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I feel like I'm always posting on here these days!!! Our kittens seem to eat weirdly and I don't know how weird it is so I don't know whether we need to take them to the vet. Dylan is the weirdest - he has cooked chicken for dinner every night and it takes him, like 30 minutes to eat a small bowl of...

Thanks both!

The weather has been too rotten yesterday and today so I'll give both of those a try as soon as the weather clears up a bit and I'll report back.

We've been letting our kittens out for about a month or so now and Dylan has learned to use it pretty well, although he can't seem to understand that coming in doesn't require throwing himself at the flap at the speed of light! Anyway, Pepsi just cannot get to grips with it. At all. She LOVES being ...

Their pupils usually dilate like that when they're focusing on something, such as when they're hunting. Prolonged eye contact with cats is often a challenge, so your cat may have interpreted it as play time. If you watch a cat hunting a toy, their pupils dilate right before they pounce, so it might ...

Ruth B is absolutely right. I work for an extremely good pet shop (the name of which I won't include here) and I've had training on pet foods. When the standard cat foods, such as KiteKat, Whiskas, Felix, etc, say 4% minimum, it's vital to remember this is only 4% meat DERIVATIVES. That means as lon...

Ruth, some cats just had a sensitivity to certain foods, so don't give up just yet! Essentially, brands like Felix, Whiskas, etc contain onl 4% real meat, so they're kind of like McDonald's for cats. If you switch them right over to a high-meat food, or even one that just has a highER meat content, ...

We have a similar situation with our kittens, also bought from a centre. What I would say is that Royal Canin has an awful lot of fillers and a low meat content. It's not going to harm your cat, so long as their digestion appears to improve while they're on it, BUT I wouldn't recommend it for long-t...

Thanks for the reply. He did have several trips to the vets to try and find out what was wrong when we first got him, all to no avail. I had pretty much decided that it was just something we would have to live with as it wasn't bothering him, then I thought I might as well ask and see if anyone had...

Oh goodness, it sounds as though we have cats with the same problem! Ever since we got the kittens, the girl kitten has had a runny tummy. She had tests on a stool sample (that was a gross experience) that showed nothing actually wrong with her, and like your cat, she seemed to be absolutely fine in...

That's amazing!!!!

One of our neighbour's cats was on the wall between our gardens earlier, watching the kittens play. Not sure if the kittens even noticed him!

Sorry everyone, I should have said that they were neutered and spayed shortly after we adopted them in May so everything is good on that front (they're brother and sister and we really didn't want any more kittens running around!!). When we let our oldest cat out for the first time, it was nerve-wra...

So our two kittens are now just over 8 months old. At their last weigh-in (around 6 weeks ago) they were around 2.6kg and 2.3kg. They've had their leukemia jabs and I feel fairly certain our oldest cat was the same age/size when she went out for the first time but it just seems too soon! We hit a co...

Definitely sounds like cat flu to me. Bubbles was ill with it when we were going to adopt him and it was a month before we could bring him home because he was so poorly. :cry: Your cat will likely be fine in a week or two, with treatment, but bear in mind that once a cat has had cat flu, they can be...

How funny!! You'd think they'd prefer the better quality stuff, wouldn't you!? Maybe it's like switching from pizza to salad, though. And let's be honest, most of us would much rather have the pizza, lol! Thankfully, I have bought some of the 70% real meat one before and they gobbled it up very enth...

Thanks both, I really appreciate the replies. We've been giving the Sensitive food to Pepsi for the last couple of months because she was having runny poos constantly (yes, they are siblings. The only two in a litter). But Dylan has always been fine until now, no matter what we give him so maybe it'...

We adopted Pepsi and Dylan in May when they were 3 months old. From the moment we got her home Pepsi could not tolerate normal cat food and we had to give her sensitivity biscuits and either cooked chicken or all natural foods. Dylan, on the other hand, has been able to eat anything at all. Until no...

Hahaha!

You'd love the FB group I'm in...I'm studying for a degree through the Open University and someone started a group called 'OU Cats and Their Slaves'. About sums it up!

No worries. I hope they figure out what is going on with her. Until then, if you're able, it's worth shutting her in a separate room for one night, with her own litter tray and her own bowl of water, so you can see how much she drinks and wees during the night. That way you can tell the vet if she d...

Yeah we used to give it to our last cat quite often when he'd been in scraps with other cats (frequently) or when his osteoarthritis in his back legs played up (every Winter). Honestly, the only thing we ever noticed in him while he was on it was he moved better and seemed happier!

Did the vet do blood tests? And how much is she drinking?

The reason I ask is that sometimes what she's doing can be a symptom of conditions that affect the kidneys. It was one of the things we were told to watch for when our last cat was on diuretics.

Hahaha! Sneaky little so and so!!

I think this is why nature has made them so adorable. None of us would put up with them otherwise!

Hahaha, thanks everyone! Last night would have made you laugh. I had been out so went straight to bed when I got home at midnight, but let the cats in while I readied myself. By the time I'd taken off my make up, etc I had two kittens on the bed and a cat on the floor next to the bed! My husband kic...

Difficult one! I'm going to say the hard thing here and tell you I don't know if getting a kitten is a good idea. I understand the want of one but honestly, my opinion here is based on experience. We introduced a kitten around 4 years ago to a cat who sounds similar in temperament to your own. He wa...

I am so, so sorry for what you're going through. The general rule of thumb, I think, in situations like this, is to wait until a point where the cat has little to no quality of life. If they are barely eating, barely drinking, have no interest in play and sleep all the time, it's probably time to le...

Oh bless your heart! Honestly, I think you did the right thing in rescuing the cat. Anyone who is willing to treat an innocent animal so cruelly doesn't deserve to keep it. Cats feel pain and neglect and how anyone could hit a cat like that is completely beyond me. It's hard to speculate what might ...

This is pretty much exactly what I said to my husband when I discovered that he was giving in, getting up and feeding them when he does it! I didn't realise until then that he was rewarding the behaviour. Sadly, no way to keep him off the landing. We don't have baby gates or anything like that and I...

One of our kittens has gotten into an ADORABLE habit of scratching at the bedroom door, rabidly, from 5.30am. Every. Day. I'm exhausted.

HOW can we get him to stop!?!?!?

I feel some of your pain, actually, We've done Frontline, Stronghold and Advocate. We've sprayed the house with the most animal-safe but still noxious flea spray money can buy. The eldest is fine, but both the kittens are permanently riddled. We actually have very few fleas around the house in gener...

Oh bless you!! When we had our oldest cat, Gizzy, spayed about 5 years ago, she also developed a lump under the incision afterwards. We took her to the vet to get it checked out but they assured us it was just something that can happen after an op and it's nothing to worry about. Keep an eye on it a...

Oh no! WE used to have the same problem with Mr Bubbles every summer and it drove me to distraction. While my husband was convinced he was okay (he always was), I would drive around the block, worried out of my mind, and struggle to sleep in case I heard the catflap or his bell. Many was the time I ...