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Our very love able 3 year old Russian Blue is scooting due to an irritated butt caused in turn by large, hard stool. He eats an almost all wet diet and in an effort to make his stools softer we have added in water, pumpkin, broccoli, and "laxatone" but although the stools are now a bit smaller...

One of our two cats is like a dog when it comes to food and our doorless kitchen- diving for food scraps or residual juices in the sink, and anxious to check out the stovetops even when they are hot. It's a chore putting away cooked food immediately while it is still warm, eg by storing it in...

It was around 6 mos. ago that we adopted a friendly, playful 2 y.o, male Russian Blue as foster-brother for our lone 4 y.o. Female tabby. We did all the textbook things to acclimitize them to one another, and though now most of the time they coexist, they generally retreat into their own...

A 2 year old male that we recently rescued as our second cat has no resporatory history in his medical file (owner who eventually abandoned him to shelter did at least have regular checkups, medical files, etc), is muscular, lean, and has tremendous energy for vigorous running... However, after...

We had his glands expressed and have dewormed him a second time just in case that was the problem (though no sign of inflamation there in vet's office)... So perhaps this is a pure behavioiral problem- or perhaps something else is making his butt itchy? His stool is decently formed- not rock...

The cat we are fostering either over groomed himself or, more likely, got cut there in a fight with our resident cat (we did all the textbook things to intro. The two but they still play fight- however I fear our resident, unlike the foster, is actually extending her claws). It is not bleeding...

This is a new thread on our ongoing saga introducing an energetic 2 y.o. Russian Blue boy to our gentle lower energy 4 y.o. Tabby girl. The details of the see-saw introductions over the past 3+ weeks are on my other threads, so to cut to the chase: The "funk" is that our resident now (1)...

This is the latest new problem we just discovered from our 2 y.o. New boy. His stool is firm and formed but he is also lazy about covering well- Our resident female by contrast is impeccable with hygiene. Any solutions to this behaviour? This is happening while we are also in a see-saw...

We are three weeks into fostering a beautiful, friendly but extremely energetic Russian Blue boy, 2 y.o., 2 weeks since allowing supervised together time withour older 4 y.o. but much smaller and much more laid back female tabby. For the first week of supervised introductions together, our...

I am grateful for all the feedback I've been getting here on a difficult new cat introduction we've been going through. One of many things that I would like to try, to possibly help make the two cats (resident 4 y.o. girl and new 2 y.o. bigger male) supervised sessions more positive for them...

This is a follow up to an earlier thread since we seem to be making no progress. We are now over two weeks since we began introducing our new rescue cat, a very friendly 2 y.o. male Russian Blue, to our (with us) laid back and gentle female 4 y.o. orange tabby... We kept them separated for a...

Nine days ago we finally started fostering (with intent to adopt) a very warmhearted, but fairly energetic 2 y.o. rescue Russian Blue male, 14 lbs, to our very sweet, gentle but spoiled 4 y.o. female orange tabby, which is smaller at about 8 lbs. We are doing all the standard recommended things...

We have managed to practice leash and harness walks indoors with our purely indoor tabby, excited to introduce her to some outdoor walks.  However, before we begin, we have two concerns: 1. Do indoor cats suddenly become very demanding to be let out?  I realize every cat is unique- ours is a...

We would like to get a companion rescue cat for our sweet but sometimes lonely young adult orange tabby. Apart from finding a cat suitably laid back for her gentle personality, our biggest concern is that our tabby had urinary tract inflammation a couple times in her first two years as kitten...