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Hello friends, My 10-ish year old cat has been peeing inappropriately. He sometimes likes to pee on soft pillows, so we stopped leaving pillows/dog beds on the floor. The other day he peed on my pillow on my bed! He also has a history or interstitial cystitis and bladder crystals but after...

Hello gang, My first (human) child is due in a month. We’ve put the bassinet in our bedroom and made it a kitty free zone at night to prepare for the new arrival. So far it’s not going well. One of our cats stealthily peed in the dog bed in the bedroom one morning when the litter robot was...

Hello friends, For as long as we have had cats, we have fed them twice a day (5:30am and 5pm). For the last few months, one of our cats has started hassling us for food several hours before mealtime, sometimes as early as 3am. He gets our attention in the morning by knocking things off the...

Hello! Both of my cats developed impacted anal glands after two years of Pro Plan Urinary Tract Health wet food. Their veterinarian said they can't eat it anymore and prescribed Royal Canin Fiber Response food for them, but it only comes in a kibble. Both cats are eating the kibble and drinking...

Help! I bought a 6lb, $50 bag of Royal Canin Hydrolyzed Protein kibble for my cat, and two days later had to switch him to a high fiber diet. Now I have a 6lb (minus 1/4 cup) of food that I can't use. What a waste! What can I do with it? The local shelter won't take open bags and I can't return...

Howdy! We've been having an anal leakage issue at our house. Poopy spots on the couch, on the floor, sometimes scooting on the end tables. One cat had full anal glands for the first time in 13 years recently, the problem cleared up, and now it's back but I think it's not him this time. The other...

Hi gang, Zach (age 5-ish years) went to the vet today as he has been crying in the litter box and leaving small tinkles on the carpet right outside the box. He is also back to howling at night as soon as we've all gone to bed, which he hasn't done in a couple of years. The vet wasn't able to...

You may recall my long, drawn out post about Zach and his rx diet for struvite crystals.  We moved everyone to wet food and I assumed Zach would slim down a little bit since he's not on kibble anymore. He started out a little on the bigger side (12.7 lbs - not fat, but not svelte and sneaky...

Zach has struvite crystals. LOTS of them, according to the vet, and very alkaline urine.  He needs rx food for the rest of his life.  Yikes. Here's the weird part: she sent him home with rx for tramadol (for pain, nothing weird there except he won't take it) and amitryptilene, "an anti-anxiety...

Hi gang!  I need some help. My three cats currently eat Purina One for Sensitive Systems.  I started them on it after I brought Zack home and Sweet Kitty had intermittent episodes of diarrhea. I tried her on many hypoallergenic grain-free and prescription foods which didn't help. I think it was...

Howdy, This problem has been plaguing me for a while. Some of my cats dig a hole in the litter before they wizz, so they wizz on the plastic bottom and cover it up with clumping litter.  When I go to scoop the litterbox, it has created a cement on the bottom of the box which I have to chisel...

My 8-ish-year-old cat, Mean Kitty, is a slug.  She doesn't play with toys, doesn't respond to catnip, hates other animals, won't let anyone hold her.  She's never in a hurry to get anywhere, ever.  She only likes to go out on the lanai and lay by the pool in the sun, or sleep in a secret tent...

Ahoy, I'm Alicia, or as my husband calls me, "Mrs H" whenever I'm doing something domestic. Like in commercials where the mom comes out with a tray of snacks and juice for some kids playing basketball and all the kids say, "Thanks, Mrs H!" I am not domestic.  I am an assembler of food.  My...

Ahoy, I have a mystery breed cat named Zack who looks like a Havana Brown and Oriental mix.  He's big with long legs, very muscular, and has a pointy head with big ears.  He is around 3 or 4 years old, neutered, and I got him from the Humane Society who took him in as a stray.  He has turned my...