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How to make neighborhood kitten understand it doesn't live with us
Short version: A neighborhood kitten has decided it likes our place. How do we teach it that it doesn’t live here?
Longer version: We have two cats. Neutered females from the same litter, about 3 years old. They are indoor/outdoor cats, but we do…
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Is it necessary to cover the top in a pond with silver arowana?
I have a 400 gallon (1500 L) pond with two oscars, two tinfoil barbs and a 10" silver arowana. I've had this arowana for like 2 months and it hasn't try to jump out, yet.
It has plenty of room to swim around ( around 3 sqm) and if it want to jump…
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What is most appropriate age to neuter/spay a cat?
What is the most appropriate age to neuter or spay a cat?
Does gender, way he behaves, time of year, anything else affect it?
There is a related question, which I think should be linked, but doesn't exactly answer the question: How does early…
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How to clean/wash litter box that had clay litter?
We recently switched from a corn based litter to a clay based one bc of recommendations for clumping and odor control.
However I read that the litter should not be flushed because they may expand in the pipes.
So, now I'm paranoid about doing a…
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How can I stop my boyfriend's cat from attacking me?
My boyfriend owns a 9 year old female cat (Lucy). She is a street cat. She has never been spayed, and has given birth once to a single dead kitten. This happened about four years ago. She's a bit overweight now.
I told my boyfriend that I thought it…
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Why is my MIL's chihuahua peeing on our bed?
My mother in law (MIL) lives with us and she has two chihuahuas. We also have 2 chihuahuas and all 4 are female.
3 of the 4 are house-trained "enough" but the 4th one has the habit of peeing on our furniture when we're not around. If we leave our…
Pieter Breed
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My cat uses the litter box wrong!
My cat (a three year old female) is great at going into her litter box when she needs to go. No problems with missing it, deliberately or accidentally. However, she seems to do it wrong.
This summary of how a cat uses a litter box says:
When cats…
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Why do my cats drop their toys in their water bowl?
I have two young cats (a male and a female, litter mates, 19 months old) who have developed an intriguing behaviour that I haven't seen in any other cats before.
Without fail, when I come downstairs in the morning, one of them has dropped a toy…
user10093
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Is there a "shock collar" that doesn't actually shock the pet, but instead just makes loud noises?
I don't want to get shock collars because I don't like the thought of hurting my pet, but what I'm looking for is a collar that instead of shocking the pet with electricity, just produces startling sound when they pass the perimeter. So it would be…
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Does medicating an entire tank harm healthy fish?
I have a female guppy, that's been through a lot of stress over the past year. She's moved from my friend's overcrowded, unclear green algae tank to mine, has had babies 4 times, has had internal parasites (was separated into a hospital tank,…
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What 'Special Occasion' Food Can I Feed My Cat?
My cat goes in for surgery tomorrow, which makes tonight possibly her last night on this earth. I want to give her something special for dinner. She loves chicken and poultry in general, and also cheese. I was thinking of just giving her some,…
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Why is my cat suddenly urinating outside of the litter box?
We have an 8 year old cat that recently started peeing in one spot in the hallway. During the summer months she spends most of her time outside but during the cold winter she stays inside mostly, could this be causing her some anxiety?
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Sustained diarrhea with my cat
We have a rescue cat who is a little more than a year old. We recently moved apartments and everything fine till about a month ago. He started getting diarrhea very often. The vet gave him an antibiotic injection and things seemed to improve. His…
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First time owning a cat
This is the first time I have a cat in my life. She is almost 10 months. She came home yesterday and she was wandering around the house, which has a litter box, food, and water.
This morning, I found my cat hiding under the bed and she hasn't come…
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How do I stop cats from jumping and climbing on a balcony net?
I live on an upstairs floor and have a big balcony. To protect my cats from jumping off the balcony, I've put on a net around the whole balcony, but the cats jump on the net and climb to the top.
How can I stop them from doing that?
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