Recent Content by coolguy1200

I'm very happy to report that he's not got cancer! He went to the vet today. We saw the other vet at the practice. Off the bat, she seemed much less fazed by the weight loss and much less fazed by the bump. She felt it and decided to do an ultrasound instead of the x-ray because she thought that...

It's incredible how much tonally nicer this forum is than, say, all of the rest of the internet. Thank you so much for your words! As was the case before, you're absolutely right.

So, my thus-far update: We weren't able to reschedule and move up the appointment date, he's going in this Friday morning. I think I found the mass -- I can feel it in the space between his ribs nearer his right side. It sort of protrudes -- I can easily get my fingers under it and it does move...

To be honest, with the relative dearth of information I have on hand, things have gotten really repetitive really quickly. I think if he weren't this young, I would be less taken aback by it -- in some ways, though, that's helped as all of the information on hand suggests that this is more an...

Yep, that is 100%, absolutely what's happening to a T. I appreciate you saying this -- this sense of perspective is exactly what I'm looking for at the moment.

Thanks for the advice -- I'll definitely keep that in mind when I'm feeling him. I've not felt anything hard, so that might be positive. I don't get the sense that the vet's doing something odd, it's more that there's an element of me trying to get a handle on whether he's being cautious or...

Hi all, I took my four-year-old cat to the vet yesterday for a routine round of shots and I'm freaked out. The last time he visited (8 months ago), our vet recommended that he go on a diet. He was about 16 pounds at the time -- he's got a bit of a big frame to begin with, but we wanted him to be...