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  1. *alleycat*

    Easy to Clean Fountain????

    I am looking for recs. on a water fountain for my 6 babies. It needs to be easy to clean and less than 100.00. I have already tried the Drinkwell Platinum & the Drinkwell 360 and they are both horrors to clean IMO. I have a couple of babies who like to splash and play with the water if I just...
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    Which is better, High-Quality Dry or Low-Quality Wet?

    Here is the situation. Every month I buy canned food for my 6 indoor babies. (Natural Balance, Avoderm, and Nature's Variety). I cannot afford to feed them only these brands so I supplement their canned food with dry Royal Canin 34 (Intense Hairball). So I got to thinking when reading some of...
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    Cat Toy Recs please

    My babies have lots of toys but I am looking to buy a few more. Please tell me what are your babies favorites toys to play with? I need to get my babies more active. Thanks!
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    Another Obesity Question. Please advise.

    I know this has been discussed a lot as I have been searching through threads. One of my babies has an obesity problem. All his siblings weigh about 7.5 lbs or so but he weighs 13.6. I feel so badly for letting him get into this shape. He has issues with getting struvite crystals so he is on...
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    Question about Pet Insurance

    One of my furbabies, Lucky, has had urinary crystals and has to eat special food.  That is listed as a pre-existing condition on what seems to be all pet insurance exclusions.  My question is does that mean my baby Lucky cannot get insurance at all or just that it will not cover anything...
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    Are any of you still using the Chicken Layer Crumbles for Litter?

    I have been reading several sites online (including this one) about people using the Chicken feed crumbles as litter. I bought a bag today (non medicated) and my cats seem fine with it so far. However, I did read where someone was stating that kitties could get some major health problems from...
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    Is activated carbon safe to drink?

    I have a Drinkwell 360 and I usually use the regular filters that are designed for it. Those contain the activated carbon too. I found a place that sells a reusable filter that only requires that you put the activated carbon in yourself (from pet store) and change it like every 2 weeks (I...
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    Weight and Behavior Problems. Please help.

    I have a dilema. Here is a bit of background. I have 6 furbabies living in the house with me. Now the problems: I have one kitty who is overweight and desperately needs to lose weight. This kitty (Lucky) is already on a special canned food (Hills C/D) because he gets stones. I feed him...
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    Having issues getting to eat, please help.

    OK, here is the situation. Everyone was eating fine. Everything was normal (except that one of my 6 furbabies poop was always runny so I decided to switch to a different dry formula) Anyway, all 6 eat both wet and free feed on dry food. I decided to buy some higher fiber dry food to take...
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