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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...

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...

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...

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...

I know there's probably no real solution for this other than, "He's a kitten!" but I suppose I'm looking for a little commiseration.  Alex is maybe five months old or so.  He just got neutered this week.  He's insane. He's constantly tearing through my apartment, so all night I can hear the...

Hi all - My apartment is going to get the baseboards sprayed this Wednesday to (hopefully) solve a potential brown recluse issue (ugh).  I've made arrangements to take my cats to the vet Wednesday before work, and leave them overnight.  I'm planning on picking them up Thursday morning. Is that...

Hi all -I moved to Missouri from Maryland about four months ago. Today, when I lifted up a rug to vacuum under it, I had the dubious joy of discovering the carcass of a brown recluse spider. Because the fiend was dead, I had the luxury of taking my time in identifying it and, yep. Recluse.Okay...

So last night I noticed a somewhat largish brown spider creeping across the kitchen floor.  Now I respect spiders' right to existence, and understand that they have a vital role to play in our ecosystem.  But if I see them, it's over.  They must die.  I grabbed the paper towel roll and prepared...

I took my Mal in to the vet today because she's been moving a bit slower this past week, and a few times her breathing has seemed quick, even when she's resting.  The vet thinks it could be asthma.  He gave her a steroid shot and we'll see how that goes over the next few days. In terms of...

My kitten has had persistent loose stool.  Then a pet store employee gave me some samples of raw food - Rad Cat and Primal - and since given him those, there's been a turnaround!  Things are looking much better.  :) I would like to keep him on raw, and see about transitioning my other cat to...

The cat below is my Malefica.  She's a little over 1 year old, and at her most recent vet visit, which was about two months ago, she weighed 11 lbs.  Right now she doesn't look like she's fat, just fluffy - very, very fluffy.  The amount of fur she has makes it a bit tricky to gauge just how big...

Today I was inspecting my Mal's toenails, and I noticed something funny on one of them - it looks like the claw has split in half lengthwise, or that it's growing at two separate rates.  There's part of the claw, and then there's side portion that's loosely attached to the rest of the claw, like...

I hope this is the right forum for this.  In a nutshell: I got a new kitten so that my current cat would have a buddy, but instead of making my household happier, it's just made me depressed. I had an easy time with my Mal when she was a kitten.  She was one of those kittens where the night I...