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Gizzy had a big lump under her chin last year and we took her to the vet. They said it looked as thought she'd eaten a bee!! And it had stung her inside the mouth. Ouch. :shock: They gave her an antibiotic injection to be on the safe side but essentially, there was nothing more they could do - it ju...

As the others have said, you need to make sure the cats are well away from the area for a few hours after use, and air the room well before letting them back in. Just a few quick things to add: Make sure you hoover before you spray the house and then leave the spray on the floors for AT LEAST A WEEK...

Some cats are, unfortunately, not very secure, and they feel very threatened over their territory pretty easily. Some are just not very good with strangers. We had a cat like this. He was fine with us, he was fine with my Dad (who tended to look after him while we were away), but he was pretty aggre...

Yes, it definitely can change. Our two youngest started life with the most incredible colouring and patterning - a sort of smokey grey with white tips and black at the bottom. They were stunning. As they got older (they're 1 now), they've become simply black cats. However, the majority of cats stay ...

I don't have a cat with a diagnosis of feline asthma but there's been a question mark over one of our cats for a few months now, so we saw a specialist who gave us some information about feline asthma. I'll try to remember as much as I can. There are different treatments for it. Initially, if the di...

You do need to spend time with them but keeping them with you at night is unnecessary. When we got our oldest cat, she was kept in the spare room. I spent almost all of my free time with her but she spent the nights in there and the time that I was at work most days. She has always been completely a...

People will have very different opinions and I certainly don't want to disrespect anyone, but I disagree that the best one is whichever she will eat, I'm afraid. If a child refuses to eat anything but McDonald's, that doesn't make it the best food option for the child, and it's the same thing with a...

The behaviour is highly unlikely to be linked to diet, but if they're on Iams, it's definitely worth looking at a change to something more natural like More or Canagan. The best advice I came across when our cats were fighting a lot was that you should never reprimand a cat for attacking another bec...

Thank you so much for your help. I've looked at both of those but he doesn't really fit the symptoms for either because he's never had a cough or a number of the other symptoms. He did see a specialist about this - and I must say I trust the specialist completely. She wasn't confident about diagnosi...

Thank you so much for your reply, Catfan. Dylan hasn't coughed or wheezed or anything - in fact there's been no sign of any problems since that one first attack (he was taking very short, shallow breaths and made almost a short sighing sound as he got to the end of each out-breath), aside from sligh...

That's great news, Honeybelle. I'm so glad you're finding a useful approach. When you start really looking into what goes into pet foods and what should or shouldn't be in there, it's a hell of an eye opener! Bird foods are worse. Where in the UK there's a law that there has to be a minimum of 4% an...

We haven't got confirmation that Dylan is asthmatic but I just wanted to ask advice from anyone with experience on the subject. Is it generally obvious all the time that they're asthmatic, or is it something that only flares up from time to time? Dylan had those breathing difficulties that one time ...

Absolutely agree with the advice offered here. We had a cat a while ago who took to meowing at the door and scratching at it like a werewolf at 5am every day. We had to completely ignore him. No shouting, no pleading, no noises at all. At one point he did it for over 40 minutes straight and we were ...

You've looked at behavioural problems so the next thing to look at IS dermatological issues but rather than spend a fortune going to a dermatologist, the best step is to look first at the diet. An incredibly high number of skin problems in pets are caused by poor diet. It's completely understandable...

Are you in the UK or the US?

And how is the flea situation now?

I don't want to be rude but I can't help being blunt - if your cat has been like this for a week why are you asking us instead of taking your cat to the vet? If your cat isn't eating and it's lethargic, that's a sorry state of affairs and it needs medical treatment. Please, please take her to the vet.

Hi Honeybelle I work in a pet shop where we're given extensive nutritional training. The Nature's Menu is a really good wet food for them, with a nice, high meat content and the grain free one is obviously better. Thanks to the awful adverts for things like Whiskas, KiteKat and the like, people thin...

Is the spot near a window or door at all? If so, they could be marking their territory. Otherwise, as Vanilla has said, the best approach is simply to make sure the urine smell is completely gone. Once a cat has marked a spot they'll often go back to it again and again, and other cats will follow su...

I've never heard of it before but it sounds like what's been going on with one of my cats too! She's been like it for her whole life so far (she's just over a year old). She'll be laid down, then suddenly she'll jump up and make a kind of yowling noise and start leaping about, making occasional digs...

No worries at all! I hope you can find the equivalents without too much difficulty.
Happy Easter! (Do you have Easter down under?!)

The first thing you need to know about fleas is that they don't live on the pet - they live in carpet and soft furnishings. They only jump on animals to feed. I'm not familiar with Revolution so I'm afraid I can't say whether the treatment would have been effective by the time your cat jumped on you...

Pretty much anything you buy in the supermarkets is full of rubbish, so your best bet if you want to get them something really good is to visit a specialist pet shop like Pets Corner. One of the best cat foods you can give your cat is Canagan, because it contains 60% real meat, as opposed to the 4% ...

They haven't really said yet. She just kept saying that it could be a 'lung disease', which is a little vague for me but I suppose she might not want to be more specific in case I Google anything and freak out (a fair judgement on her part).

Hi Janey

Thanks for replying.

The good news is that the heart scans all came back clear, which is great. The bad news is they think something is wrong with his lungs, so they've had to do some tests and we're waiting for the results to come back.

33-40 is high (it should be between 20 and 30) but if your cat isn't obviously struggling to breathe, if there are no wheezing or whining sounds when he breathes and he seems otherwise okay in himself, I don't think you need to rush the appointment yet. One of our previous cats had breathing of 55 r...

Remember Dylan had breathing problems and the vet thought he might have asthma? They did an x-ray, which they said looked fine but they wanted a second opinion from a specialist. They got it. The specialist thinks Dylan has an enlarged heart. I have an appointment to take him in on Monday morning so...

Hi Paul Bless, your cat sounds like a livewire! At least she's coping well. Funnily enough, it sounds like your kitten has the same issue as mine. We adopted her and her brother in May last year and noticed pretty quickly that she didn't seem very steady on her legs. She doesn't do the leg stretchin...

Thanks both. Yes, I also thought it might well be a heart condition, but the vet says she listened to his heart and it sounded fine. This is not definitive enough for my liking. We lost a cat to heart failure last year after a year of high-dose meds and of course, got very panicky when I saw Dylan w...

This afternoon I noticed Dylan was breathing pretty quickly and on his out-breath he seemed to be wheezing a little. We rushed him to the vet, who couldn't find anything obviously wrong with his heart or lungs (the last time we took a cat to the vet with breathing problems he turned out to have hear...

vanilla wrote:Where do you buy these brands from LittlePenBigHeart ??

I get them from Pets Corner.