeless street fighter into an indoor...
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    Very interesting documentary on cats

    I didn't know quite where to post this, but I just watched a most interesting documentary on cats. It's on the CBC TV program - Doc Zone and called Cat Craze. It was on CBC TV here in Canada, but I believe it can be watched online at: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Doc_.../ID=1724295516 A...
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    Car traveling in a car - do we feed?

    We're taking our cat on a two day car trip to visit my mother for Christmas. We're leaving tomorrow early a.m. and staying in a motel for one night. Our cat will be in a carrier, but there will be times when he'll be out of it. Our back seat will have his litter, and cat kennel with his favorite...
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    Our little 'Mr. July'

    There'll be no living with our cat! He is 'Mr. July' in our city's SPCA calendar for 2011. lin [/IMG]
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    poopy Bum

    Sometimes - well more often than not - our cat trots out of the litter box with a poopy bum. If we notice him right away we clean it off. He's a gentle cat and doesn't mind. He's an indoor cat. It bothers me that he seems to take so long to groom himself and clean up after using the litter box...
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    Are all cats this modest?

    Our 2 1/2 year old black darling of a cat is VERY modest about his litter box habits. If we happen to walk past him when he's using his box, he'll crouch down, or he'll meow expressing his displeasure. His litter box is in the same room where we store a lot of boxes, and yesterday afternoon we...
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    Oh how I've missed my Cappy

    We are sitting in the airport waiting to board the plane which will take us HOME finally after being away visiting family for 3 weeks. It's been a lovely visit - it always is when one gets to spend time with their grand children - but OH how we've missed our Cappy. We have had a friend stay at...
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    Oh - I am away from 'Cappy' for 2 1/2 weeks!

    This morning we boarded a plane to visit relatives and consequently left our 2 year old lovey black cat, Cappy, a rescue cat the we have been happy to be 'parentlng' since March when we got him at the SPCA. He is just about the most perfect kitty, and we love him and already miss him. We have...
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    Some questions about raw meat chunks

    I'm not posting this on the 'raw' feeding site because we don't feed an only raw diet. We feed our two year old black cat, Cappy, 1/3 cup of Purina Pro Plan for indoor Adult Cats in the a.m. Often, I will stick a pin in a fish capsule (That we take) and squeeze the fish oil on the food. Is this...
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    Our 'Cappy's' summer on the boat

    I just posted a few pictures of our two year old black cat. We've had him only since March, but he's taken to the boat - as you can see by these pictures. I'm posting a link here - I hope I'm doing it right. lin http://s833.photobucket.com/albums/z.../Cappy/Summer/
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    Raw hamburger meat?

    I'm posting this here rather than the 'raw food' forum, because I don't strictly feed Cappy a raw food diet. Rather he gets Purina Pro Plan turkey and rice formula for Indoor Cats. I know, I know, it's Purina, but I've tried some other more expensive brands - some he liked and some he did not -...
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    Cappy on our sailboat

    We are now living on our boat for a month's vacation (Our boat is essentially our summer cottage), and of course our two year old black cat Cappy (short for 'Captain') is aboard. We have only had Cappy since March when we got him at the SPCA. All along we've been training him to be a boat cat...
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    Cappy really DID this!

    I talk to my lovely two year old black cat as if he knows exactly what I am saying. I never leave the house without saying something like, "Cappy, I'm going shopping, I'll be back in an hour and you be good when I'm gone." And then when I'm home I give him a snuggle and say, 'Were you a good boy...
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    How long does kneading continue?

    Our two year old black cat sleeps with us and every morning he kneads on us, licking our shirts and purring. He is such a sweetie! I was just wondering - I know this behaviour is reminding them of their nursing when they were kittens - but how long does this behaviour continue? Just curious. lin
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    Cappy went swimming - AGAIN

    We took our Cappy to the boat again, and I thought he would freak as we got closer - considering last time he fell into the water! But he didn't. We went out to our mooring, got onto our sailboat, did some cleaning and had supper. He just slept on the couch the whole time. Then, on the way to...
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    Our cat went swimming! (Not by choice)

    We've been taking our cat aboard our sailboat - which is our summer cottage. We've done research and talked to people with cats on board, and since we got 'Cappy' we've been leash training him with a walking jacket. We've had him on the boat a number of times for short trips and he's doing...
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