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Hi everyone! Just a few updates with Spock and a question.

So i just thought i'd post about my kitten Ally...Again.

Things she does that are adorable:
-Even though the dog is obviously three times her size she will jump on her and attack her ears, snout and tail.
-She is very sweet in the morning, but gets more hyper and wants nothing to do with cuddling and only wants to play as the day wears on.
-If you pass her and she's hiding under a chair or bed she'll attack your ankles or feet.
-She would rather sleep in a plastic chair than her soft catbed anyday.
-She will only go outside if you are outthere with her. If you leave her out there and close the door then she will climb up the door and peek in the window. Her way of saying let me back in.
-She knows how to get what she wants. If you are trying to be stern with her she will look at you with those greenish-gray eyes and meow in the sweetest way to get what she wants. She always wins.
-last but not least when you are sitting up, obviously not asleep, she will try to laydown on your neck or chest.

I will post pictures up later. She's the cutest thing.

I have a question though. She likes to jump on the table and explore it. How do i stop that? If i tell her no she waits until i walk toward her then jumps off. But a few minutes later she's up there again. I wouldn't mind if sometimes food wasn't on the table.

Today my mother and I went to our local humane society to look at the dogs that are up for adoption, because our Rotty-Dane mix is in bad shape and probably won't see the end of winter. :/ While we were there, we decided to look in on the cats and kittens, and there she was-- A tiny, bedraggled tuxedo kitten, with the saddest eyes I have ever seen on a kitten so young.

We asked the staff member who'd accompanied us to the upper floor about her, and it turns out they'd just found her the day before inside their boardroom. She'd been abandoned by her mother, and they'd already lost 2 of her littermates. My mother took one look at her and volunteered to foster her right there on the spot.

I live out in a rural area, so our Humane Society is often over filled and understaffed-- They didn't really think twice about letting us bring her home in hopes of nursing her to full health. They'd had her with a surrogate mama, but they were still thinking they'd lose her anyways. She's about a month old, and we're calling her Darling, because she's so tiny-- about the size of the two kittens my female had when they were 2-3 weeks, far too small for her actual age. She has a URI, which is why they were so pessimistic about her survival, but we ought to be able to clear that up just fine.

As soon as we had her out of her cage and being cuddled by my mother and I, she perked right up. Just seeing this feels like a hopeful sign, that she just needed some private care and attention, which I can't fault the shelter for being unable to provide, since all of their cat rooms are absolutely filled.

I've raised kittens before, but they had their mother for milk, though we supplemented it with formula-- If no one minds, could I get a few tips for straight-formula feeding? We're using a syringe right now, because we've lost the bottle that came with the formula, and she seems interested enough, but she won't lap it up herself, and I'm afraid of making her eat, incase she accidentally aspirates it.

Here are some recent pictures of my baby boy. My man is in one of the pictures too, Tino makes him feel right at home haha.

Quick question:
Does anyone know if it's ok to use ear drops that were prescribed for my dog on my cat?

My vets already closed and I can't call to ask. I want to say that the red ear drops were prescribed to my cat about 3 years ago as well but I can't remember. We usually keep a bottle on hand just in case because my dog gets ear infections quite often.


[edit] Let me edit to say I already knew that this wasn't advised, I'm against people sharing medicine as well, which my parent's aren't. My mother wanted me to ask on here because she wanted to use my dogs ear drops on her cat. Our vet is closed, and it's the weekend and she is freaking out because she doesn't know what to do. She even wanted to use sweet oil which I told her not to. The same cat had a UTI for two weeks and just got off penicillin.

But as I stated, I am pretty sure the same ear drops were prescribed before is why I was asking here to see if anyone knew anything about ear drops. I can't find any info about them online. KOTO ear drops.

The cats ares are pink, as well as the skin showing through the scent glands area, and they feel warm to the touch, and are a bit smelly.

