Recent Content by faithie

I would appreciate some advice... I have a 17 year old female cat, I took her to the vet a week ago because I had noticed a change in her mood and activity.  Little things such as she used to wake me up for her breakfast at 6am, she would meet me from the door.  She has stopped all of that and...

I have a 16 year old female cat.  She had tests done 3 months ago, she was knocked out (almost literally as she is an absolute nightmare at the vet), she had xrays and full bloods, all came back as normal except for a mass in her mouth that has been there for 2 years now and not really grown...

My 16 year old girl is going in for xrays tomorrow as steroids and metacam have stopped working for what the vet believed to be arthritis, the vet wants to see if it is anything more sinister before putting her onto tramadol for pain management. My question / worry being, will tramadol make her...

That's great, thanks for your advice :-)

My cat is going in to be anaesthetised and have xrays tomorrow, the vet has said not to feed her for 18 hours before, my poor girl will be soooo hungry as if she is not home until tomorrow afternoon then she will not have eaten for over 24 hours, is there a bit of leverage there?

Is there any reason my old moggie would start stinking, I can't have her next to me she smells awful! She smelt once or twice around 2 months ago, I thought it was because she wasn't grooming because of her arthritis so I would brush her and it went within hours, she's grooming herself now as...

Yes she suggested kidney disease. There's no change in my old girl, she's still sleeping 23 hours of the day. Any ideas on what tests I should insist on? The vet suggested euthanasia but I dont want to do that until I know why, I don't want to have any regrets. Are there any that will give a...

Here's her report:

I've got a copy of her records but it's not allowing me to add an attachment so I've managed to copy and paste it below, I have any advice would be great!  Does anyone know what scoliosis of the spine is, should I or a vet have noticed it sooner or an it develop with old age - is she in a lot of...

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. I will contact my vet and ask for a copy amd then post them. Thanks again :-)

I'm in the UK.

Thanks for your reply :-) I didn't realise there were so many readings until I came home but she did mention that the protein in her last meal could have caused it to elevate?  She hadn't eaten in 12 hours though so I wouldn't have thought that but Is there a protein reading?  She definitely...

I took my 16 year old cat to the vet today and she said her kidney level was 12 when it should be 10, I thought I would come home and google it but can't see anything about a level 12 so I'm confused.   I understand this is not a vet site but wondered if anyone had any knowledge? Thanks for any...