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My young cat seems to have eaten a rubberband at some point. The only reason I know is because I’ve spotted a bit hanging from her bum. She doesn’t seem able to pass it for reasons unknown. She’s eating and playing and pooping normally (I’ve been watching her poop for a couple of days now), but...

I adopted a 12-year-old Siamese, Chris, a while back who weighed 17 lbs. Since I've had him, I've switched his diet entirely to wet food from the dry food his previous family gave him, and he's come down to 15.5 lbs. My vet says he should be at 10 to 11 lbs, and so I've now been reducing Chris's...

Odd problem here. I live in an apartment community, and one of my neighbors (whom I don't know and have never met) has a gorgeous gray and white cat with incredibly matted fur from the center of her torso down to her tail. It is horribly matted and she is a very fat cat. She's the sweetest...

Hello, all! My eleven-year-old Siamese has some odd scabs on his body, one at the base of his tail and one on his left side. He licks the base of his tail a lot, and often nibbles at the area. I assumed it was possibly some sort of compulsion, a result of being lonely during the day, perhaps. He...

Hello, fellows! My 10.5 year old male (neutered) Siamese cat has been chewing the base of his tail recently. This started a couple of months ago. I believed it was a scratch he'd gotten that he was worrying at, because it was scabbed over, and eventually it vanished. However, today, I came home...

Any Bostonian cat-lovers around? I have an urgent trip in December that can't be postponed or put-off, but it's so long (18 days) that I am unwilling to board my cat at his vet. But I can't find any boarding facility that seems to care for cats properly. I have checked out Boston Red Dog Spa...

Hi all! Over this past weekend my 10-year old Siamese stayed at his vet's boarding facility while I went on a short business trip. When he returned he was, as expected, excited to be home. He graced my sister and me with his usual yowling and chatting (which I actually asked about here when I...

I recently bit the bullet and adopted a cat! While I’ve had cats my entire life, I never had the resources to offer a kitty a good home in my adult life – until now. I ended up choosing a lovely, male, seal point Siamese who had been at the shelter for over two months! He’s ten years old, a bit...

I am fostering a four week old kitten, and he's developed worms. He had fleas when he came to me, and I suspect it's tapeworms as I saw moving pieces in his diarrhea. He has been losing weight for two days (at 14.5 oz from 1 lb), and he hasn't been eating well. He does drink a lot of water. I...

One of my three four month old kittens has taken a bad turn quite suddenly. For the past two days he has been eating less, throwing up white foam and/or yellow-ish bile (multiple times, only ever between 2 AM and 8 AM), had odd gray diarrhea (very wet, but with solid stool, if that makes sense...

I'm a volunteer foster parent for a rescue organization. A couple of weeks ago I began fostering three kittens who were found in a field. They were healthy, five weeks old, and suspected feral. They were very easy to socialize; in fact, they only needed the one day to get used to my house that...