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Welcome to the forum and i'm sorry it isn't in better circumstances, everyone here will try and offer help and advise, but I'm afraid there are no easy answers in a situation like yours. Firstly I will give what I think is a bit of an explanation for her behaviour, while not an answer it might help ...

One of my cats refused to use the cat flap properly for over a year after I got her. Like you lad she would use it if it was part open but not if it was fully shut, she almost didn't seem to realise that she could push it to start it opening. I won't however recommend what ended up working for her. ...

Grief and loss affects us all differently, some are happiest clearing everything out as quickly as possible, others almost make a shrine to the lost one, and no one is wrong with how they react. I freely admit to being a total tech muggle so I don't know if what I am about to suggest is even possibl...

I've just seen a post on the Cats Protection Facebook page (Wolverhampton branch shared from the Stoke and Newcastle branch) about possible problems with this flea spot on treatment. Nothing concrete just saying that they have been made aware of other Facebook posts saying that this has caused cats ...

I've seen both the videos before and variations on the second one for many years. I wasn't sure about the cat wrapping (or the whippet wrapping variant I have seen), but the cat could easily get up and walk away anytime it wanted if it really objected. Like you say it seems a very laid back cat. As ...

Merry Christmas to you all, hope you have a great day and the cats don't run off with the turkey.

I would still suggest that you investigate options for cat proofing the garden, there are quite a few out there. Like you say a 2m fence is nothing to an agile cat but there are adaptions such as rollers that can be fitted along the top that mean the cats can't get purchase at the tip of the fence. ...

I am so sorry to hear what has happened and it is never easy to lose a pet, even worse when you have to tell a partner what has happened. I do feel that you need to tell her as soon as possible, and perhaps make out that it has only just happened. Put his death off by a day and tell her you found po...

I'm sorry to hear about your Uncle and I also want to say thank you for looking after his cats. I can only reiterate what the others have said, contact all the rescues in the area and explain the situation, hopefully one can find room before you have to leave. I would also say check any paperwork he...

Poor little girl, and poor you having it hanging over you. I can't suggest anything about allergy testing, but I can think of a couple of options that might help. You say Maisy is only 6 years old, how long have you had her, and when did the condition start. It is possible for an allergy to suddenly...

If you seriously want to give your friend a kitten (I would suggest an adult cat if she hasn't had one before), take them to the local charity and let them have a look around and discuss it with the volunteers there, and offer to pay the adoption fee for her. Between yourself and the charity she wou...

But we all know that shoelaces were only put on this earth to entertain kittens. They are definitely going to be a double handful of trouble, and no doubt will be adored for every mischief they get up to.

We had to try once, fortunately it was with my old Ragdoll who was very easy going about everything. We were given a tiny pack of non absorbent litter for him to use, a pipette and a sample tube. You put it in a clean tray, let the cat do his business in it, pipette up the liquid from the bottom of ...

There are a lot of broad spectrum antibiotics which will normally deal with any bacterial infection. The main difference is whether the bacterium is gram+ or gram-, one is far rarer than the other and there are less antibiotics available to treat it (I can't remember which is rare, but I think it is...

Sounds like they are making themselves right at home.

Freddie sounds like my Saturn when it comes to food, 'what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine'.

When I was a lot younger, 6 weeks was the normal age to rehome kittens. Now it seems to be closer to 12 weeks, so she is very young to be away from her mother, and still has a lot of learning to do, without her mother to help, you are going to have to make sure that she learns all the correct behavi...

Its always a worry when there seems to be something wrong and you can't quite work out what. Unfortunately the vet is the best person to try and diagnose what it might be. I don't know a lot about heart worms, but coughing like that could well just be a hairball that is being stubborn, or just norma...

It could be she will always be chatty, some of mine have been, others have been very good at the silent stare to get what they want, only time will tell in this instance. A couple of things do come to mind however for your new kitten. She obviously came from a large litter and it could be that she l...

LittlePenBigHeart says... " Grains are not a normal part of a cat diets. I can't remember the last time I saw a cat hunting down a field of rice. " Well, I don't know where you live, but my cats would have a VERY long way to run before they found a field of rice - thousands of miles I bel...

I like the Catsan clumping litter. It is dusty, most clay based ones are, but I only notice it when pouring the litter out not when the cats are using it and having open trays it is easy to see if there are clouds of dust coming up. Its nicely fine grained, they all seem to like it for digging in an...

One of my Mother's cats used to suffer from skin irritation, however it was only for a few weeks a year. At first it was put down to being a reaction to the booster vaccinations, until she was a little late having the vaccinations and the skin problem had already started, it was then decided that it...

I will suggest that instead of Etsy try Folksy, a UK based site with a lot of handmade items on it of all descriptions, perfect for helping support small UK businesses. I will admit to an ulterior motive for the recommendation, I sell on Folksy (as the FTC Leather Goods shop), I tried getting on to ...

He is going to be a stunner when he is truly fit and healthy again. It's surprising how quickly a stray cat can decide that a warm bed and regular meals more than make up for being a house cat.

Thank you for taking him on and getting him the treatment he needs, particularly the neutering.

Doesn't look like the Euro € sign to me, I would have said a slightly wonky Dollar $ sign if anything.

I do remember one time when the company I work for ordered a new computer monitor from Amazon. When it arrived it wasn't a 24" monitor it was a 12" Jazz LP. The person who had ordered it notified Amazon, arranged to return the LP and have a monitor sent out. No problem returning it, but wh...

We used them for quite a few months to try and settle things between our three cats not long after getting the juniors. They did seem to help at the time, however when i got made redundant we decided that it was worth trying without them as they are rather expensive month after month. We let the cur...

I will admit to using a quick spray of Oust when mine have been particularly smelly just before we want to use the room with the litter tray in, never around the cats and never around their food or water, but normally just a quick spray in the air above the litter tray. The best thing for keeping od...

Its black friday so Amazon's computers are probably in overdrive. If they do send things through and you don't want them remember that according to distance selling laws you do have the right to a 'cool off period' and can return them just because 'you no longer want it' rather than there having to ...

I would just leave her to it. She has everything she needs up there and you say she is coming down when she wants food so she know that there is a downstairs, she just isn't bothered about it at the moment.

Every cat owner know you don't just need Plans A, B and C when dealing with a cat, you need at least down to Plan Z and and it's probably worth having Alpha, Beta and Gamma worked out as well.