My cats like to steal tissues & torch light. It's really funny when watching they dragging the torch light or run away with a tissue. Haha.

This post has been edited by kizwan: May 24 2015, 02:28 PM

Sorry for your loss.

I don't think so. It kinda odd that your cat swallow the rubber bands. I also always throw away any objects including rubber bands, plastic bags, etc that I think that can attract the cats. Maybe your cat need new toys.

How is your cat by the way? Is he still trying to mount his toy?

Yeah, probably he is boring. A companion sound like good idea.

Try put away the teddy bear & replace with something else.

I don't have Siamese but I read they're very vocal.

My cats really love playing with small balls like the ones for the kids. Maybe you can try this.

Just want to clarify. In the span of only one day, your cat shed a lot of fur? If it's clumping of fur, then it's quite a lot though.

Ok, that's pretty bad. Your cat not in stress & I'm pretty sure you checked tick/flea, so can rule these out. I think it's food though. I know that you already change back to the regular food but it probably take a while before the problem stop. My cats also sometime have fur shedding problem too but usually there's always underlying causes like irritating from mosquito bite or tick/flea bite. In my case certain places, especially near the tail and anus, will go bald. In your case, I think the underlying cause is diet. I believe you probably already give it some time to settle down but it's not happening. All I can suggest, try change to more common food brand like Blackwood or Royal Canin. If the problem settle down, I think then you can go back to Orijen & the problem hopefully won't come back.

It has been months now that the weather hotter than usual but I do not noticed any difference on shedding on my cats though, even with DMH cats.



EDIT: Writing in forum can cause confusion sometime. When I read my post again today, it seems like I am disagreeing that cat can shedding more in certain seasons. Actually no though. Basically it just my observation on my cats. However, actually I do noticed that fur on my DMH cats are slightly less "thicker" than before though, if you know what I mean, especially around the head, neck & tail. My DMH cats a bit sensitive with the weather than other cats though.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Jun 8 2015, 02:52 PM

"Thick" probably not accurate description. I think better word is the fur around the neck & tail become shorter than it used to be. When the fur around there longer, it'll look thicker but when shorter, it'll look less thick.

BTW, do you guys have first aid kit for cat? Something simple like for treating fever & wound? I'm asking because the krim (dark yellow/orange colour) for wound that I got when spaying my cats before is pretty good in healing wound though. I've got some left that I used to treat a wound on my cat which happened because irritation from mosquito bite. I always use minyak gamat for treating wound but the krim working much faster though.

I have an appointment for neutering a male cat this Monday. If you guys have any tips to share for pre & post-operative for me please share because this will be my first time neutering male cat. Thanks.

I'm aiming to neuter two males cat before Hari Raya.

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I'm planning to do that. Thanks.

Basically similar post-operative with female cats? I was hoping to transfer him to 3-storey cage one or two days after surgery. Do you think it's good idea? With my girls around a month ago, I kept them in small cages which basically limited their movement. The thing with my cats is that they don't sits quietly, always something to do & living in rural area, basically lots of insects they like to hunt & play. Cage kind of necessary in my situation to limit their movement & to help the wound healing properly. Thinking that with male cat, the incision is extremely small, I wonder whether transferring him to bigger cage one or two day after surgery is a good idea or not.

My male cat neutered today but they don't have e-collar. We will need to monitor him regularly. It will be a long 14 days.

That's good to know. He already awake now & responding when I call him but still not fully awake. I'm planning to put him in the 3-storey cage tomorrow, when he fully awake. I don't want to separate him from his family. The other cats will be outside of the cage of course, only him in the cage.

My vet use simple stitches though like one stitch to close the outer incision. He told me the incision should be healed in 3 days. So, removing the stitch on male cats will be like removing stitches on female cats right? Either go to vet or do it ourselves right?

I feed my cats with Royal Canin one time. They actually good though but the one I get is Persian 30. The ingredient of Persian 30 is good last time I checked. The ones for regular cat is the ones that have "regular" ingredients. Unfortunately, it's too pricey for my 20 cats or so.

I read a lot about post-operative male cats but they don't go into details like post-operative female cats. But they did mentioned about the male cats only require very small incision which I think I don't need to put them in small cage like I did with my girls. I agree. doesn't hurt to be safe especially there's only gov vet clinic here & they only operating during office hour & no after hour on-call vet around. I think there should be no problem transferring him to bigger cage tomorrow. At least he will have more freedom to move around than the small cage.

