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I read on PetCareRx that feline diabetes, urinary tract infection, or a scarred bladder can be the primary reason why your cat is pooping outside the litter box. It can also be due to kidney stones or simply old age. It is a good idea to consult with a vet if you are concerned about this.

A bachelor for life?

In the Grooming Salon, you have to be 16 to become a bather and 18 to become a groomer. As far as the rest of the store, I am unsure. It probly depends on the state you are in. In AZ it's 17 for any positions in the store. Not too sure about grooming and the hotel.

If the kitten has already weaned off milk, they can eat soft baby food like products, although be sure none of these have onion or garlic in them. They do best with things like plain chicken. Do not feed them vegetables or products containing vegetables, or cow's milk. If they still need milk, talk to a veterinarian about buying bottles of cat milk formula.

Please note that human foods (unless you wish to feed your kitten a raw diet - which requires a lot of research) should never be substituted for a complete and balanced cat food.

Twice a day.

You will need to bottle feed an orphaned kitten. Cimicat substitute milk or baby milk formula can be used successfully. You will need to feed the kitten every two hours. You will also need to stimulate the kitten after feeding, to enable it to pass waste matter. You do this by gently rubbing a cotton wool ball around it's belly area until the kittens produces waste matter.

We trained our cat by carrying it towards the litterbox and making its paws scrape up and down the litter.

Mom cats often adopt another cat's litter, especially if the mom recently gave birth. For young kittens, that's okay BUT mom will need more food with protein (e.g. a good dry and wet food). However, 12-week old kittens should NOT be nursing. Separate the older kittens from their "adopted" mom and get them onto dry food.

This is a very difficult problem, and the answer depends on how determined that cat is. For example, a cat that lives in an apartment around which there is only a small patch of garden nearby to act as a litter box, that cat will be very determined to poop in it. Some things you can try are: # place chicken wire on any bare soil so the cat can't scratch it up. # place chicken wire or bird netting over the tops of all the plants, draping it down to the ground in a single flower bed. # spray citrus oil on the area where the cat has been pooping. # scatter citris peels around the area. # place a motion-activated sprinkler in the garden. # keep a squirt bottle handy and squirt the cat any time you see it in the garden. # make sure the cat has a clean litterbox available in a quiet spot that isn't near any other strong smells. Stop faffing around get a Jack Russel terrier.

Yes, you can trim your outdoor cat's claws. Even when they are trimmed, they are still very sharp. Definitely sharp enough for climbing and self-defense.

Yes, some will, some won't.

Do NOT use anti-bacterial dishwashing liquid, it will kill the microbes that benefit growing.

Anywhere from 1 to 10 kittens - though the average is 5 to 7

famine

A kitten so small needs to be fed little and often; around five to six times a day or whenever they are hungry. Be sure to feed small amounts. Too much food at once will cause them to be sick.

The phylum is chlorophyta also known as green algae.

Yes. Eight weeks is the youngest age a kitten can be neutered/spayed. Most people wait until the cat is around 6 months old -- and personally, I did not have my young female cat spayed until she was 9 months old -- but if they want to do it now, then that's their business.

You should be glad, actually: having a cat spayed at a regular veterinary clinic can cost nearly a thousand dollars per cat!

Vet costs vary over different parts of the country, and between rural areas and cities. There can be significant variations in prices for local vets as well. Better call some local vets and shop their prices. Cat owners in your area can be a good source of information too. It all depends on where you live and which vet you choose. Also, if your cat is rare or exotic, you may have to pay more.

At home, nothing - cats are extremely sensitive to human pain medications (aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, Aleve, paracetamal, ibuprofen, Motrin, Pamprin, etc) and even a single pill can cause fatal stomach ulcers.

If your cat has a broken paw, the best option is to take your cat to a veterinarian to have it examined. Your veterinarian can prescribe appropriate pain medication such as butorphenol, which is a schedule III controlled drug, to mediate the pain until the area heals.

Depends on if they are separated and for how long.

A cat's teeth are designed to to hold down, kill and eat prey. The canines are very long in cats because these teeth help the cat hold on to its prey. They can also be use to kill the prey. Human canines are very blunt and are used to help tear meat.

Cats and humans both have premolars and molars, but a cat's back teeth are sharp and serrated and act like scissors; cutting up meat into bite-size chunks in order for the cat to swallow. A cat's jaw only moves up and down, so a cat cannot chew its food.

Human premolars and molars are grinding teeth, much like a herbivore. They are flat and our jaws can move side to side which aid in chewing our food thoroughly before swallowing.

The incisors in a human are the same size as all our other teeth and are primarily used for cutting food into bite-size chunks so we can chew it. A cat's incisors are very very small, and are mostly used for grooming.