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I would suggest you weigh him regularly - once a fortnight as he's so young - that will show you if he is gaining weight and as long as he is you can stop fretting over how much, or how little, he eats

just a thought, from someone who has been caring for an outdoor cat for some years now - the arrangement is I provide food and shelter in my shed, and he agrees not to hiss at me as long as I don't get too close - although unneutered he doesn't seem to stray beyond my garden do you have a garden whi...

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there was a poster on here who had considerable success with the Royal Canin Fibre Response mentioned in this article

it looks as if he got himself shut in somewhere - you must have been over the moon when he turned up

perhaps you need to explain to him that lock down doesn't apply to cats

will he eat raw meat and liver to boost B12? ground into a liquid paste perhaps?

you can find EPI supplement online - Amazon could get it to you by Sunday

I too think heat is the way forward - I had a cat who slept right up next to me every night for 14 years

until I had a multi-fuel stove put in, and put her bed next to it - she never so much as visited me in bed again

I'm with Ruth - introducing another cat is always a risky business, but in my now fairly long experience, I think a male of roughly her age, who has always lived indoors, and who was neutered at the usual 4-6 months, is most likely to be accepted by her.

Amazing how forgiving they are when there's food at stake!!

Now that his male hormones are no longer driving him, he clearly sees your garden as home, and you as his provider - not too many steps now between that and his becoming your pet

Mollycat has reminded me I sent my Trigger off for his HT treatment with a t-shirt I had been wearing for a couple of days

she's a teenager in human terms, and teenagers aren't known for going to bed early and never making their presence felt and being a cat her instinct is to hunt during the hours of darkness rather than sleep you are tuned in to her meouwing now, and it will get to you when others might not notice so ...

I have used Viovet in the past, with a vet prescription - the advantage with these online vet pharmacies is that you can deposit the prescription with them and then simply order repeat meds my vet is good about giving prescriptions, as they know I don't have a car and can't get to them easily - I su...

just move all your expectations forward a couple of weeks, and start to worry if none of them are being met by then

acclimatization to a new home and new people naturally takes time, and nothing you can do to hurry the process, so be patient and take pleasure in each step forward she takes

I'd go down this route too - I have a cat flap in the shed for my outdoor cat, and have put two Mr Snugs inside in case one gets occupied by another cat - I like the idea of being able to offer a refuge for a needy cat in winter it also helps to have two kennels because however dry you try to keep i...

I've had to revise a lot of my previous beliefs about what makes cats happy since I had Penny I was told she had spent her first 11 years with an elderly couple, and had regular access to outdoors, but she has shown virtually no interest in going out into my enclosed garden since she came to me 21 m...

what a lucky girl to have such a good neighbour it seems to me you will have no problems as long as the incoming neighbours are willing to co-operate - is there going to be a gap between the current ones moving out and the new ones moving in? how long will they keep the cat flap closed? a couple of ...

I'm older than you, and my current cat came to me aged 11 - if I outlive her I will look for another perhaps even older cat, as I know I can offer an ideal home for an oldie wanting a quiet life - in particular I shall look for a cat who has been in rescue for far too long because most people want a...

I suspect it comes down to breeding too - I wonder how many of the dogs registered are pure bred - most probably unregistered mongrels might well be closer to the unregistered moggie number - and as spaying and neutering must be a major reason for registering cats, the fact that rescues do this is a...

I don't know if you have a cat flap, but for the benefit of anyone who does reading this thread, years ago I had a cat who had recurring bouts of ringworm, until I twigged that I needed to give the cat flap a thorough cleaning

great news - does he look thinner? if not it means he has been finding food somewhere else, which would be one less worry for you

I'm no expert on ear mites, or indeed any other cat's ear problems, but I did once have a rescue cat with bad mites, and the muck looked to be much deeper in the ear canal than in your pictures, and he scratched his ears constantly if your boy doesn't seem bothered, and there is no evidence of any i...

top cost in my neck of the woods (West Wales) is around £60, so £240 sounds just wrong

so unless she has a health condition which complicates what is usually a routine op, I would certainly query it

would she not have been doing a lot of these things when you aren't there to see? I would suspect the only difference is that you are there to see her

have a google at 'wall platforms for cats' and look at the images for ideas on making your home safer and more exciting for her

I don't know if you've been to the vet yet, but if not place her near steam if you can, in an enclosed space if possible

you absolutely did the right thing, and I would be very surprised if he doesn't turn up again in the next few days - most feral cats have several bolt holes, and although you were clearly his favourite, he is probably licking his wounds, and his pride, in one of them if it is your intention to event...

I think age is less important than background - if you can find a cat who has lived happily with another cat without being territorial, or being bullied, that would be a good sign the advantage of bringing in a kitten is that in my experience they ignore any hostile behaviour by the resident cat - t...

perhaps you could take a few photos for your vet to look at?

I was writing this as you were posting, booktigger - great minds really do think alike!! as blockages have been ruled out, I wonder if his bladder problems are stress-related it might be worth trying him on one of the bladder support supplements, which can be bought online - Cystaid is probably the ...

you might be able to enlist the help of the people whose gardens she goes into - asking them to scare her in the direction of home is probably something they'd be glad to do I have used neighbours to scare a cat from going in the direction of a busy road, and she soon learned to avoid that route at ...

I know - we all know on here - how much it hurts to lose a beloved cat - and it rarely happens without the torment of all sorts of what ifs, and self blame, and anger that it happened at all what time does is gradually shift the mind away from the end, replaying over and over in a loop, and bring to...