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Please forward on to whoever you can.
The law need to start recogizing the seriousness
of this type of crime. The man (allegedly) doused his two

I am going to be brining my cat in for radioactive iodine treatment
(he has been on tapazole for a few years and is starting to have some
adverse reactions to the drug).  I was wondering if anyone has done
this and could tell me what to expect when he comes home.  Also, what

My new wife and I are going to be merging our households soon. I have
one cat, she has two, and we're anticipating some feline
disagreements.
My cat is a crotchety old female who mostly ignores other cats, but

My 12 year old cat cat has just been diagnosed with intestinal cancer
mostly because she has an elevated white blood count and a lowered
protein and no other symptoms such as feline lukiema or thyroid
trouble, and no kidney involvement.  She does not have any liver

One of my cats likes to drink my Fresca.  He actually has a brand
preference.  I know it's not normal but is it dangerous.

I have a stray female who has become my cat's girlfriend. While I have
a magnetic cat flap, after finding my cat letting her in by poking his
nose out to release the flap, she has found out that by pulling the
flap outwards with her claws she can get inside. I'd like her as mine

I just woke up only to find that my 4 year old cat, Cherub, left something
on my bed while I was asleep. It's shaped kind-of like feces, although
flatter, smells like cat food, and has hair in it (coughing up a hair-ball
maybe?) and is light/medium brown. Right now, I feed him ...

my cat is absolutely adorable, but she has some bad habits.  She is
peeing fairly consistently in her litter box, but she seems utterly
unwilling to crap in the box.  I have been cleaning the box quite
regularly, and nothing seems to be changing.  My mom wants to get rid of

My 9-month old spayed female has been diagnosed with asthma.  She is being
treated with Brethine and prednisone, along with an ointment for an
opportunistic
eye infection.  Has anyone had any experience with this ... or suggestions?

Could an identity microchip implanted in a cat cause an allergic reaction?
If so, what is the nature of the reaction?
Thank you, in advance.
Mike Crossland

A crawl at the bottom of the screen on CNN this morning says North Carolina
is considering raising taxes on pet food as a means of reducing pet
overpopulation. My first reaction would be that it's about as misguided as
raising gas taxes to discourage consumption...

We went to the shelter today to adopt two kittens.  We want two so we can
share them better in our family and so they will be happier when alone.  but
there were no kittens there.  Only older cats...and no bonded pairs which we
would consider too.

I've noticed something since joining this group.
Frequently, questions are asked about conditions that, while answered with
what it probably is, are also left with encouragement to take the animal
to the vet.  Generally, a good thing, unless the cat is, say, coughing

OK, I thought I'd run this by the fine minds in RPCH+B (this newsgroup):
I have a 14 year-old female, indoor only, neutered, whom I've had since
about 4 weeks of age.  She has multiple health issues (hypertropic
cardiomyopathy, food allergy).  On Feb 2nd I took her in for a blood ...

I've got 4 indoor only cats. All 4 are micro chipped, and wear
break-away collars 24/7 with ID's, rabies tags, microchip info. It just
occurred to me thought that they've been wearing these collars non-stop
for about 4 months now since they've been off. I decided to take them