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Poor sweet girl. I can relate exactly to her problem!! Did your vet say there is nothing to be done? Are her bloods (esp thyroid levels) all normal? Human adults with dementia can be helped (not cured of course) with certain meds and diets, perhaps the veterinary researchers have come up with theor...

Hi Tara, if your kitty is 10 weeks old now and you have had him for a "few weeks", it is likely he was too young to be taken away from his mother and perhaps she did not have time to teach him the ropes in regards to using litter. If you are not scooping the waste out of his tray often en...

Does she normally not sleep with someone in the house, or did she snuggle with her sister? Perhaps letting her into a bed at night to snuggle might help her. Or a new bed which she doesn't associate with Strippy. Apart from another cat - a laid back older cat rather than a kitten I think - I can't ...

There are a number of reasons that you cat may have started this behaviour, but in an older cat the first thing I would do would be to get her to the vet for a thorough check, including bloods, especially to check her thyroid function. Thyroid issues are one of the major reasons that older cats sta...

I have 9 cats and always sleep with anywhere between 1 and 6 of them - and would love it if they all joined me!! I agree that getting him into a routine will probably work, but I wouldn't mind betting that the little darling will eventually find himself miraculously sleeping with your son. :D Of co...

Do you know why he prefers the neighbour's house? The food, other pets, more or less interaction with the person/people? Or is it something that only the cat himself would know? If the reason is something you could easily duplicate, like the food for example, perhaps you could try to "bribe&qu...

You ought to try living in Australia!! http://optimail.com.au/berrime/wildcats.htm#ref" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I read this article recently, which is fairly well-balanced with for and against cat arguments, but I find the most significant argument is at the beginnin...

Kids!! Oh well, let's hope Sophie lives to a grand old age and that there are pictures of him at your daughter's 21st birthday party and jokes about her stubbornness (your daughter's, not Sophie's). Take some pictures of Sophie wearing something really gay, with a sign that says "My name is So...

Let's hope so!!! Why not re-name him? - pick something simple, beginning with an "S" would probably make things easier, but it doesn't really matter, and use his new name HEAPS over a week or so and you'll find he'll respond. I re-named my darling Ruby at the age of about 18 months becaus...

Dear Ruth, I sincerely apologise for upsetting you so much (and I really do mean that - it was not my intention). In my defense, if there is one, I didn't get the impression that he was getting to spend so much of the day with you from what I was reading, just that you can't really have him in the ...

I am not a breeder, and I don't know Siberian cats, but I do know kittens and this strikes me as being VERY strange advice. Tiger is just a baby and is just behaving like most kittens on their own would - he's just been separated from his mum, brothers and sisters, and now it seems no-one wants him...

Hope your claim goes through without a problem Sarie - I never imagined in a million years that there was any reason for them not to pay mine though, so you don't know until you've actually got the money back. My cats do have a bank account Crewella which I pay into regularly - there's money in ther...

What a magnificent cat, and congratulations on the tree, well done! He obviously loves you both and he's so very young - get his op over and done with asap and reassess his behaviour after a couple of months, then have a huge rethink about your options before jumping straight to rehoming him. I don'...

Has the vet done a skin scraping or used sticky tape to get a sample from the lesions to put under the microscope? I've read the whole thread, but very quickly, and may have missed that this has been done - but if he or she hasn't I would do that before going off to a specialist. It certainly sound...

If it were me in the same situation, which obviously isn't yours, I would let him into my work area - perhaps keep the bedroom cat-free - but I certainly wouldn't keep him from me if I were in the house during the day. I would get a second cat or kitten. I would also make sure that he has lots of t...

I can't afford to insure all my cats, but I included Summer in the cats I decided to insure because she spends most of her time outdoors. I recently lodged her first claim, and spent quite a bit of time getting her history together so that from now on her file is up to date. About 6 weeks ago, much...

Are you sure Baxter still wasn't stoned from the anaesthetic? Just kidding, I know love when I hear about it!!!

That is one lucky little black cat! What a sweetie!

Last year I lost two cats within 2 weeks of each other, and ended up adopting three "replacements" and six months later bought my Sphynx boy Jagger - I like to think that Ruby and Lily2 would approve - the new cats don't subtract one iota from my love for them and I still miss them dreadf...

Keep an eye on the grooming - if the over grooming persists and the fur starts to thin or she gets bald spots it could be "psychogenic alopecia" - this is a condition where grooming to calm herself becomes an "obsession" with resulting major fur loss (this is the short version)....