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Hi, Lilynmitz we coincided but I'll let my post stand - Hi and welcome. I'm very sorry to hear of your boy's injury. It does indeed sound neurological and irreversible. It must be so bewildering for him when he's been a normal active young cat. Years ago I knew of a case like this, a kitten similarl...

Crumbs! Couldn't she use her loaf?

Hi Scott, no matter who provides the temporary accommodation, the cats must stay in for several weeks, otherwise they could stray and become disorientated; it takes quite some time for them to learn new territory. So I think you would be fine boarding them during your friends' move - all the best

Hi Vivian, happy new year to you too, and to everyone else. VERY sorry to hear of the drought! Goddess protect x

Very glad to hear - long may it last, Pippin

Ohh dear, sounds like a fridge magnet of mine that says: 'There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast'.

I hope they don't have a catflap or in the morning they'll be chucking bricks at your bedroom window!

Awww!

A merry christmas tortie indeed! Excellently amewsing!

Happy Boxing Day everyone from Lil, Molly and Shahi-Python - better late than never

Oh the saucy boy! :o :lol: I've had several males (and females) - all neutered, who've humped other cats, my hair and clothes, and I've come to the conclusion that it's a dominance thing, although they've sometimes been aroused by females in heat; one of my neutered Siamese girls spent some time ast...

Confession: I just carpeted the windowsill so the kittens didn't get cold paws whilst looking at birds. Anyone else this daft? What a good idea! The scientist Isaac Newton cut a hole in his study door so that his cat could come and go. There was a kitten too, so he cut a smaller hole for Kitten ......

Thanks Ruth - sorry I didn't reply sooner but early on Saturday morning a pipe exploded in the bathroom and what they call a 'torrential downpour' shot through the livingroom ceiling and the electricity went off. Only got it back on yesterday afternoon. I was SO glad Mousey wasn't there - she lived ...

Thanks for the kind words, guys x

She left me on the 28th October; she had been getting very very doddery for a while though clearly not in pain, and her world slowly contracted to favourite chair and heated mat - with visits to the nearby feeding bowl. She was a gannet up till the end - little else seemed to register with her but i...

Hi, sorry I've not been around for a while and I've never noticed a bald nose, but at least two cats of mine, over the years, developed bald ears. With the first I panicked, but the vet assured me that it wasn't ringworm, with the second I just accepted it ... in this case the ears became slightly s...

Very very sorry to read of this. It's the end of an era, isn't it? It doesn't matter how old they are or how obvious it is that they are ready to go - it's a dreadful thing to face, and experience afterwards.

Sleep tight, little Willow, lots of love and hugs, Sue - Lil xxx

Oh boy, Dale, I know the feeling, congrats, even after a lifetime of cats with various stomach problems (urrghh bleaghhh) always great when you find a firm one! Bet the cat feels better too

... And then he came back from the Wet Wild Woods And said budge over and make room in your nice warm bed And by the way the food bowl is empty And the radiators have gone off And all the toys are stuck under the sofa And when I have dried off and had a snooze I will once more be the cat who walks ...

Ah. See what you mean. A few years ago I had to have them fostered; the two elders settled happily; Molly did not, though the home was brilliant, but they all settled back with me - until one of them had to visit the vet. Dismayed faces until she was restored. They'd thought they were going to be fo...

Hi there Dave, sorry I've not been about much owing to personal chaos but the cats are fine. Good to hear about your guys. Any photos? I'm curious about Morgana's coat pattern - did those tabby markings persist?

Fusses to her, and Hendrix and beautiful Mia too

Hi there and yes to both. No matter how you catproof the house, of course, you will always get woken up for about the next ... errrm let's seee ... ten years ... - 'heaven preserve us from ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggity beasties going bump in the night!' And seafood flavoured catfood is only...

Oh poor chap. I'd just give him time and let him do his own thing. And talk to him, telling him what a good boy he is. But time and calmness is the remedy - good luck and all the best

Good luck! (Sorry haven't been around much due to ongoing chaos but cats are fine though Mousey's doddery but an eating machine lol.) 'Abandoned to a dreadful place'? My equally ex-feral, timid and intelligent Mouse returned so pampered and poised from her RI treatment that any more poise and she'd ...

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Can I have some?

Ouch! :o Call me a smartass, but didn't it occur to the RSPCA or the fosterer that a neutered 5 month old female kitten would have an op scar and a shaved patch? It took a couple of months, as I remember, for my shorthairs' fur to grow back in. It would indeed be harder to tell with a black fluffy b...

Lol - what about Bonnie and Clyde? Right pair of gangsters by the sound! I once had a cat who was obsessed with clothes pegs. I'd come down to find them all over the floor and Roo making 'roo' noises (that's how she got her nickname) through a mouthful of her latest victim. Found a whole nest of the...

Hey I'm really sorry to hear this. It sounds very unusual, especially with the good care you've taken. Hope she's back to normal soon, all the very best.

Hi - there's no hard and fast rule. I've had healthy kittenless young cats who, like yours, have been very miserable, poor things, straight after spaying. It is normal to send them home the same day although it's not usual to spay them while they're in heat - but, as your vet said, it can be done. I...

Hi there and welcome. She might be teething; often happens around that age; the motions can be very smelly too - like burned rubber - ugh! They might also forget their housetraining temporarily; you might see the inner eyelid showing a little, and they might like a raw bone (never cooked) to mouth o...

Hi there - and I feel for you. It was such an awful accident to happen when you'd taken the greatest of care - please don't beat yourself up about it. I once got the neighbourhood feral stud into a carrier and got him neutered - on release he disappeared and I agonised ... was I pleased when he reap...

Hi, don't worry - the human cold/flu is human-specific, just as a cat's cold/flu is feline specific; your cat can't catch the bug from you. Hope you feel better soon