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Personally I wonder if giving your cat some vanilla yogurt in his food would help (vanilla because animals usually refuse plain yogurt but will accept vanilla).  Yogurt helps populate the bowel with desirable bacteria and also supplies digestive enzymes.  You might ask your vet's opinion on...

Spaying or neutering has no effect on allergies.  As a previous poster explained, it's a substance in the cat's saliva that causes the allergy reactions.  However there are a number of things your doctor can do to get your allergies under control and  keep them under control so you can live...

You don't describe what your kitten actually does so it's hard to tell whether your kitten is truly acting aggressive, in which case fear is the motivation, or whether your kitten is simply pestering the older cat and playing too rough and the adult cat hasn't yet reached his limit of tolerance...

Young kittens, like young children, sometimes wait until the very last minute to go relieve themselves and then they don't quite make it in time because they didn't allow themselves enough time to get to the litter pan.  A kitten can also get confused and not quite remember how to get to the...

If you hear his back claws when  he runs, then you simply need to clip his claws, they're too long.  I find that back claws do need to be clipped on indoor cats although usually not as frequently as the front claws need clipped. Most adult cats take a few weeks minimum to adjust to a new place...

I have had a number of cats who perch on the side of a litter pan with only their tail end inside the pan when they relieve themselves.  My guess is that these cats don't want to get their feet dirty.  With these cats you have to use an open litter pan, make sure to use a big enough pan and put...

The fact you say that for a year the two got along before the problems started. says that SOMETHING happened about six months ago that caused the sudden change in Blackie's behavior.  The fact that Blackie's behavior problems are intermittent also points to the fact that SOMETHING is causing...

Just make sure the flowers your cat are playing with are safe for her and not toxic. This link for the ASPCA pet poison control center's lists of toxic and safe plants is a good place to go to check and make sure your kitty is only playing with safe flowers...

If it's in the area of her belly button, she may just have a small umbilical  hernia you never noticed before.  But since she is older, I concur with the previous poster that it would be wisest to have her vet checked just in case it is something serious because the sooner serious problems are...

Over the years I've had a few cats who would do this.  When I put clean litter in the litter pan, they would get excited and go jump in it and flip and roll around in it.  Since they do it only for a short time and only when the litter pan has fresh clean litter in it, I never considered it a...

Your cat is afraid of your son, not jealous.  Young children with their erratic jerky uncoordinated movements, high pitched voices, tendencies to move suddenly and unexpectedly, throw things, scream, yell etc can be very scary to a cat. Your cat feels threatened inside and threatened outside. ...

You don't state the age of your cat or give enough details to really evaluate the situation. Was your cat just attacking you out of play?  I have a young cat who loves to hide under my bed and grab at my ankles as I walk by.  It's all in play.  When he's gotten too rough, I've hissed at him and...

A vet check would definitely be a good idea. But also remember your kitty has been through a LOT in a very short time and is very stressed out. She probably also is sore from the matted fur, mats make a cat sore because they pull and even may even tear the skin. She actually is adjusting...

Winston's problem is fear.  When a cat goes to the litter pan it is at one of its most vulnerable times & an attack, ambush, or bullying from another cat at this time can easily scare a cat away from using the litter pan.  A fearful cat's fear behaviors tend to invite a bully to do more...

Its the mother who usually does teach the kittens how to use the litterpan at about the age your kittens are at now.  When kittens first start eating solid food, their feces start changing & the mother cat starts teaching them to go to the litter pan. Since this mother cat goes outdoors, she...

Mother cats will do the same thing as Alafair is doing, hiss and smack at their own kittens to discipline their kittens when the kittens behavior gets out of hand. Like most cat altercations, this can look much more dramatic to human onlookers than it actually is. Most of this disciplining...

Too bad you don't live near me.  I'm one who will take on such a cat. I hate to see people give away old cats.  After so many years, the cat has the right to live out the rest of its lifetime in its familiar home.  Most aggression in cats is actually fear motivated.  The cat is scared so it...

I personally think ear tipping is a good idea. Ear tipping doesn't affect the cat at all. It's a universal sign of a cat that's already been spayed or neutered. Unless your cat is a purebred being shown in altered championship classes, ear tipping shouldn't be any problem at all.  On some of my...

I've had cats all my life, used to breed & show Siames, American Shorthairs & to a lesser extent a few other breeds, used to show HHPs-I especially liked to rescue a cat or adopt one from a shelter especially an older cat and then send copies of its wins to the shelter to hopefully encourage...