i have a 6yr olde cat and i was thinking about getting another will my cat become jealous?
i heard it is best if you keep 2 dogs instead of one as a companion. But i really just want one dog to start out will she be unhappy. thanks
what if i get a kitten but then my dog doesn't like the kitten?
Of rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, and other small animals can happily co-habitate?
I have three cats,all adult cats. I have been finding cat urine spots on the carpet.I keep their litter box clean.They are all indoor cats. Is there a way to stop this. And is there a way to eliminate the smell.
Hi :) I have a chawawa shes 1 year old, and an female german shepard, we belive shes 6-8 months. When we tried introducing them, they tried attacking eachother. What can we do?
i have a 3 year old female jack russle/ italian greyhound mix. we just got a 7 week old male pit bull and brought him into the home. the female is deffinetly scared of the male and often drools and foams at the mouth. she will not go near him at all. i understand the foaming and drooling is most likely a stress and fear symptom so im not worried about that. is there any way i can get her to open up to him or is this a lost cause?
We adopted a stray a few months ago. Here lately he has been peeing in the house...which never use to happen. He'll do it when we play w/ him inside or outside...he will even pee on us while we are playing. It's like he gets too exicted and has to. His pee has a much more strong odor than our other dog. Could there be something else wrong?
Hello,
We just took in two small dogs recently (a cairn terrier and bichon frise). They are both 2+ yrs old and close companions. They were crated in their last home, but have not been in our new home over the past 5-6 wks. Over time, we noticed that they started pooping/peeing more and more around the house. We've been traveling a little more than usual as well, and after leaving them with friends on a few occasions they just started marking their territory and pooping all over the place (and just did the same in our house last night). They seem to be acting out and possibly having dietary issues as well (since we started giving them a little bit of new food recently). The terrier threw up while at our friends and there was some grass evidently in his stomach. We noticed that he had eaten a little grass when we took him outside, but did not think that it was enough to get him sick. We always told him to stop as soon as we noticed him eating grass.
We also started feeding them once a day, vs twice a day, since we're gone all day and have not had someone to let them out in the middle of the day.
Do you have any recommendations? We are taking them to a vet for shots and a general look over this week and will ask some more questions then as well. We want to assure that we're doing the right thing for our pooches and not neglecting them in any way.
Finally, do you have any advice on crating?
Thanks for your time!
Jennifer
We recently adopted a kitten who was abandoned by her mother. She was about 8 weeks old when we got her, now she's about 4 months old. She is very food-aggressive, and hisses and growls at anything that gets near her when she's eating. She also tries to eat very fast, almost to the point of choking herself. When she's done, she darts for the other animals' food dishes. Right now we just lock her in a separate room to eat, but would eventually like to feed all the animals together. What can we do to break her of the food aggressiveness?
Thanks!
Dear Dr. Spohn
Last year my wife an I got two kittens from a local animal shelter. They've both been tested negative for FIV and FeLV, but have not been tested for FHV1 (feline herpes), which we believe they probably have (since they come from a shelter). On their first months with us (they were 2 and 3 months old each) last year the female cat had two flares of conjunctivitis, while the male had a single one. This year, the female cat also had a very mild flare of conjunctivitis that did not even lasted long.
The problem is the eye of the female cat that had the conjunctivitis keeps tearing a very small amount of "rheum" indefinitely. It's not wet, and it's not on large quantities, but sometimes her eye looks "pale", and the conjunctiva is slightly more red than on the other eye. Occasionally there also some kind of weird artifacts, like it's dirty with something over the cornea (that closing/opening moves away).
After reading around the web, it seems it's probably conjunctivitis. But I don't want to go to a vet to have him/her tell me to use some antibiotic now and have the same problem again in two months. I mean, ok, she will probably have conjunctivitis for the rest of her life, but I don't think it would be good for her to spend this life under antibiotics. Specially for such a mild case of conjunctivitis. If it is conjunctivitis at all
I'm not even sure if I should take her to the vet, because it might not be detectable visually when I make the appointment. For example, sometimes her eye is like this http://imgur.com/AgPR3.jpg , but some other times is normal, like on this http://imgur.com/cnxtN.jpg picture with her brother hugging my internets.
The rheum is generally dark. I've realized that cleaning it often with tissue helps, but still not completely. Once, when using the thumb and index finger with a soft tissue, I've pulled a full fur from her eye. She has very thin fur and I even started to think it could be some pelage stuck in the eye.
She's been with these symptoms for months already, would you have any advice?
Thank you very much.
I talked to the lady about the cats and she gave me a quick run down of their history. They were rescued from a hoarder who had like 60 cats in a trailer. They are brother and sister. They are tabby maine coon mix.
There are some health issues that I want to let you know about so you can give me your honest opinion on what you think I should do.
The foster mom said that they both carry the herpes trait which is common in 80% of cats. Is that true? I never knew that, so they cant or shouldn't be around any other animals for a long period of time....that's fine with me.
One of the cats had pneumonia for a while mixed with some other things so I guess she is always going to have some sort of respiratory problems. She is on a medicine right now that is kind of like a paste and she needs to take it everyday or every couple days, but other than that she is fine.
The foster mom said that it usually acts up in times of stress....which is the issue.
A trip across the country is going to be stressful and its going to be a totally different environment in terms of weather and elevation so I don't know how that will affect the respiratory thing. The other thing she told me was that a lot of people have inquired about the cats, but once they learn of one of the cats "problems" they don't want them.
I know that I can handle giving them medicine and all that, I took care of a friends cat who has diabetes and gave him his insulin shots so that's no problem. I'm just wondering what the cost is going to be in the long run. She may need antibiotics every now and then and I don't know all the cost involved. These cats have been in foster care since late august. She, the foster mom, told me that they only live in one room in the house because of her other cats and not wanting them to get sick and all.
Ugh....I want them, but I don't or maybe can't afford to have them sick as soon as I get to the Albuquerque.
What do I do, I know you cant tell me but give me your opinion. I don't want them to live in one room for the rest of their lives you know?
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