14 simple things to help your cats use the litter box comfortably

Going with the grain! Written by Dr. Laxmi Iyer

1. Keep the litter box clean. That means the litter box should be emptied at least once every day and cleaned every week.

2. Use soap and water to clean the litter box. Don't use ammonia. Cats find ammonia very irritating.

3. Choose a secluded spot in the house to place the litter boxes.

4. Always have one or two more litter boxes than the number of cats in the house. 

5. Avoid using cat litter which uses untreated pine and wood shavings.
  They can cause a lot of respiratory irritation and even cancer. Check out what the following websites have to say about this
  www.earthlyenterprises.co.uk  
  http://www.ratfanclub.org/litters.html
  http://www.rabbit.org/journal/1/liver-disease.html 

6. Avoid the flushable toilet kind of cat litter. That doesn't make evolutionary sense because cats are simply not used to sitting on a toilet seat. It's a tough act for cats to follow even if they are trained for it. 

7. Try to avoid the hooded litter box because that might make her feel a little uncomfortable. However, it's your cat's preference that you need to check out. Some cats may actually prefer that kind of litter box.

8. Don't declaw your cats. Do check out the Stanford Cat Network's views on what kind of litter material would suit your cats. In nature, cats have always preferred a sandy textured material. 

9. Make sure that you have lots of interesting toys for your cats to play with. 

10. Make sure that your cat's food place is no where near the litter space.

11.Make sure that your cats are getting all their regular intakes of vitamins and minerals. A mineral imbalance or deficiency leads to a condition called pica. You need to watch out for that. A cat with pica will eat a lot of non food material.  

12.Some breeds like Persians are genetically predisposed to woolsucking and pica. Remember that and watch your cats carefully.

13. You must also remember that kittens are curious and playful by nature and will experiment with every new thing by eating some of it. So, you need to take care when you are training your kittens to use the litter box. 

14.Get regular veterinary check ups done - at least every 6 months for allthe cats in your family.

4 Easy Ways to Prevent Your Cat From Growing Crystals in the Urine

Written by Dr.Laxmi Iyer  
Crystals! From a feline perspective it's a nightmare word. 

Stones in the urinary tract - either the kidney, bladder or urethra can be a painful condition - that can be the reason for emergency surgery. The trick is to play with them - even if your cat is a religious carpet and lounge napper. Get them out to breathe some fresh air...Lift them if they won't budge. 

Coax them into the garden. Make them play...Make them work a little to get their food. 
That means if it's chow time, you could place their bowl in a slightly remote place where they would need to climb up and down staircases or walk through serpentine corridors. The dogs had their own role to play in making sure that the cats got their fair share of exercise.

Watch out for the magnesium levels
Magnesium when present in excess in the diet can cause the formation of magnesium-ammonium-phosphate calculi formation.

Examine the food
Whether you feed your cat canned food or dry food the important thing to take care of is to watch out - for how much of the stuff your cat is eating and whether in trying to maintain his or her caloric requirements, more of the magnesium isn't being consumed as well. When you feed your cat commercial cat food check the label to ensure that the magnesium content is less than 20 mg / 100kcal.

If the caloric value of the food your cat consumes is low then in order to meet the calorie needs, you cat will eat more of the stuff....and that in turn will lead to more magnesium intake....propelling the beginnings of a urolith to get formed somewhere in the urinary tract. The truth is that 90% of all the calculi or stones found in the urinary system of cats belong to a single group. Nine out of every ten uroliths detected are magnesium-ammonium-phosphate (struvite) crystals.

About 0.5-3% of the uroliths seen in cats are oxalate and urate while 3-5% are gelatinous plugs. These gelatinous plugs which have significant amounts of struvite occur in the urethra and most often near the urethral orifice. Besides your cat's genetic predisposition there are 4 common sense things you can do to prevent those crystals from condensing in your cat's urinary system. The best way to prevent the crystals from happening is to take care of WEM - an easy acronym for Water, Exercise and Magnesium.

Make sure that your cat drinks enough water
Water! The cool drink that can erase more than a hundred ailments can sure help your cat too! It's all the little drops that count. Make sure that your cats are well hydrated. A lack of water can be detrimental to your cat's health.

Remember the E word
Now, your cats are not natural aquaphiles. If your cat is not naturally fond of water – you need to tastefully inculcate the taste for nature’s brew. So, the best way to get them to the watering ground is to create the thirst. They need to be thirsty enough to down the aqua...and the reasoning that goes with it is that they will get thirsty when they have had their daily bout of good, wholesome exercise.

How to Raise Siamese Cats and Kittens

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To celebrate the launch of the second edition of "I am Siamese" we are offering it for a limited time only at the special price of $12.77 (recommended retail $27.77). This offer must end soon! 

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Cat Urine Remedy

"STOP PULLING YOUR HAIR OUT OVER WHY YOUR CAT IS URINATING EVERYWHERE IN YOUR HOME!" LEARN HOW A PET SERVICE BUSINESS OWNER KEEPS HER HOME CLEAN WITH A SIMPLE MANUAL AND HOW YOU CAN TOO... 

Are you frustrated by your cat urinating where it shouldn't in your home? Tired of always having to clean up after your pet? Have you ever had the embarrassment of house guests who don’t say anything, but one look on their face and you know they smell what your cat did on the living room carpet. Sometimes cat owners aren’t even aware that their house smells of cat urine. But everyone else does! 

You love your cat, but is the smell and damage from the urine costing you time, money, and headaches? If you’re like me, you’ve tried a lot of different products and followed numerous tips on correcting your cat’s problem. But nothing seemed to work.

I’ve owned multiple cats at one time and can tell you that getting rid of cat urine is a difficult job. Cats have a protein rich diet, which makes their urine smell worse than dogs, and more likely to penetrate and cause stains. Some of the things that determine how strong your cat’s urine will be in terms of staining ability on surfaces such as carpet are: Diet, Age, Sex, Health, and if any Medication is being taken. 

Does YOUR home smell like a litter box? 
It’s a hassle to keep cleaning that same spot your cat is always urinating on. That could be more quality time that you spend with your spouse, children, or your beloved cat. It frustrates me that cat owners can’t find a solution to their problem. When they do find something it doesn’t always work as advertised. Or worse yet, it just temporarily hides the problem. 

There are many products in stores and on the internet that claim to get rid of pet urine and pet odors. But do they actually work as advertised?

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Dear Cat Caretaker, It's hard to believe, but it's true: Commercial cat food has actually been linked to the deaths of thousands of cats across the United States.

Most veterinarians, cat care experts, and authors will tell you that if your cat eats certain types of commercial cat food on a regular basis he or she can end up having a much greater risk of dying a premature death related to illnesses such as: Cancer-Kidney failure-Severe allergies-Chronic diarrhea-Urinary tract disease-Diabetes-Obesity-And more

And often by the time you begin to notice the symptoms, it is far too late to prevent the problem. "Do you know what is in meat meal, the major constituent of dry cat and dog food?... Urine, fecal matter, hair, toxic chemicals, pus, and tainted meat from animals afflicted with cancer, Tuberculosis., etc."--Wendell O. Belfield, DVM

It's important that you start making some very drastic changes immediately in the way you feed your cat or you may end up making them severely ill or terminally diseased. But don't panic. No matter how old your cat may be, it is not too late to start caring for them properly to ensure their health and happiness.

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