My cat is 4 years old. He is sterilized. Likes dry food but never drinks water. What to do - give to drink forcedly or not to give a dry food?
N.V.Kolokolnikova, Tambov
If you are really sure your cat drinks very little (some animals nearly don't drink from the cum and prefer fresh water right from a tap), we recommend you to switch your pet to fast canned food.
I have Persian cats - one male and two females. Recently I began to notice clots of blood in faeces of a male cat. Nevertheless he feels himself well. I feed him usually with dry and canned food well as beef and milk products. Is it a hemorrhoids or something else?
Elena P., Novocherkassk
If your cat is fed with complete food, we recommend you in no circumstances to add neither beef nor milk products. If an exclusion of them will not help, you should take your cat to a veterinary. Both cats and dogs, unlike humans, never suffer hemorrhoids.
Translated by Tatiana Karpova (Moscow)
(MSU, Biology faculture, Dep. zoology and ecology).