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Thanks, guys! Much appreciated. She'll find out the kind of insulin tomorrow morning. She just got the vet results yesterday by phone. Right now, she feeds him Nutro Natural Choice indoor adult dry food, though I believe she free feeds him. Prior to this illness, he was perhaps 25+ pounds...

Hello!  I think it's been about a year since I've been here - my cats are doing well, happy and in good health.  But my sister's cat has just been diagnosed with diabetes.  He's 9, an underweight at 14 pounds giant Maine Coon mix. The issue is that he has a tender stomach and can't digest wet...

We can't diagnose her over the internet - it sounds like a severe URI to me; another person might tell you it sounds like a broken rib or punctured lung. Someone else might think it sounds like something I haven't even thought of. All of us are going to tell you that she has to go to the vet...

When something like this happened with my cat, it was because he had a severe upper respiratory infection. He wasn't out as long as yours - he was fine in the morning, went out before I went to work, and when I came home, he was hiding under a car in front of my house. When he got into the...

Thanks for telling me what happened with Ritz. Friday, she used the litterbox after 26 hours, and today after 18, so we're headed in the right direction anyway. She's not using the Kitten Attract box, but having it out seems to remind her about using her other litter boxes more often -...

This made me think of a journal entry from ages ago, about my now-deceased cat who then still thought he was a kitten, and still got to make regular trips outside. I dug it up to share:

Before I start: I've called the vet! I'm waiting for a call back now. Since she's just gone to the bathroom, I've downgraded this to "very concerning" from "impending emergency". I'm hoping some of you here have experience with cats holding their urine longer while on Prozac/Fluoxetine. I...

I am so sorry. My loss is coming up on a year and a half now, but so much of what you say still resonates with me so strongly. I feel like you want to talk, just talk about Rizzo, small things and big things and normal things and crazy things. I did, when Puck passed, but I felt that even my...

I'd recommend feeding them separately. If you feel Kitty isn't getting enough, perhaps you could give her smaller portions more frequently, since she gets bored after half the can? The other thought is that Elsa's still growing and was probably underfed before she came to you. She may need...

Have things calmed down at all? I'm assuming you're in a camper and don't really have the option of putting one cat into another room for a little bit. Though, is the bathroom safe? Do you have a separate car with you that one of you can take one of the cats to? Do you have carriers for them...

This could be nothing at all, just your cat being a cat. However, it sounds like it might be the beginning stages of Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome, too. http://www.vet.cornell.edu/FHC/health_resources/HyperesthesiaSyndrome.cfm There are several members here with experience with this syndrome...

Oh, Cataan. I am so so sorry. I am so sorry that you lost Back, and I am so sorry that you're feeling such guilt about this. How tragic and awful. Please, please stop punishing yourself for this. I'm going to take your word for it that Back's heart attack was from fear of the carrier, and I...

As someone whose kitten was frankly paralyzed by fear and anxiety, I really strongly recommend you try Prozac. The turnaround I've seen has been amazing. The pills are inexpensive in the US - $4 for 30, which will last about 5 months for my cat and anywhere from 2-8 months in general. It...

Oh, gosh, I set up a litter box downstairs on Puck's second to last night. He stepped in it but never used it, and I couldn't bear to throw it away afterwards. His paw prints in it, it was just impossible. I covered it with a towel and set it in a closet in a spare room, and it's been almost...

The winter before Puck died, I saw Life of Pi in the theatre. What a beautiful, inspiring movie. Puck was 18 and 3 years into his kidney disease. He had been a huge, muscular cat, high hips and a predator's low prowl, nearly 16 pounds, and so powerful and fierce. He's a jungle cat, my family...