by The Paws and Effect Gang | Mar 4, 2018 | Cat Health
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: We have a boy kitty, Coby. He is 11 years old and just the most cuddly, loving little man we’ve ever known. We adopted him from a rescue group when he was 2 1/2 months old. From the very beginning he seemed to vomit... by The Paws and Effect Gang | Feb 26, 2017 | Cat Health
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I have a 17-year-old neutered male cat. He’s been losing weight as he gets older. Recently, he’s been looking unkempt and is wet when I touch him. Despite regular brushing, his hair is matting. He smells awful.... 
by The Paws and Effect Gang | Nov 27, 2016 | Cat Health
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: A little over a year ago, I adopted a 3-month-old black kitten, As she grew, she started to have more and more health problems. Gluten intolerance, severe allergies to most plants and insects, and a recurring skin... 
by The Paws and Effect Gang | Nov 6, 2016 | Cat Behavior, Cat Health
Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: My cat, Possum, is 19. He’s always been very skittish. For the first 18 or so years of his life he kept in dark spaces and only came out to eat or drink at night and slept in my bed. In the past two or three years he... 
by JaneA Kelley | May 25, 2016 | Cat Health, Sponsored
Did you know that one in three cats develop kidney disease over the course of their lives? Not only that, but more than half of cats age 15 and older have some degree of kidney dysfunction. My lovely Siouxsie certainly had kidney disease in the last few years of her...
JaneA Kelley is a punk rock cat mom and award-winning blogger. She is a regular columnist for Catster Magazine, and she and the Paws and Effect Gang share a home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.