Do domestic cats sometimes defecate when they are scared such as when on the veterinarian’s consultation table? The answer quite definitely is yes. I have personal experience of this when I took my then three-legged black, male cat to the vet because of what transpired to be a tumour behind his eye. He was …
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Here is a very typical “bad cat behaviour problem”. And, in reality, it is not a bad cat behaviour problem at all but a human-created problem. Husband and wife have a baby and the baby sleeps in the bedroom with them. All very normal. For years the family cat slept in the bedroom with …
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My cat got mixed up between urinating and spraying and I wonder if this happens to other domestic cats. He uses a sand pit in the garden as a toilet. I was watching him at a distance and he started to urinate. He squatted down and started. He then raised his bottom and tail …
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Having studied the law of Alabama I can confirm that the animal welfare laws include some exceptions one of which is that a person who shoots a dog or cat with a BB gun not capable of inflicting serious injury when the dog or cat is defecating or urinating on the person’s property does …
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We have been told by Matt Chorley, a Times journalist, that there is the lingering smell of cat piss in the passages connecting numbers 10 to 12 Downing Street. The culprit? Larry the Cat who is the resident mouser at the offices of the Prime Minister. We are told that he is trying the …
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Your cat might need two litter boxes. Has that ever occurred to you? I have never heard of it but it may be the case that, rarely, a domestic cat may need two litter boxes as some cats have a propensity to poop in one place and pee in another (or vice versa). Ruth …
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