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My female and male cats get along and are healthy, but when male goes up to play with female, she hisses and growls
Let them work it out. "I'm not in the mood to wrestle" is a legitimate response. They'll figure out their own ways of interacting.
(I presume they're both neutered, or there may be subtexts.....
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Kittens ate entire bag of treats! Please help
Like a kid getting into the cookies, this isn't ideal but won't do much if any harm.
In fact, some treats are nutritionally complete enough that a cat could live on them; they're just too expensive ...
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Is it normal for a feral cat to let me pet him/her?
It depends on the feral's previous experience with humanity and their own personality. Some encounter a friendly human early on and decide we're mostly harmless. Some get chased and decide we're ...
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Cat eating sweet things
A friend's cat liked bread but not the crusts and once hollowed our a good portion of an unattended loaf. My current cat likes graham crackers, when she can steal them from me. Another cat I've known ...
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Cat eating sweet things
I'd like to believe it's a behavioral thing, as the answer suggests, however I eat a lot of things in front of my 13 cats, and one in particular goes especially bananas for fortune cookies, ...
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Balcony time causing tension
Another solution might be to build a fenced enclosure which rests on the deck, a feline playpen or "catio". That avoids the rule about not attaching netting to the deck itself, though the ...
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Why does my cat dig at mirrors and glass?
This might also simply be a fascination with very featureless slippery surfaces.
One of our cats does this as well, and for him it hasn't anything to do with his reflection, he'll do it with plastic ...
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What flooring material is best for cleaning off cat pee?
There's specific enzymatic sprays that react with, and remove the smell of pee, so in theory they're less likely to pee there. If there's pee smell, they will pee. Tiles are better since the pee won't ...
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Balcony time causing tension
Assuming non-destructive approaches to attach netting are out of the question, here are some possible ideas to ease the tension.
Make balcony breaks a dependable routine:
Cats like routine and a clear ...
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