cats

I thought it would be completely impractical until I realized you could use an ear thermometer with a longer probe designed for animals (as opposed to using a rectal reading). The problem is I don't know of any ideal pulse or temperature. Has anyone tried the Broda Barnes technique on a pet?

Both of my cats are ‘fixed’. The male had his testes removed at birth and the female had her ovaries removed at 1 year of age. The male is 5 years old and the female is 2. We adopted both cats after the fact. I want them to have the best lives possible (they are very good friends to me) and I...

Our family just had a horrific experience with an animal shelter and we are desperate for help. Our cat had a litter of 4 kittens, all of whom were adopted to new owners, but stayed with us for a little longer so as to not separate them from their mother and siblings too early. Just before the...

Removing ovaries in humans is associated with a plethora of diseases (Wikipedia). Spaying dogs was shown to have negative effects in multiple studies (see here). However, for cats it is claimed that spaying hardly has any negative effects or even worse, that it's overall beneficial. How is that...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10637357/Australias-new-cat-curfew-ban-pets-going-outside.html Just the beginning - pretty soon you will be told "owning pets/animals is bad for the environment and your precious dogs/cats will receive the Shanghai treatment: View...

This one is for cat lovers :cat: Recently a stray cat brought kittens to our house so we're now in charge of feeding four cats. So I'm wondering, do cats need carbohydrates and what type would be best for them? I know they officially don't, or at least not much, but I recall Ray once saying...

My cat has elevated liver enzymes that the vet and I think are caused by either the nasty dehumidifier water she was drinking, a liver tumor(no evidence for this other than the elevated enzymes), or a bacterial infection. The vet wants to put her on denamarin for a month, but I'm hesitant to...

So, I am trying to make sense of Mehtylene blue's actions, NO2, nitrates, caffeine, and everything else RP has shed light on. This one man fed his cats eggs, broccoli/asparagus, bacon and coffee with cream every morning and two of them lived incredibly long lives by any standard. I would love...

My 2 meezers are scheduled to get fixed soon. They are over a year old, weigh about 5-6 pounds each, and are cycling pretty regularly. I wonder if anyone has thoughts or recommendations about how to ease the trauma of the hormonal shift (at least one will most likely be in heat at the time...