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Thank you  everyone for your good wishes! She seems to be back to normal being her crazy kitten-like 7-year-old self! She even reacts to whispers so we know she can hear again! This is the best Christmas present ever! Hope you and your beautiful kitties all have a wonderful Christmas and much...

OK everyone, I have some good news to report. Last month I talked about how our cat Yoda went deaf after getting her teeth cleaned and ears flushed. Well now she hears again! We are still not sure how much of her hearing has returned but she responds to our voices and noises from the TV etc. She...

Sarah Ann, I am so sorry about your cat and your dog also.  I will certainly keep you all in my thoughts and prayers and I really hope this can be treated with steroids. In the event that it is cancer, then you need to talk over options with your vet. It really depends on the type of cancer. It...

OK, I am from the UK. It used to be that any pet coming into the UK had to go into quarantine for 6 months. However, that might have changed - here is a link to an article from 2011 http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103039,00.html This was because we don't have rabies in the...

I don't think any kind of declawing is humane. Cats have claws and we should love them claws and all. I mean, you wouldn't cut the ends of your baby's fingers off would you? That is basically what declawing is - an amputation. I understand that they basically cut the ligaments to the end of the...

I am hoping so mrsgreenjeens! What a great idea you had with the treat and laser pointer! I had a talk with our vet this morning. He had never had a patient react like this but as I mentioned to him, whilst it is not very common, it isn't unheard of and there's always a first time. He did...

OK everyone. I really don't think she is brain damaged. I got on the internet yesterday and found that her eye problem is called Horner's Syndrome and is not uncommon in dogs or cats when they have had their ears flushed - which Yoda did.  However, she is deaf and that could have been caused by...

Hello mrsgreenjeens, Thank you for your kindness.  The emergency vet told us that she had possibly had "a neurological event" under the anasthesia. So that makes me think of brain damage. However, she also had her ears flushed by our regular vet and when we took her to the emergency vet he...

Thank you ChloeKitty98.  I am trying to look on the more positive side. It could have been worse - we could have lost her and we didn't. We still have her warm furry little body to love!

Thank you cccdlx.  I will be sure to keep you all up to date. We are both very worried about her. She was such a playful little cat before all this happened and now she seems depressed and sad. Luckily I am on a long break from work over Thanksgiving so I will be able to spend lots of time with...

Thank you CatPack. I am sorry about your two babies too. :-( We try to do the best we can for them but sometimes it doesn't work or things go wrong. I didn't know that hearing loss could happen with teeth cleaning and anasthesia, so thank you for that. I would love for her hearing to come back...

I don't know if anyone can help but here goes. Last week we took our two 7 year old cats for their yearly shots/exams. Our girl-cat Yoda needed her teeth cleaned so I arranged to drop her off the next day. They said she was doing OK and I picked her up late that afternoon. Well she never really...

My advice would be to pop him into the vets. He may not be able to do much for Taffy or he might be able to diagnose it.  Just knowing either way will put your mind at rest. Do you have any pet steps that he can use to get up and down from the bed/sofa without having to jump? We have a very high...

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My girl cat Yoda doesn't pee outside the box but she doesn't squat - she stands and pees all up the sides of the box. I managed to find a covered box with really high sides and I haven't had any problems. Now, just in case she pees at the front of the box and gets pee outside the entrance -...