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Hi all! I adopted my 8-year-old cat, Skimble, about 9 months ago in September. He's the first pet I've owned living on my own. I've had cats before, but I'm still sort of a newb. He showed signs of stress from the beginning, particularly by pulling out his fur very often. I feel like he's just...

I brought him into the vet a little over a month ago and she was the one to suggest stress. I haven't talked about this issue with her again since then though. His blood work suggested extremely early stages of CKD so working out a treatment for that kind of took center stage over the behavior...

Hi, I adopted my 8-year-old cat, Skimble, a few months back in September. He had some behavior changes right off the bat. The first week I had him he was extremely affectionate and loved to be pet and held. He purred all the time. He loved meeting new people and was super affectionate with...

Thank you guys so much for your input. He ended up really liking the Hill's chicken, so that's probably what I'll go with for now, but the Dave's sounds very intriguing! I'll definitely look into it

Hello! My newly adopted 8-year-old cat was recently prescribed renal food after finding very slightly elevated kidney levels at the vet. She gave me 4 options to choose from:  Royal Canin Renal LP, Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets NP Kidney Function, and 2 varieties of Hills Prescription Diet...

Hi all, I adopted Skimble (8 years old) a little over 3 weeks ago from the local humane society. Over those 3 weeks I've seen a lot of behavior changes, so I'll give you a description of the timeline: I picked him at the shelter because he was really affectionate right away. As soon as the...

Thank you for all your great replies! (And sorry for my delayed response.) I ended up switching him over to the high quality food I bought, and he seems to like the dry Orijen quite a bit, but not the wet stuff. I'm still on the hunt for a wet food that he likes and maybe a slightly cheaper dry...

I should also add that when I do finally convince him to eat the wet food, he never finishes the quarter can. 

Thanks for all your kind words, everyone!  A problem has arisen. He doesn't seem to like the canned food. He ate it the first morning (yesterday) I gave it to him after a little coaxing, but he refused last night and this morning. He ate it this morning after a put a little dry food down. He...

Hello! This community has been so helpful in answering the many questions I'm having as a first time cat owner, so I thought I'd bring you guys another. I adopted my 8-year-old cat, Skimble, from the local humane society two weeks ago. I picked him because he was affectionate right off the bat...

Here he is in all his adorable glory. We're still waiting on the food, but I have high hopes! I also found out that I get a better deal with Amazon, so that's the route I'll take from now on. 

Thanks to all of you guys again! I bought the Instinct line from Chewy.com. I saw their auto-ship option, but I thought I'd wait to see if my cat liked it before I chose that option just in case I were to forget to cancel it (which is rather likely). I'm a Prime member though, so I'll have to...

 I think it's really important to adopt older animals. The shelter close to the home I grew up in has a large room that they keep all their adult cats in. There's hundreds of them. When I was living there and our last cat passed away after we found out my brother was allergic, I spent a lot of...

Thank you both! I did some research and placed an order for Nature's Variety canned food. It's pricey, but I'm able to fit it in my budget, and I want to give Skimble the best I can. I think I'll transition him over to a 100% wet food diet after I get the food in the mail and make sure he likes...

Hi all, I adopted an 8-year-old kitty from the local humane society last week and am looking for advice about how to feed him. The shelter had him on Purina Pro Plan Chicken and Rice dry food, and my new vet said that was okay at a half cup a day, but I'm very concerned about the negative...

Hi there. I was hoping I could get some insight on bonding. I adopted an 8-year-old ginger cat, Skimble, from the local humane society yesterday and he's been home around 24 hours. I kept him in my room for the first evening and night as I read you were supposed to do to help him acclimate. He...

Great advice! I was already looking for an adult female, hopefully in the 6-12 range since I think adopting older cats is really important. There are a couple kitties listed on my local humane society's website listed under a category that I think would fit really well. They have a rating system...

My roommates are very much okay with it. They're almost as excited as I am. I definitely appreciate that part of living with roommates too.