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Kitties Are Bored…

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>See if you can find a "cat dancer" toy…
Hello Twilight16 and any others interested… I was able to locate the "Cat Dancer" toy online at www.petsmart.com It was only $1.99, so I ordered 4 of them. They should be here any day now. By the way, Petsmart has a pretty educational section [...]

Cat needs help

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Hello, I have a friend who has a very sick cat and needs help.  It is a stray cat that she picked up and from what she told me its always been sick. Now she just found out it has a bullet lodged in its head.  She doesn’t know what to [...]

Is Catnip OK for cats? Need books for references

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> We have hopes for our two kitties.  We want to retire and have > them support us.  They have interests, but not much initiative. > Hoagy Catmichael, the older, is now 5 years old.  It’s about time > for him to enter Kittygarden.  An indoor cat since adoption, he [...]

cat behavior during boarding

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Oh, no…I wasn’t trying to say that boarding a cat is a bad idea…the original poster asked for experiences…this was mine.  Actually, there was nothing wrong with this place.  It was a vet’s office, where my brother worked at the time, and he knew that the cat would be in good hands [...]

HAS ANYONE TRIED THIS PRODUCT?

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> as for a recommendation for cat litter, someone on this newsgroup got me turned > on to "world’s best cat litter." it is supposedly a superior clumping litter > made from corn. i ordered some online and i’ll report back when i try them, but > whichever gadgety [...]

Run Away Cat

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> I feed my cats twice a day.  When I put the dish down, > I always ring a small bell.  I figure that if one of them > accidentally got out, I would ring the bell, he/she would > think it was dinner time and would come running.
Yes, Michael, [...]

Advice needed – I dont want to say goodbye!

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     I don’t have advice for you…sorry, but am I reading this right…that your friends think that by the time cats are 1 year old they do not eat plants, pluck carpets through closed doors, etc.?   These are natural cat behaviors! They eat plants to help them digest (or vomit [...]

Weird Cat Behavior..

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Hi all, > How have you been? Hope you all have good holidays.:) > I have a bit of a problem…. my cat Dante’ has a fixation with the inside > of my refrigerator. He doesn’t go in and try and eat [...]

Help! My cat is CHEWING me out of house and home.

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My Maine Coon, Sylvester, was a terror until I got him a companion cat from the shelter (Tweety, a calico).  He chewed everything; my wrist, extension cords, etc.  He also used to get on his back and drag himself around the bottom of my boxspring; needless to say, he ruined it. [...]

STRANGE cat behavior!

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>     I have a deaf white female cat that used to bring home anything > cylindrical, (i.e. hoses, pens, twigs) – there is a post in this group > somewhere.  About a month ago, she stopped bringing home the cylindrical > stuff and started bringing home plastic!  She [...]