Recent Content by mandy11320

Our cat has had a feeding tube for a couple of weeks now. We have been bandaging it with the typical gauze/cotton wrap and self-adhesive bandage wrap. The issue is that our cat keeps scratching it, making it loose and twisting it, and she's constantly pulling the tube along with it.  She has...

She is up to her full feeding amount (60 mLs 4x a day). And we are feeding her Hills A/D. She had her first check up on Friday and the vet gave her some appetite stimulant, so every day she has been eating some food on her own, so we give her just a little bit less through the tube depending on...

Yes, we had NO IDEA and wish we did. We still can't believe that something so dangerous isn't more well known! We definitely won't ever have them in our house again, nor will we buy them for anyone. We have had a terrible few weeks and had to drive her 6 hours to LSU just so she could get the...

Thanks, StephenQ! She actually is anemic. We are taking her in once a week for the next month for an injection to help her red blood cell counts rise. I hadn't thought about the fact that it's likely contributing to her sleepiness afterwards. After a few hours of deep sleep she is up and about...

Our cat Tay has been fighting a long battle after eating some lilies. She is finally back home after a couple of weeks in the ICU, and we've been feeding her through a tube for about a week now. She's slowly getting some appetite back, but not enough to stop the tube feeding. After each...