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I have never had a cat with dry FIP but I have had 2 with wet FIP. I hate FIP with a passion! I can't really give you much advice on what to do, but I do know there are other tests that can be run. I really love the Facebook group "FIP Fighters"- so much wonderful information, and some vets and...

Sunday evening Ember was doing SUPER good! She had her feeding tube put in about 6am Monday morning and I picked her up a few hours later. The feeding tube scares the heck out of me but I'm learning! We have been to the emergency vet the last 2 nights since she got it put in due to my own over...

So a lot has happened in the last few days! She was at the emergency vet Thursday night, xrays were taken but they were not conclusive. The regurgitation was getting worse and she was losing weight. Friday we were back at the emergency vet. She was so freaking hungry, she was jumping on my...

2 weeks ago I was driving down the road on a terribly rainy morning and a small black kitten was staggering across in front of me. I stopped and grabbed her and took her to work with me. She was freezing, soaking wet, gums were white, emaciated- skin and bones. I got her heated up, her blood...

Sometimes it is hard to detect things like coccidia and giardia in a stool sample because the cat has to be activly shedding it at that moment for it to show up. I would have their fecal test done again. No way this is "worms" after all that deworming. Giardia is treated with Panacur which is...

Have you tried taking him off food with grain and chicken? Of all the cats that have been through the rescue I work with that have allergies, it is almost always 1 or both of those things. We had one recently that had lost most of his hair and was peeing blood. Chicken & grain allergy. He came...

This may or may not be an unpopular opinion, but I usually let ringworm run its course and only treat an animal if they are showing really bad symptoms. One of my fosters picked up ringworm at an adoption event back months ago. I know that's where it happened because another foster had he...

I highly doubt they were related... is your cat spayed? If not, then that may have been an intact male outside and your female may be in heat? I trapped 4 kittens and their mother at my previous townhouse complex a few years ago. The kittens were about 8-ish weeks so we were able to socialize...

You don't mention a vet visit... he needs to go ASAP!! Especially with older cats, stress can cause all sorts of problems. My brothers cat gets urinary tract infections and pees blood whenever my brother has to go away for work. Moving entire households- TWICE- is a lot for a 12 year old cat...

I really hate World's Best. I have tried it 3 times and each time I end up with a swarm of fruit flies around my litter boxes. I NEVER have that issue except for with WB. Even if it was free you couldn't get me to bring it in my house.

So I have fostered a ton of kittens over the last few years but this is a first for me. These guys are huge- and I know near nothing about any breeds besides your average domestics. These 3 (2 tabbys are boys, the mostly white/tabby one is a girl) are almost 14 weeks old. I pulled them from the...