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I met with my vet today. We are starting with Onsior and testing my kitties kidney values in 7 days to make sure the medication isn't causing kidney damage. In addition, my vet said I could consider laser surgery. The pros: It would give her a better quality of life. It would debulk the tumor...

Thank you so much White Shadow. I submitted a request to join the group. I greatly appreciate you giving us this information. Thank you!

Has anyone had experience with treating bladder cancer? My kitty was diagnosed this week. She is 18 and has kidney disease which limits our treatment options. I've already done acupuncture for her which didn't help her arthritis and obviously didn't help prevent the cancer. She gets fluids 3...

Thank you Denice. I'm hoping someone here can give me advice or tell me their experience.

I've been struggling with my decisions and wanted to find out if anyone has experience with aggressive lymphoma that involves an enlarged spleen in diabetic cats? If so, what treatment did you do and what was the outcome? My cat turned 16 last month and we were concerned he might have lymphoma...

My vet brought up a very good point about why declawing shouldn't be outlawed: she has clients with illnesses in which a cat scratch could be potentially fatal like transplant patients, HIV, hemophilia etc. She said she would much rather declaw the cat and keep it in the home than to ban...

My cats were declawed by their previous human in the front. Carma has permanent damage to her tendons which has now resulted in arthritis. You can visibly see it - her legs are crooked near her paws. This how now turned into arthritis as she has aged. There are caps to put on cat claws that you...

Thank you so much Sally for all your support. We don't know each other, but you have helped me a great deal as I try to deal with this. It is greatly appreciated! Gus is doing better since being on the Wellactin supplement. He is more mobile - jumping into his window seat - and more social -...

I use budesonide for my kitty. I actually found giving him 1/3 of the dose worked for a while. I'm now giving him about half the regular dose per day. I told my vet I was pour some of the capsule into a tiny bit of water and syringe it into his mouth (very careful not to choke him). I cannot use...

I'm pretty certain they do the gravity test every time they do urine labs. She told me there was very little sugar in his urine and that his diabetes was well controlled. She also said that his urine was pretty diluted because he drinks a lot of water and I add water to his food. I've spoken...

Sweet photo of a beautiful kitty. I wish you all luck. We are in a similar boat, but a biopsy isn't an option due to Gus's age and his multitude of health problems. He isn't even a candidate for treatment if he does have cancer. I hope your dear Simon doesn't have lymphoma - but if he does, the...

And Sally - I'm sorry about your CRF kitty Sven. It is gut wrenching going through this as you know. Making "that decision" is what I've been dreading. I want to have clear answers. It sounds like you had that with Sven and you knew when nothing else could be done. It isn't any easier, but at...

Thank you so much for your response Sally. Years ago Gus got sick and the vet I was going to at the time was stumped so she gave him a shot of antibiotics and he got better - but his numbers were all normal at the time - he was acting off and not eating normally. I told my current vet and she...

Gus has been losing weight for the past 10 months and just not himself. I dreaded that it might be cancer. His white blood cells have continued to drop since last spring. At one time they were in the 5000 range and he is now at 1800. His creatinine levels went from 2.7 to the mid 4 range and...