Dear fellow cat lovers,

This is an update for first post, second post, third post, fourth post, fifth post and sixth post.

It has been almost 6 months since they were adopted. Time flies. :)
The owner took some photos and sent them to me today. Enjoy. :)

Left: Mabel
Right: Matt



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So i walked into my bathroom and the cat was peeing in the sink so i picked her up and put her on the toilet and told her to pee in the toilet. Now that i think about it why did i tell a cat to pee in the toilet ? I've done some crazy things. I've seen some crazy things. One of my cats lives in an egg box. He never leaves it. My younger male, he plays under my Christmas tree. Both Kiki and Boots sleep on either side of me in the tiny bed and won't let me get up in the morning. Especially when i wake up with a Boots on my chest. Its hard to get up especially when you really have to go in the middle of the night. So i must ask you what are some weird things you find yourself doing with your cats, and what are some weird things they do ?

Also i took my Tiniest kitty Boots to the vet on that monday. Shes alright now she just had a flea allergy and was sick from chewing on her fur. Shes more lively now and kinda hyper almost.

Hi, I'm finmagik and this is list of what makes my kitty Ivan special.

- He waits fo me by the door when I come home and always expects a pet.

- He loves to cuddle, but is not a lap sitter, he'll sit next to you.

-He's always finding new ways to 'hunt' his favorite toy, da bird,

- He loves kittens! He thinks kittens are great fun and when he meets one he wants to play and befiend it.

- He loves goat! He goes nuts over a finger full of chevre, a creamy goat cheese (all I give him is finger tup full). And when I brought home goat meat, for stew he became weirdly obessed with that too. I wonder if he'd like goat milk? Cow diary products he's meh, on. He'll lick chedder then ignore it, cream and milk and ever cat sip are not ranked highly in his book.

- He expects me to hunt for him! We have high ceilings and when he sees a bug on the ceiling he starts calling for me to come with the broom handle to knock it down so he can chase and eat it.

That is what makes Ivan special in my opinion. What makes your cat or cats speical?

hey there everyone! i've been lurking for some time now as i couldn't get a cord to upload photos onto my computer. i finally managed to get one so i'm here now to share pictures!

my boyfriend and i adopted this cute little girl from a rescue three months ago. she will be five months old on sunday :) her name is leeloo dallas multipass :P



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I spent two hours at the rescue yesterday. It was a mad house! We had quite a few adoptions. There were 9 new kittens that I needed to get photos of. Three got adopted as I walked in the door, but what's amazing is the siamese boy was still there! Haha, the lady that took two said that she already had a siamese, so she wanted something different! ;D

The other kitten from that litter that got adopted went with one of our senior kitties! :D Mackenzie found a home! She hates other cats...but she tolerates them well enough (similar to my roommate's cat, Jenny), and the family has another young cat for the kitten to be a companion to. They also got the enormous cat tree that went with one of our featured cats this month! This month we're featuring our seniors, and now Boogaloo (12 years old) is the only one left. Someone needs to give the old man a few good years in a nice warm home!

I recall yesterday mentioning that all the cats I write about are mixed breeds, but I have to admit every now and then we do get purebreds! One of our volunteers drove down to Denver the other day to pick up two 1.5 year old Scottish Folds! I have my fingers crossed that she'll bring them into the shelter so I can get pics before they're snatched up! One is calico and one is grey tabby. :) I'll include a couple photos their foster mom took of them (despite the flash being on and them having glowing eyes! lol) at the bottom of my post.

For now, pictures!

