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Yeah - I figured that they were coming up, which is why I was a bit surprised that my neighbors hadn't noticed them. I'll get in touch with the landlord as soon as I get back. I *think* these are carpenter ants - they're big and black. Hopefully that will spur them to take some action, since...

I'm on the second floor, and my downstairs neighbors haven't noticed a similar issue. Interesting. I do think I've managed to determine that the entry point is my in my living room, at the baseboards. I've dusted liberally with DE where I think they're coming through. This is *naturally* all...

Okay -will look into these! Any tips on keeping ants out of the food bowls? I found one crawling around in Mal's wet food yesterday morning and it was...unpleasant, to say the least. I've heard that if you spray vinegar solution under the dishes that can help deter them?

Hi all - This past weekend I've seen about ten or so large black ants crawling around my apartment. I don't have a clear idea of where they're coming in from or what they want - the majority of them have *not* been in the kitchen or the bathroom, so they don't seem to be making a beeline for...

I'm going to be taking a long overseas vacation this summer.  I'll be gone about two and a half weeks.  I'm excited, but also worried about my cat.  She is an only cat, and this point getting a second cat is not an option. I've taken trips of about eight days before, and she's been fine with...

The short, painful answer is that I'm down to one cat.  I really, really don't want to talk about that, or go through long debates about what I should have done. This has mostly resolved the complaining, except he still has low level symptoms, so now I'm going around taping all the holes around...

It's not that I don't want to be sympathetic to his allergies. He doesn't seem like a terrible person. I picked up some cat wipes at the pet store, and I vacuum once a week to get hair up. I just feel miserable and wish I could move. It's hard to move to a new place, be told you can have...

We think it's probably the central air system.  I got an e-mail from the landlady this morning saying that she didn't know the downstairs tenant had cat allergies, but that I shouldn't worry because the landlord has always allowed pets.  So at least there's that. Given that I've also gotten...

So I just moved into a new apartment last week.  Today my downstairs neighbor politely informed me that he is allergic to cats, and that his allergies have been flaring up.  He mentioned that he and his wife would be an air purifier for their apartment, but then started to talk about dander...

Hi all - I have two cats, a male and a female.  Female is almost three, the male is one and a half.  I also just moved into a new apartment, which is in an older building with hardwood floors. This morning there was a note under my door from my downstairs neighbors.  They were very polite and...

At our last vet checkup, the vet told me that my Mal is starting to get just a wee bit chubby - not a whole lot, but getting there.  I'm inclined to start feeding her just canned food and raw, with no dry food except for when I go out of town.  The vet keeps saying, however, that dry food helps...

Thanks for the responses.  I wouldn't just abandon Alex - the group I adopted him from, which is a foster organization, has a clause that says if at any point you cannot keep the cat, you must return it to them.  So he would go back there. I am thinking I will put forth extra effort in July and...

Hi all - I feel at my wit's end.  I have two cats.  Mal is my baby, and I love and adore her and we'll be together forever.  I've had her almost two years.  Alex I got one year ago and I don't like him.  I just don't. He's a perfectly good cat.  He's socialized, doesn't bite at me, is cute.  I...

Hi all - My cat, Alex, has recently taken to scratching at the underside of my mattress.  I have a platform bed, with the mattress laying directly on the wooden slats.  I've found a few small tears in the mattress fabric, but nothing too major - I trim his claws regularly, so that probably...

I'm going to be out of town at least three times this coming summer, once for a whole week, and I am feeling horribly anxious about leaving my two cats.  I don't quite know where it's coming from, to be honest - I've been out of town before, and have a perfectly lovely pet-sitter who comes by...

I'm pretty sure it's aggression.  They fly apart as soon as I clap my hands and I can touch them right after, but Mal is making seriously unhappy noises, and I've always been under the impression that play should be mostly silent. She doesn't seem intimidated or cowed or anything like that, but...

Thanks for the responses. I've had Alex since June, so they've been together a while. The really awful night fighting is more recent.

Hi all - My two cats Mal (female, almost 2 years) and Alex (male, almost 1 years) have started fighting consistently each night. From what I can tell, Alex is the aggressor. He starts jumping on her and chasing her, and even though she starts growling and hissing at him, he won't back off. It...

Hi all -  I recently moved to a new apartment. It is a very small (610 sft) one bedroom, and since I moved my two cats have been going NUTS.  At my old place, there weren't too many problems at night - they weren't constantly chasing each other under the bed, or getting into spats.  I could...

Hey all - I'm considering getting soft paws for my kitten.  I was never as dedicated as I should have been in teaching my cats to stay off the furniture, so while they chase each other around they inevitable leap up on my dining table and leave scratches.  It's really nothing I can't leave with...