Those are not ingredient of the RC Persian 30 that I used. No maize either. The ingredient you quoted is the "regular" RC I was referring to.

I have to disagree with rice is bad. It's not at all. Rice mixed with boiled fish (without bones) is what a lot of people feeds their cats, at least in the rural area. My late grandmother feeds her cats with this & her cats don't experienced any health issue. My cats also don't have health issue. The only health issue my cats have are eye infection & flu. There's a lot of cats in my area when I was a child & I don't recall any of the cats have health issue. Lots of them grow old. Nowadays with the too fast cars & people tend to use pesticide when they too lazy to mows their backyard, many cats over here die at young age. No exception for "musang" either.

I always use, by your definition "bad" food, for my cats though & all I see is healthy cats. I like to help stray cats whenever possible & whenever I can, which the main reason I have many cats.

Just sharing my experiences & my 2 cents.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Jun 15 2015, 04:17 PM

Oyen, my cat, fully awake since this evening. Recovery from general anesthesia much quicker than my girls though. Also he doesn't seems to lost his appetite unlike my girls which does loose appetite during the first 48 hours.

I have one concern though. When I read about preparing female cats before spaying, all articles I read mentioned do not withdraw water before surgery but when I researching for preparing male cats before neutering, some of the articles mentioned withdraw the water too. So basically this time I withdraw the water sometime around 9 to 10 p.m. (Food was withdrawn earlier than that, around 7.30 p.m.) Is there any reason why there's difference for pre-operative between female & male cats?

This post has been edited by kizwan: Jun 15 2015, 11:05 PM

All of the cats back then are outdoors though. I remember at least one female cat (our cat) live around 10 years. I don't remember how long other cats live though.

So far I have not notice any changes in water intake or urination with my cats. Not much variations in the amount of clumping litter I removed everyday. My cats live indoor but the oldest did live indoor & outdoor for a while before finally indoor again.

I'm pretty much in the same camp. What really work for my cats is rice mixed with boiled fish. The results are good bowel movements & no vomiting. Since I'm a "modern" cat owner, I always prefer more balanced nutrient pet food of course. Basically at the beginning I feed my cats kibbles in the morning & rice mixed with boiled fish in the evening. However when I started to stay with kibbles for both meals, my cats started having diarrhoea & vomiting. I changed the pet food a couple of times, because I'm pretty committed to balanced nutrient pet food, until I found one that worked for all of my cats. And it does contain rice in the ingredient.

As for wet/canned food, I can't find one that worked for all of my cats though. A couple of my cats will have diarrhoea when I feed wet food though. I have no idea why is that.

I never have fur problem with my cats. Of course if I didn't sweep or vacuum the floor for a week, there will be some clumping furs under the furniture and on the carpets.

In my opinion, pet food contain corn & rice & even by-product not necessarily bad. All "good" food is expensive to many people, especially that adopted many cats though.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Jun 16 2015, 09:41 AM

Oyen in bigger cage in the front hall. this cage purpose was to cage our cats when we have visitors. Not all of course, the rest will be locked in the bedroom. I think some of you have seen this cage but with different cats in it.



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Yeah, I'm too bet he can't wait to get out. Fortunately he is very calm cat, didn't make any noise when I put him in the cage. However I can't say the same thing when we're feeding him medicine earlier. First day always the hardest.

BTW, do you think it's good idea to break the tablets to small pieces & mixed with the wet food? If I can do this, I can use this trick for tomorrow. This cat really a fighter when come to medicine.

This post has been edited by kizwan: Jun 16 2015, 03:02 PM

^^ Definitely this. Please do research first & talk with people that already have cat. It's BIG responsibility. Every cat we adopted will become our family member & we don't throw away our own family member.

Ermmm...government veterinary clinic?

You need to ask them of course. Go to your district veterinary office. They have cats/dogs clinic there, so any checkup required can be done there. I don't know the procedure for pet export but I would think they're the one that have the authority to produce certificate to allow you for pet export.

Cheapest is at government vet clinic. Over here at Parit Buntar (Kerian), female is RM80 & male is RM40. I don't know how much they charge there but should be cheap.