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Calling All Cat Owners......

Our vet has suggested I sprinkle Ipakitine powder on my 18-year-old cat's food. It is supposed to be odourless and tasteless. Not to Maggie it isn't. She won't go near any of the tasty morsels I have...

Connemmara

dog sniffing

Hi All For quite a bit of time and time again - my little dog seems to sniff at the side of my shed of which I cannot get access to as it is wedged to a fence - then he barks hence I can be thinking...

ladybirder

I Hate My Cucking Fat Today.

Got into bed at 12.30 ish this morning with my book and immediately smelled a not very nice smell. Then realised my 18 year old cat had peed on my beautiful one week old £200 bedspread. Yanked...

Rafferty

European Pet Couriers

I'm going to be returning to England this summer after living in Spain and want to take my dog with me. I will be returning at the end of June but Benji can't follow until the mandatory 6 months after...

ttfn

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Groupie

Goldfish?? not eating

Hello recently my pond was visited by Herons and they ate all my fish, I i got more fish and net covered it. Re-stocked with fish 20 goldfish and 17 black goldfish? I know g/fish start life black but...

treetops1

Tempting Cats Out.

My daughter has left her 2 cats with us while she goes on holiday. One has disappeared in the house somewhere the other has hidden behind the washing machine. My question is..she feeds them dry food...

sandrajo

Leaving a dog indoors

Whats's the longest time you have left your dog home alone? I hate leaving my 3 more than 4 hours...

wheaten

pet insurance

Does anyone know of a pet insurance compay that gives you a good deal? I have a 7 year old male dog and a (nearly) 1 year old female dog (both Wheatens). The male costs about £27 a month now and...

bigsister

does anyone know whether the supermarkets sell animal painkillers.

I think my dog may have toothache. She is rubbing her mouth and seems 'out of sorts'. If i could buy something to tide us over until we can see the vet tomorrow, I'm sure it would help her. She is a...

devon dave

Whippets

My mother has three whippets 9, 8, and 3, recently the two youngest whippets have started attacking the older one for no apparent reason. Has anybody got any ideas why and whay can she do about it. I...

boxtops

No. 1 Son has had the all clear...

Our dear puss No 1 Son had a growth on his back which was removed last week - the vet has just phoned to say that it was benign, all removed, and all OK. Breathe easy again....

Cowtipper

Video: Missing cat finds owner during interview

A cat that went missing after a tornado ripped through Alabama finds its owner while she's being interviewed on the news. http://www.cnn.com/vi...ring.intv.wiat?hpt=C2...

crisper

Stray Cat

Hiya.. since about 6am this morning, there's been a cat outside our house, it seems to be ok, scruffy looking, but fairly well fed by the look of things. We've never seen it before,and it doesn't...

dalebillster

cat losing hair... advice needed please

Hi ABers, my persian x, 4 yr old cat molly is slowly losing hair in various parts of her body. there are sore, bald patches over her one eye, directly on the top of her head, down parts of her back...

kat1

FAO BOXTOPS

Have you found Rover yet?

Tezzabell

dog having heavy sniffing bouts

my 11 month old whippet x italian greyhound has recently started to have heavy loud sniffing bouts! she is oerwie fine but occassionally, maybe twice (usually at night) she does maybe 4/5 heavy loud...

Rubyrose

Bonding male kittens

I recently got a little kitten from a litter that my friends cat had. I called him Leo. He haS been at my house 4 days already and after being initially scared he settled in quite well. Very playful,...