My cat Nicadmis loves to pooh on the floor. I clean litter box everyday. I took her to the vet and he is in tip top shape. She will only pee in the box. what is with her I need your help

In case you did not catch my last post, I got an adorable new kitty on Sunday. My new kitty Syfte (pronounced "sift") adjusted to the move really well. She immediately acted right at home. Didn't hide for awhile or anything. My two older cats hiss at her and sometimes swat at her, but it doesn't bother her in the least! My orange cat is coming around, and now sometimes plays with her, but my black cat is still acting hostile, although I'm sure he'll come around in a week or two, if not sooner. Don't worry, kitty is not in any danger. She is so well-behaved, though. She always uses her litter box, she never purposely runs or hides from me (she sometimes catnaps under the couch, but if I peek down there and call to her, she comes right to me), etc. The only bad behavior she's exhibited at all is that she has clawed my couch a few times, but I'm not too concerned about that. I have some cat scratching toys around that she hasn't seemed to warm up to yet, but my couch is nothing special or expensive anyway. Anyway, I just needed to share that because my two older cats were so bad when they were kittens! I'm in shock at how good she is! She's adorable, too. She has beautiful markings (pictures in previous post, and I'm sure I'll post more in the future). She loves the crinkly tunnel toy we have and loves to chase jingly balls. Sometimes she follows me everywhere! And she has a really funny mew. I can't even describe it. Anywho, that's my kitty rant.

XOXO

I just wanted to introduce my 4 month old Maine Coon to the community.
Here's my little Jupiter

So today i took Ally outside to explore the yard. I carried her to the back and set her down. We have this thing out back where its like a box and an old sofa is pushed up against it and it has gaps from behind the couch. She went in there and hid in the back, but when i called her she came and neatly sat on a flat rock like she was a little princess. Then of course the dog cameand she darted back in. So i went and put Sadie (the dog) back inside then went to check on Ally. I called her and she came out again and she was messing with some dead grass, chewing on it. I was sort of concerned, but i read that its okay for cats to chew on grass if its only the normal type and nothing is sprayed on it. and since my sis and her husband never tend to their yard (theres hardly any grass left) i knew it was okay. Well i picked her up and set her on the back porch and she glanced up at me and meowed then i petted her and she started purring. she was so adorable. and when i picked her up she was so nice, usually she wants leaped down, but i used my sweet voice and she relaxed and she started purring again.

Now she's inside and sleeping. i guess her little exploring exhausted her, because when i called her to put her to bed she didn't even complain. Which she usually comlains or runs away. she's so adorable! i'll post pics later.

i have a question though. she recently turned 4 months and since i'm letting her outside i'm worried about her getting pregnant. My sister's old cat Nia got pregnant and i'm worried that Ally will too. Anyways, my question is this: How old is it that cats can get neutered? 4 or 6 months? Ally only weighs 2-3 pounds right now, maybe at most.

I was home from school a few days ago and took some pix of the kittles. They are mostly of my fat orange cat, but perhaps a few others, too. Enjoy :)

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Hi all,

I posted a while back about my cat, Cowboy, inappropriately eliminating outside of the litter box. Sadly, Cowboy peacefully passed away at home shortly after his diagnosis with Feline Leukemia.

Several weeks after Cowboy's death, we adopted a kitten (FeLV negative, hooray!) who we named Sophie. Sophie has adjusted well to our two large dogs and one of our two cats. However, our cat Biscuit has been showing some aggression towards her.

Biscuit, who is somewhere between 5 and 6 years old, was aggressive with Cowboy as well, which we assumed had something to do with him being an intact male (all of our pets, save one dog, are spayed females). He died before we could have him neutered, so we never really knew for sure what set Biscuit off.

At around 14 weeks, Sophie is still too young to be spayed, but I'd also think that at that age, she wouldn't be a real threat to the hierarchy, either.

I may be waaaay off base here, but I'm still fairly new to cat ownership so I'm looking for help!

When Biscuit enters a room, poor Sophie usually curls up in a corner and tries to make herself inconspicuous. Biscuit has been pulling the ol' hit-and-run: first stalking Sophie, then running to her and getting a few swipes in before running away again. Sophie never defends herself.

We're not sure how to handle this. Is it something that will go away on its own? Or do we need to implement some kind of behavior modification? Any advice is welcomed!

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