Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: Our cat, Guy, is nearly a year old now. We found him when he was a kitten, 2-3 weeks old, in the lagoon area in southeast Nigeria. I had to feed him with a dropper and massage his belly; he was to young to do number one on his [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: My cat Zekey was diagnosed with sky-high creatinine phosphate levels. He constantly shakes and trembles. I’ve had him 10 years; he has never been sick, always been indoors, and everything else on his blood work and urine samples were perfect. We got a corticosteroid Saturday and his back legs [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I have a cat who spends most of the day by himself. I was worried that he might want some feline companionship, but I cannot get another pet. Sometimes when I’m surfing the web at night, I’ll loudly play one of the many YouTube videos of cats meowing to [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: My cat is terrified of everyone but myself and my boyfriend, with whom she lives. If anyone else comes into our apartment, she runs and hides. She growls at delivery men and the neighbors. I am not afraid of her being violent, but I just don’t want her to [...]
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We cats are already quite well aware of hairballs and how nasty they are, but apparently there are people who haven’t gotten the message yet. Think about it: Do you honestly believe that we run to a soft (and expensive) place when we’re about to yak up a hairball just to annoy you? No! We [...]
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