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  1. justjoops

    Blood in urine

    Hi, I am writing this on behalf of a friend who has a 8 and half moggie/birman long haired cat, who is a bit feral. Always out (sometimes for days on end), catching rabbits, mice etc.  He presented last week, crying and unable to pee but just depositing bits of liquid on the kitchen floor.  She...
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    going away

    I am in a quandary. I have 3 cats that are very 'human'. They never leave the garden and stay on the beds most of the day. They have never been left. Now my partner and I have a chance of a trip just for 2/3 nights in the UK. Now, do I leave them alone. My mum will come and feed them or put them...
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    help .. male has started spraying ....r

    Hi.  I have a 3 year old male that lives with his mother and sister (rescued cats) Never any problems at all, but he has started to spray.  He is neutered, and was at an early age.... Any reasons??  No problems in the home?  I can only think it may be the weather? 
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    Odd Behaviour

    Hi, my mother cat is behaving very strangely.  She is 5 now.  She wants to go out, come in, go out, come in ...... She goes to the wrong side of the door, goes to the wrong window to be seen to let in  I am loathe to take her to the vet at the moment as she was a rescued cat and is extremely...
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    Mooching and following ....

    Hi.  I have 4 cats.  One is fairly feral and stays out most of the time.  The other three are mother and daughter and son.  Recently they just mooch around me constantly ... it can't be for food as they are fed well.  If I go outside they follow, come inside, ditto,, up the stairs they follow...
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    Will they pine?

    Hi there I wonder if anyone can help.  My mum has taken myself and my son on a holiday of a lifetime - I haven't been away in four years and haven't been well.  I have been away 3 days and my partner spoke to me.  I have four cats.  The two females are sitting on the window ledge staring at my...
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    Mother cat behaving strangely towards me?

    I kept two of Gem's kittens, she has been spayed since then, but she has become increasingly hostile towards me.  Not in an aggressive way, but just very offish, she won't let me pet her, runs away when I go to stroke her and its almost if she looks sad?  I am so upset as I rescued her and now I...
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    howling and crying for kittens

    hi, can you help, my kittens have had to go to a cattery so that the mother's milk can dry up, so she can be spayed but she is cryinhowling and desperately looking for tthem everywhere its awful and i feel terrible, what can i do to help her?  the kittens will come back next week after her op . . .
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    Nursing Mother

    Hi, can anyone help.  I have a mother cat and 2 9 week old kittens that are continuing to nurse, abeit not much,but just really for comfort.  I desperately need to get her speyed but the vet says the milk has to have dried up before speying as if they spey and she still has milk it can cause...
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    How will my first time mum cope when her kittens go?

    Hi there My Gem had 4 kittens, one i am going to keep and the other 3 are being rehomed.  The first 2 are going next week and the 3rd one the following week.  My concern is that Gem is such a loving, caring committed mum, I would like to know if she will pine and cry for her kittens?  Or does...
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    Taking kittens away from mum

    Hi any help please .... I have 6 week old kittens that are going to be rehomed within the next couple of weeks.  My concern is that my mother cat is just so protective of them, so adoring to them, she just loves them so much I don''t know how I am supposed to let these kittens go?  Will she look...
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    Weaning Question?

    I am a bout to start weaning Gem's kittens (4weeks), but the trouble is she freaks out if the kittens get out of the box.  She doesn't know what to do, she is unable to pick them up and take them back into the box. (She was found in a bin and had no mother to teach her).  According to my...
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    Very young kitten behaviour

    Hello My cat had kittens 12 days' ago.  they are all doing well.  However when I go to the box the kittens kind of make a 'hissing' sound, they open they mouths but no actual sound comes out?? Its hard to describe.  Like a wheeze?  Could it be respiratory?  They can't all be ill?  Or is it a...
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    How do I know if one of the kittens is getting enough milk

    Hi there I have a young cat who gave birth to 4 gorgous kittens last Sunday morning.  They all seem to be doing well, however, the last one to be born doesn't ever seem to suckling and when 'she' (I say she as the kitten is tortishell) goes to the mother cat, the others seem to knock her away. ...
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