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Hi and welcome to Catchat. I 'cat-proofed' my garden in 2012 (www.photobucket.com/catgarden) and let them out beyond it when I can watch over them. The netting was £12 for 65 feet from ebay and the brackets £1 each from Screwfix. Maybe consider something similar and keep an eye on them if and when t...

All of mine do it, usually when they want to go out. I always assumed they were trying to punish me for keeping them in. They also do it when there's another cat about. They always seem to do it on soft furnishings - settees, curtains etc. They are all female too. My sisters cats do it too - she eve...

Oh no, Kris, you must be devastated.

Jumping down the fence last night.

She's almost her normal self now, although bit wary of me after 4 vet visits. She is climbing up and jumping down 7 foot high wooden fences onto concrete. I doubt she'd do that if she was in pain. It's taken a while but she seems to be improving each day (touch wood).

Hi Alan

I hope yours gets better soon. Maybe she needs hydration (a drip feed) at the vets? That can make a lot of difference.

Mine is 5. She's running and climbing now, although not herself yet.

Hi Arralszemben - he's gorgeous (as are all kittens)!

It's unusual to have a kitten at 7 weeks, it's usually 8-10 weeks, but I had mine from day 1, as they were born in my garden, so I can't talk!

Hi Kris, my cat seems to be getting better slowly (touch wood). She ran briefly for the first time today, is eating normally and is climbing, but isn't running around, rolling, playing etc. You can still catch her if you want her to come in, whereas normally you'd have no chance. Last sunday she was...

One of my cats was diagnosed with pancreatitis on friday (http://www.catchat.org/felineforum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5064), but she's only 5 and has no other health issues - no blood or vomitting. She has started to take 2 tabs of Synuclav a day. She hasn't needed to go on a drip because she is eat...

Thanks both. They didn't think she needed a drip as she has been eating and drinking, but It'll be a job to give her all that medication.

The vet didn't think she was constipated as she felt around her stomach area. Maybe she has been going somewhere.

The humane mouse traps work well if you check them every few hours. By far the best thing is to put peanut butter on the lid. They don't seem to be interested in cheese.

I had the results of the second blood test today, which indicates she has pancreatitis. Her pancreas-specific lipase concentration reading is 5.4, which is on the borderline. I took her in again, and the vet started treatment with a painkilling injection, an anti-emetic injection for nausea, and she...

I've had cats that have caught all sorts of birds, even pigeons, but the current crop tend to bring them to me unharmed to show me, and I act impressed, while letting them go and they search for their prey but don't find them. Then I give them some food and they forget about it. The birds usually fl...

She is definitely constipated as she strains and produces very little. She managed to join the others on the (single storey) flat roof extension this morning, so must have jumped up somehow, and was out all night and day (despite my better judgement). She ate this morning and a little this evening. ...

Thanks Crewella - yes they do sometimes lie on the fridge, or more usually, the dresser next to it. She's about the same today, not purring but ate a whole bowl of dinner this morning and a little this evening. She seems to be straining when she goes to the toilet, as though constipated, and only sm...

Elevated white blood cells sounds like she's fighting something, but that's probably a good sign.

As your garden is cat-proofed, hopefully she'll be allowed to go out soon.

I don't want to speak too soon, but she's been a lot brighter today. When I got home she was standing on the kitchen worktops waiting for food, which she ate. She had been lying barely moving for 18 hours. She even went in the garden, walked around and purred for the first time in 3 days as I stroke...

She's been sleeping for 14 hours now (first on the patio then and since in the kitchen on some towels). She doesn't really seem interested in getting up or doing anything. Is it possible metacam and other drug they gave her yesterday (Cerenia) have made her drowsy? When you search for Metacam that's...

Thanks for the replies. I took her back to the vet at 5. She was lying in a flower bed at the bottom of the garden (after I had been searching for her for over half an hour), so she seemed to have found somewhere to settle without being too uncomfortable. They checked her over again, and I showed th...

Hi I got in this morning and noticed one of my cats wasn't right. She is very lethargic and is off her food. Earlier she tried to go to the toilet but nothing came out. She has spent the day wandering around the house meowing occasionally and feeling sorry for herself, trying to find somewhere comfo...

I'd keep an eye on them, but usually the mother will reject a kitten much earlier than that (before their eyes have opened) and only if she doesn't think the kitten will survive. If she's prepared to let it feed and it does this ok, you are probably ok.

The entire thread I was replying to yesterday seems to have disappeared - about cat tags

I've never had any people come knocking at Halloween. I think they think it's that weird cat man, let's not go anywhere near his house. I have visions of balls landing on the frontage but children being too scared to retrieve them, and daring one another! Anyway, away from that early 60s Disney fant...

We still haven't had a frost here in Surrey yet. The Aloe Veras are still outside, as are all the other tenders. The cats don't like the rain though, and sit on the bay window under the bay roof in the hope it will stop.

Will she wear a collar? You could try a Loc8tor plus tag on her collar to see where she goes at night.

If it was me I'd be having a stern word with him/her. How old is the miscreant? Child or adult?

Mine always have 'cat' names - Tigger, Tabby, Frisky, Kitty, Tango, Coco etc.

Thanks Mark, I don't think there's one of those anywhere near me. They don't seem to mind Gourmet Perle (3 boxes for £10 in Tesco at the moment, or 3.50 for one in Morrisons). One of the three will eat most things, the other two are a bit fussy, but will come back to it if there's nothing better on ...

Mine like the foods in sauce, they really don't like jelly. Now that Whiskas Lick N Chew has been discontinued I have had to search for an alternative. I found Whiskas poultry in sauce, another whiskas one which doesn't even have a name (1.75 for 6 small pouches) and now something they like in the p...

Definitely caused by another animal, almost certainly another cat. Agree with the others' views on this.