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I'm kitten-midwifing via text message, and I don't know what to do with this. My sister-in-law's cat started doing the normal about-to-give-birth stuff - Making a little nest of old clothes, etc. She was in the room by herself for about an hour. (The family's too freaked out by the miracle of...

Hobbie HATES my cats. She tolerated Diesel, 'cause he was runty and would let her smack him upside the head (no claws!) every couple of days. She seems to think Rascal Scooter Libby, my outdoor shared-custody step-cat is invisible, and does not acknowledge him in any way. She DESPISES George...

Meepy is my six year old finicky chubster. She is RIDICULOUSLY picky. We joke that she'll dig through her kibble and eat eat x's, and leave the +'s behind. She doesn't like treats, she doesn't like wet food, and she doesn't eat out of our hands. All she likes is *grumble* Meow Mix. The purple...

Miku and I are going to the vet on Monday, but dangit, I want some advice now She sneezes a bit more than any other cat I've known. She sneezes once, maybe twice a day. She seems in perfect health otherwise - Gaining weight, frolicking - She's really holding her own for a little gal that was...

If my cats could speak, this is what this morning would sound like. Can you guess which one is seven weeks old and which is seven years old? Miku: Smell my nose. SMELL MY NOSE. Isn't it awesome? It smells like NOSE. Look, there's a box! Let's eat it! George: You do that. I'm going to lick my...

This is a new one for me. Miku, a seven week old female, sems to have some odd litterbox routine. She's done this twice today, and I'm not sure what it's all about. I haven't seen her do this before. She just clawed litterbox-style next to her food dish. Then she ran to the litterbox and did...

Miku's my new best friend. She's a little over six weeks, and I've had her since Sunday. She's just.. Not cat-like. She lets anyone touch her paws, even the back ones! She purrs away when you turn her upside down. She let me put antibiotics in her eye and didn't care about having her claws...

I'm thinking of going raw. We need some dietary changes around here, 'cause five cats on three different foods, two are overweight, two are underweight, one is just fine. So I come to the experts: What do you wish someone had told you on Day 1 of raw feeding that you had to learn the hard way?

So Miku's been poked, prodded, disinfected, and given the seal of approval to begin assimilating with George and Meepy. Meepy's afraid of her. Meepy's afraid of everything. I'm not really worried about her. I'm concerned about George. He's a GINORMOUS cat compared to my 1.2 pound Miku, and one...

I just got an itty bitty kitty today - Probably about six or seven weeks old. One of her eyes is watery. She shows no other signs of distress, is eating, drinking, and curious as all get out - She's completely normal, aside from the watery eye. It doesn't seem pus-y, discolored, smelly, or gross...

Diesel just came home from the vet yesterday after four days of antibiotics, Epogen, another pill (some bacteria capsule) and tests, where we confirmed he has CRF. I'm supposed to give him his first sub-q treatment tonight, and he's hiding under the bed. He's alternating between being...

Typically, George joins me in sleeping through the alarm, only to wake up once my roommate shouts through the door to let me know I'm going to be late for work. I always use my cell phone as an alarm clock. I just switched to a BlackBerry, and every morning since, he SCREAMEOWS in my face when...

I will love you guys forever for any help you can provide. I have three issues dealing with the wacky sociological balance of my 4.5 cat family. The cast of characters - Everyone is altered. Hobbie, a 7 year old female who, at best, dislikes cats. George, a 5 year old male who frolics like...

My Diesel is at least 6 years old.. Though we've never been able to truly guess his age, because he's just very small - He weighs less than a gallon of milk, but isn't thin. He's got stubby little legs, and he's got little polydactyl thumbs on his front paws. In the last week or so, he's...

Today, I went to work for the first time since Diesel came to stay with me. (Backstory: He's somewhere around seven years old, neutered male, super passive, but very emotional. Was an indoor/outdoor cat until something attacked him, now he moved from the country to the "city" and is purely an...

My dad recently had major surgery, and his doctor advised him to eat as much red meat as possible, to help with regrowth of tissues. Would something similar hold true for cats? My Diesel has an open wound that I'm currently caring for with antibiotics in pill and ointment form. I picked up...

I just got my first cat.. For the second time. Diesel was my first kitty "of my own", and my parents and I shared him. I took care of dispensing snuggles, they did all the work.. Until I moved out of my parents' house about eight months ago, and had to give up custody of my furry babies...

Meepy's been acting a bit strange. To give a bit of background.. She's about one and a half, and has been fixed since January or February or so. She was a loafer when she was unfixed (or broken, even) and now, she's graduated to a full couch potato. She divides her time between eating...

My little Meepy got spayed today (sniff - she's growing up!) and I was told that she's glued, not stitched. I was told to keep her separated from the other cats for a day, and to minimize her activities for the next three to five days. Meep's furry family is very frolicky - always chasing...

This is Hobbie. She's two and a half. She's not very pleased that I woke her up to take this picture. This is Brittany. She's two and a half. She's currently residing at the local no-kill shelter about 20 miles from here. They both have a little thingie on their noses that looks like...