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Hi, I have and issue I was hoping someone might have some insight into. My cat has been experiencing some hard stools for the last few months. It started around the end of the summer (so far as I know), when he pooped outside the litter box a few times. I finally figured out he wasn't adverse to...

So here's the story: after repeated and varied issues with food allergies (including with grain free and limited ingredient foods), about two weeks ago I started my 11yo cat on a hydrolyzed, easily digestible dry food, at my vet's recommendation. I mixed with his old kibble for the first 4-5...

My 11yo kitty had a mast cell tumor removed from his shoulder about a month ago. At about 10 days, he had the surface sutures removed, and the vet indicated there was at least one (maybe two, can't remember) layers of internal dissolvable sutures as well. The wound appears to be healing fine...

Yesterday, Nico went to the litterbox and defecated. Not too long later he went back and had some diarrhea. It stunk something fierce. I checked his box today after work- he had passed solid stools and urinated, but then not too long ago he made two trips to the box and had diarrhea. Not much...

This is from my area- I don't know how many other areas were affected but I wanted to share it ASAP! Spread the word! http://www.democratandchronicle.com/...WS01/512220330

Are apples ok for cats? I am guessing so, but I wanted to make sure. Nico loves climbing into my lap every morning while I eat breakfast and licking my apple every morning. Maybe an apple a day will keep the vet away!

Gradually for a while now, Nico has seemed more and more indifferent to his wet cat food, of which he gets a 1/4 can a day. He also gets half a cup or so of dry food (this is all Nutro products, so this doesn't sound like much but it is what is recommended). I want him eating wet food for the...

In just a week or so, I have seen 2 neighborhood kitties taken by the road. The first was a black and white kitty lying just off the road in the grass last week, only half a dozen houses from mine. This morning, I saw the second no more than 50ft from where the first passed. An orange kitty...

I saw saw the thread on killing cockroaches- good ideas. Fortunately, I've got no large bug problems, but do get wicked amounts of ants! They're actually attracted to the cat food! Anyone have any good, non-toxic ways of dealing with ants? I read about and tried like black pepper, cinnamon...

My cat is a mutt, adopted from a shelter at a baby. I specifically spent half a summer looking for a grey kitten because I am very enamoured of russian blue and chartreaux cats. While I by no means want to refer to my cat as pedigreed in any way, or even as a mix, I did some casual research on...

I have luckily never posted here before yesterday, and here I am again. Fortunately, not for one of my pets again, but rather for an unlucky kitty in NC, whom my friend helped cross the RB. From her blog: [Friend's bf] and I helped a cat pass on to the next world without having to be smushed...

I posted a recent thread about a bat I found in my apt the other day. Because it was found in an unsual spot(my 1st floor apt where no windows were open) acting injured, found in daylight and had been alone with my cat for at least 12 hours before I found it, I sent it to be rabies tested...

I came home yesterday morning after spending the night at my BFs and found a bat in my living room behind a bit of furniture. Nico brought my attention to it, he was pawing at it a bit and it was making angry squeaks. I trapped it and just dropped it off to be rabies tested this morning but I am...

Just wanted to run this by people and see what they thought: (long post sorry) My Nico (about a fourteen months old now, neutered) is a very cuddly kitty most of the time- in the mornings he wants to pet and roll all over the bed with me and most of the time he likes a rub or to sit on my lap...

Last summer I got a kitten around mid-july. During a hot spell, I felt bad leaving him cooped up in my hot(but not dangerously hot) apartment all day. One evening I noticed him napping on the vinyl floor of my very small kitchen. I thought- that's good, its cooler there than on the rug (the rest...

Does anyone know any free or VERY inexpensive vet resources in New Orleans? A couple of my friends live in New Orleans and have a pair of cats. She recently mentioned they have fleas, which of course set my alarms off, as I am sure they have other things as well and probably have not been...

In your opinion, which brand of pet fountain would you recommend buying?

I have something of an anatomy question. My kitty (11mos now) has a little bump at the tip of his tail. It's at the very end, on the side. I was just wondering if this was a natural shape of the vertebrae? I have looked at it an its nothing on top of the skin, its under. Nor does it bother my...

Ok- so my kitty has an occasionally runny nose. I might notice a little wetness once or twice a week. Its usually just a little bit of clear fluid coming down one nostril usually (one at a time, but comes from both), but not usually enough to even some out of the nostril. This morning as he...

Ok- so my 8mo kit Nico recently figured out he is now big enough to jump up to our kitchen counters. He is allowed on EVERYTHING else in the apt but this, as I don't want him licking dirty dishes or sink water (which I try to keep to a minimum, but I am a busy girl), or walking on the stove. But...