Recent Content by dast

A lot of good comments. It sounds very similar to IBD, which is hard to diagnose without invasive surgery. Usually your vet can just go off the symptoms. With my cat, the IBD goes hand-in-hand with pancreatitis and the pancreatitis will cause vomiting (clear) and additional pain and discomfort...

Anyone experience treating a cat with feline hyperesthesia?  My cat has been unofficially diagnosed with IBD. After a solid six months of changing his diet and treatment, we have been able to control the IBD and resulting pancreatitis through diet. The only thing that did the trick was Hills D/D...

Thanks to everyone for all of the help offered. Things got very scary for a while. We tried several gran free foods with limited ingrediants and novel proteins to no avail. Also, he would not touch raw. During the food trials, his pancreatitis flared up to the point he was prescribed pain...

Last night I gave him Blue wilderness, duck flavored. I'm going to be making my rounds at the pet store to check out foods this afternoon. Is it worth the stress of taking him to another vet for a second opinion? If it were me, I would get a second opinion for myself. But, the vet visits...

Yes, he acts very hungry, but then will not eat the Rx food. I tried a grain free, duck wet food last night. He gobbled it down like he had not eaten in days. I'm waiting to see if it aggravates his situation.

Thank you!

My cat has been suffering from diarrhea for about 1.5 months now. It came on quickly. He has had no health problems up to this point, and it is estimated that he is around 9 years old.  He is an indoor cat, but in the past we would let him out on occasion and he would eat the grass in the...