Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I am hoping that you can help me with a question. I’ve been unemployed and living back at home with my cat, Newt. I used to volunteer for a local pet rescue, where I fostered a couple of cats and wound up adopting my Newt boy. Do you know of any resources [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: My cat, Gracie, has worms (again). She had them for a while, then they seemed to go away for several months. Now they have come back. She is an inside cat but does go out occasionally. When she does, she occasionally eats grass. I changed her cat food about two weeks ago and [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: One of my cats likes to drink from the bathtub. One day I noticed tiny red spots on the tub and the floor. I took her to the vet, who said that she most likely has a urinary tract infection. Now I’m giving her special food and amoxicillin for [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: The hair has come off both of my cat’s ears and he is scratching them with his hind feet until they start to bleed. What’s going on? ~ Marilyn Siouxsie: It could be one of several things, Marilyn, so we’d definitely recommend you get your kitty to a vet [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: Can cats carry bed bugs, and if they can, how do you get rid of them on the cat? The place where I’m staying has bed bugs and I have three cats. ~ Jammie Siouxsie: Well, Jammie, bed bugs sure are a drag, and they’re the just about single biggest pain-in-the-tail [...]
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