Recent Content by sara hanson

PICA for ingesting hair?  I may not be able to insure the cat that ate the ear plug, but maybe the one with the hairballs?

Looking at pet insurance... would this be considered a pre-existing condition?  I feel like no one else has experienced consistent hairball blockages...

It was a hairball again.  I mentioned IBD, but the doctor didn't think it was that since it was behaving more like an obstruction, and it was.  He seemed to think that IBD didn't cause obstructions to occur, and the intestines would be inflamed from the obstruction anyway, so a biopsy would show...

How did he get through his flare ups? I really can't afford/don't want to do surgery again, and am trying to grasp at anything to give me hope she can recover with surgery.  How do you maintain him now?

So, since January (start of shedding season) i have been administering hairball meds3-4x a week, then in the last month every day, and brushing both cats daily with a furminator.  The other cat recovered from her surgery well in about 7 days.  A week later, the other cat couldn't keep water...

She ate an ear plug.  The industrial kind that have the cord attached and you stuff them in your ears and they expand.  I didn't even know we had them in our house, since we use them at work only.  I just still can't comprehend how both of my cats needed this surgery almost exactly a year apart...

Yes i free feed dry food.  As of right now, we don't know if this one is a hairball blockage.  How is the slippery elm given?  One of my cats refuses to eat if i put anything in their food, i have to shove the hairball treatment down her throat as it is.  Would having some sort of green...

Hi, So i'm currently going through my second intestinal obstruction with my 2nd cat (previous blockage was with sister cat, and was hairball, 1 year separating incidents).  I'm awaiting ultrasound currently, but it's likely this one ate something since there was tape from a cardboard box in one...