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I don't feed raw yet, but I thought that muscle meat had to be fed in certain proportions to organ meats and bones.  This article doesn't say anything about ratios, and has a few other dubious recommendations to boot: http://www.ehow.com/how_8458034_keep-cats-wont-eat-hydrated.html Wanted to...

Is his urinary pH too high or too low?

Yeah, I would make a cat outdoor-only instead of putting him or her down for behavioral issues.  Or try to re-home the cat somewhere else as an outdoor-only cat.

So he went, what, 5+ weeks without problems?  AND you were able to talk him down, such that he stopped his attack and only hissed? THAT'S PROGRESS, CONGRATULATIONS!  You are doing the right things!  Keep doing them! Also, I'd take him to a different vet for a second opinion.  The more I read...

Of course not, and I never ever meant to imply that it did!   What I am speaking out against are the "Oh, they're allergic to cats?  Never ever date them!" attitude; and the "Oh, they're allergic to cats?  Tell them to take an antihistamine and get over it!" attitude, as general...

Weird.  If you could post video of these behaviors, I'd love to see them.  The "ghost" sounds like a puppy play-bow, of all things.  The side of her head and shoulder on the floor with poofed tail?  No idea, though a poofed tail / back is a sign of fear / aggression.  It almost makes me think...

If she goes psycho on your hand after she's fallen asleep, she may just be reacting to being essentially startled awake.  Does this happen every time she falls asleep in your lap / on your hand, or only some of the time? Can you describe the weird fight-with-you behavior she's doing when you...

Would also suggest just keeping her in her own room for a couple weeks (your bedroom?) to let the fear of the old situation wear off, before starting the re-introduction process.

With a MIL like that, I'd start locking my front door.  I'd rather have the inconvenience of that (and have to explain to my friends that my MIL is either clueless or intentionally letting my cat out) than have the poor kitty in the street.   The other thing I'd do in this situation is buy or...

You can move in the middle of the night, just roll or lift your cat off of you.  It's not like there's a 90-pound Malamute trying to sleep on you.   One of my cats is a total lap cat, but spends very little time on my bed if I'm in it; the other won't lap-sit at all but sleeps next to me almost...

Suggest also putting a florescent orange, green, or pink collar on her, with a tag with your phone#, and a bell or two attached, so she's easier to find.  And getting her microchipped if you haven't already.  These things will make it easier to recover her if she does escape. Sympathies...

+1 to previous posts.  I've also taken my slept-in bedsheets and laid them out on the floor of the room the cats will be staying in the first couple of days.  So it overlays your scent onto the foreign scent of the carpet.  The more unwashed stuff that you and the cats have been on from the old...

Unfixed males are easy to spot - they have really obvious testicles.   Cats are territorial, and regardless of gender (former or not), they can and will fight if a strange cat suddenly shows up. The cat in question may be a stray even though he's friendly - lots of cats run away, get lost, or...

Glad to hear you're taking him to the vet.  I've heard stories of people whose cats pee outside the box - right in front of them - as if trying to tell them "something is wrong, something hurts, please help me!".  My roommate had a cat who got a UTI and would pee on his bed, on soft fabric...

If allergies were that easy to deal with, there wouldn't be doctors whose specialty is allergies, there wouldn't be allergy immunotherapy (allergy shots, which are rather expensive), and people wouldn't be avoiding pets because of them. There's a friend of mine who is allergic to cats.  Even if...

Biting/clawing:  in addition to hissing at him and blowing in his face, also get in the habit of saying, "No claws!" or something similar (the words are conditioning for later).  Try re-directing aggression to a stuffed animal about his size.  He may be trying to engage you in play-fighting...

Glad the dude walked away without drama.  Second the advice to change your locks - this guy is not trustworthy and he may have swiped one of your spare keys at some point and made a copy, if you didn't give him a copy outright.   Most people exhibit an outrage response if someone suggests to...

That's exactly what that slow blink is. I build all of my cat trees, because they are ridiculously expensive.  If you know how to use a drill and a staple gun, and have these tools and some drill bits, you can build a simple one for not much.  You may even be able to scrounge for some of the...

Maybe give him a pot of wheat grass to chew on? One of my cats chews on plastic film if he wants grass and there is none available.  I've seen other cats chew on all kinds of things - one got a surprise when he chewed on the bottom of a sealed 3-litre of soda - managed to pierce it and it...

With a kitten that young, I'd get a second kitten.  They will socialize each other, keep each other company, and you'll wind up with two well-adjusted cats instead of one lonely cat.  And thank you for adopting rather than buying!