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Good morning everyone! I'm getting pretty concerned because my cat, Starbuck, has not eaten since at least around midday yesterday. I'm about 80% sure that she ate the night before (the 10th), I'm not sure whether she ate yesterday morning. She is a regular ole tabby cat, about 4 years old, very...

So my cat is very overweight, and very inactive at this point. I have been trying to implement several of the standard strategies with little success: 1) active play; 2) active/hunting food dispenser (one of those plastic balls); 3) a vet-recommended restricted calorie intake. She was always...

Hey all! So I've been feeding my cat, Starbuck, Hill's science diet indoor adult dry cat food for at least a year or so now. Before that I was doing purina kitten and purina adult that I just grabbed at CVS. I thought that science diet was one of the good ones, but happened to catch a couple of...

Hi everyone! Now that I'm working for the summer, I'm away from my apt. much more often during meal time. May continue to be a problem during the school year next year as we, so I'm looking into auto feeders for my cat so she doesn't have to wait for me to get home. If it's possible for me to...

Hey everyone, I'm moving into a new apartment next week, 7th floor. There's a balcony in my room which is the only window in the room, no screen door. I'm wondering if anyone has tips re: cats and balconies. I can't remember how far apart the bars on the balcony are, I'll grab a photo as soon...

Afternoon everyone! Another question for you all. The other day there was a bat flying around my house, but by the time I grabbed the supplies to shoo it out, it had flown back to its hiding place. I searched the whole house and not a sign of it. A little while ago, I found it dead on the...

Hey everyone, Question about my cat, Starbuck. She's picked up a habit of chewing on plastic. As far as I can tell, she doesn't swallow any of it, but it still makes me nervous. I've googled it and gotten results from "it's nothing" to "cat pica," so I want to nip this in the bud. Obviously I'm...

Hey, it's me again (and now that song is stuck in my head until the end of time). Got Starbuck fixed yesterday, everything went smoothly. My only problem is, I can't for the life of me get her pain meds down her throat. I watched the videos, I got her mouth open, I put the pill in, she spits it...

Hey everyone, Question for you all.  I've had my kitten (Starbuck) since October, she's now about 8 months old, at the beginning of February my housemate and I moved into my housemate's sister's house. I live in the basement, there's a door at the top of the stairs which leads into the kitchen...

Hi everyone, I have a 7 month old kitten, I've had her since the end of October.  Right after I got her, she got a bad cold and stopped eating/drinking, got super lethargic.  I took her to the vet, they gave me antibiotics and some syringes for getting her food and water. She recovered and has...

Hi there, I'm having two issues with my kitten.  First, she has just recently begun shredding toilet paper.  Before I got her, my roommate had his kitten, who started to do the same thing.  My roommate hadn't gotten a scratch post yet, and had had the kitten for 5-ish months, so I went out and...

So, I adopted my kitten (Starbuck) at the end of October.  Shortly afterword, I took her to the vet because she was dehydrated and lethargic.  It turned out she had coccidia.  The vet gave me a 10-day round of oral medication.  After a few days, she started drinking and eating and acting normal...

Hi there, I am new to the forum, and to cat ownership.  I adopted my kitten, Starbuck (after the BSG character, not the coffee), about a month ago.  She started out with coccidia, but the vet gave me some meds and she seems to be over that.  However, she doesn't seem super good at grooming...