Hi!
I haven't posted in awhile, but I have a 3 year old medium haired cat named Sebastian and he has been having more of a problem with hairballs over this past year.
Right now, the problem is that he threw one up with his dinner and then tried to throw up twice more, and both times I could...
When he bites you, you absolutely have to disengage. Pushing him away (or running away so he chases you, or any other kind of physical retaliation or further attention) is giving him exactly what he wants. He wants to play fight and wrestle with you, like you were another kitten. More than...
Yes, as lokhismom suggests, try a food without any gums. I don't think it is very common at all for cats to be sensitive to gums, but my cat sure is. It might be worth trying.
I didn't have too much vomiting with him, but he had chronic diarrhea and loose stools for the first 7 months I had him...
I have a big, oafish 18lb orange tabby that won't let me clip his claws either. Unfortunately, he seems to believe he is a light, graceful, dainty kitty who can perch on my shoulder like a parrot. So yes, I have suffered huge bleeding scratches on my chest and back when he jumps up on me and...
Yay! I love gingers! My orange boy, Sebastian, is my first orange cat and he's a big goofy klutz! For some reason he prefers plastic boxes to sleep in as you can see by these pics I took of him as he grew up! The latest box I had to buy specifically for him because he outgrew all the ones I had! :D
I have a 17lb male who is almost 2 and he eats 1 and 2/3 cans if NVI a day which adds up to about 360 calories, close to the reccomended 20 calories per pound for healthy weight cats. Big cats unfortunately just need more food! :D I'm just happy he is out of his growing like crazy older kitten...
I went through about 7 months of chronic soft stools and diarrhea with my kitten (now big monster cat!) before I found Nature's Variety Instinct canned food which cured the poop problems within a few days. The lack of gums and the presence of montmorillonite clay were the only things unique to...
I use pine pellet litter, the Petco brand. It's basically the same stuff as Feline Pine but the pellets are a little smaller. My cat didn't seem to have any issues with clay litter, but I switched to pine for my sake, cause I couldn't stand the dust and smell of clay litter.
I live in a small...
My cat sits in the classic cat sitting position like so:
and then twists his head down and around to his lower back, splaying his front paws out a little in the process. Sorry I don't have a pic of that! :D
I think I only noticed cause he is always near me grooming, lol. Thank goodness for...
Cheezits. My cat generally won't eat anything but his cat food. I can seriously leave a plate of hot chicken or steak and he will walk right up to it, sniff it, try to bury it and walk away, lol. But one day I was eating cheezits and he was trying to stick his head in the bag so I broke one in...
I just want to be clear that I would never want any details of this child to be revealed, and none have been. I was only saying it for the OP to consider, just in case, which is why I said she is the one who knows them and I can be totally wrong. It was just unclear to me if the girl was being...
Only you know your friend and the exact circumstances of everything, but what you wrote sounds disturbingly like a child acting out abuse that they have witnessed or experienced. It doesn't seem like a kid getting mad cause they got bit and hit the cat in retaliation. It was such a long series...