Hi. We have a young black cat about 7 months old. Any time you place
her on a soft material like a blanket made of wool, she seems to very
slowly be pushing her front paws into the material. We cannot tell if
she is stretching or exercising or just feeling the material. Has

Any suggestions about how to judge whether a cat sitter is good or not?
I've interviewed a few, they seem nice. One does it after work, the other
is full time, plus she has references (but how can you trust those). They
both made cooing noises with cat and seem fine -

Saw an interesting tidbit in Cat Fancy while at the vets today that
mentioned the success of "stampidine" in easing viral load and even
completely getting rid of viral load in FIV cats. Anyone hear more about
this?

1. Owning an interesting breed of cat doesn’t make you interesting.
2. If they were called "Krapinski Cats", would anybody brag that they have
one?
3. Who needs a cat that knocks over precious knick-knacks?

ok hello,
I have a 4-7 year old Tortoiseshell, spayed, female cat named Bella. She is
very loving and friendly with just about anyone. She suffers from a heart
murmur and is getting extra taurine for it but all else in her life is

I recently got my cat spayed. She is a Russian blue and about a year and a
half old. Anyways she has always liked to bite but now she bites me all the
time, especially me feet. Can cats become more agressive after being fixed?

I put my nose down there, and it stinks...what should I do?

my cat had a litter of four kittens and about a month later we found one of
them dead. two days later another one started to fall when walking he
looked like a person who was drunk. not to long after it loooked like ehe
lost control of his legs, he could not walk. he was twirling in ...

I have three kittens whose mother disappeared when they were three weeks
old.  They are 8 weeks now and doing really well.  I've always left a bowl
of dry kibbles with kittens at all times because kittens need to eat
frequently.  They have been weaned from their milk for more ...

My cat sleeps in the bed with me. He likes to sleep on top of the blanket
leaning on my side - this stops me from rolling over on him..But it also
stops me from rolling over when I want to. He switches from side to side,
there is no pattern to it.  

I can't decipher your email address - could you send me an email
please?  My address in header is good:  gentleboa (at) peacemail (dot)
com.
Thanks. :)

One of our cats, Gabe, had a problem at our old house where he would scratch
the throw rug in the living room instead of his scratching post.  After
keeping an eye on him, we were able to substitute his scratching post for
the carpet and all was well.  Now, we have moved and the ...

Wondering if anyone else's cat love tissue paper like mine do?  After I make
the bed each morning I put a few pieces out on the bed for Tux.  Well he
lays on it for hours at time and especially loves to play in it.  He starts
stalking it and then he'll run and slide on it (it's a ...

aah he got caught in the rain
http://www.barryparrish.com/image/cat/

Please feel free to cross post this information. I would like to get this
info to as many people as possible. Many of you may already be aware of
these issues but for those who are not, I hope that the following helps.
The following is a summary of a very interesting article that ...