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Thank you for your responses. Mollie is much brighter today and we have found her secret pee place. I have to talk to vet in any case tomorrow to find out biopsy result and to see what the spcialist oncologists say. Meanwhile Mollie is enjoying being spoilt.

My cat Mollie, 10, had a black crust on her nose and the vet operated a week ago to remove it. He sent a sample away for a biopsy but felt sure it was cancer He warned me that he had been unable to remove it all and it would return in weeks or months. Mollie has been subdued since coming home...

Daisy6, I was talking about the impact of me struggling to get Mimi into a cage to transport her, not about her being in a cage at the vet. As I said, she's a very old cat, at least 18, and accustomed to her routine of living on the street. Getting her to the vet is the first problem. IF it is...

Hello, thank you for responding. The problem is that this is a very feisty cat who forms part of a group of abandoned village cats that a team of us feed twice daily. She is the doyenne, at least 18 years old and when I tried to catch her yesterday she managed to bite through my thick...

Conjunctivitis is also called pink eye but the cat I'm concerned about has a grey film across one eye so that you can hardly see the eye beneath. Can conjunctivitis also take this form?

Thank you for responding. Sorry, I forgot to say we went back to the vet yesterday which is what prompted my post. The vet didn't have any other suggestions and he had trouble examining Molly because she was so stressed out that her body was rigid. I really hate taking her to the vet because it...

Molly is about 9 and a half. I took her to the vet last November and the vet suggested perhaps arthritis and prescribed anti-inflammatory treatment and omega 3 tabs. I've continued with the omega 3 but there's been no change. It's hard to describe but sometimes out of the blue her front leg...

Yesterday I was at my wits' end after a fight broke out between Leo and Charlie and I felt my only option was to look for a new loving home for newcomer Charlie (not easy in rural France where there are so many unwanted cats). But I've grown to really love cheeky Charlie and last night he...

They are both castrated as I wrote in my message. I did do scent swapping for more than a month as part of following the instructions for introductions.

In spite of following advice for introducing new cats, things are not going well and today was really upsetting. Resident cat Leo and new cat Charlie (not so new now as he's been with us over 2 months but kept separate) have had a fight and both have bite wounds and scratches. It makes me so...

Thank you for replying. In fact, once I collected the test result from the vet's - up until then it was just a phone call - I saw that the lab test wasn't an IFA but a different type of screening test. So, the first was the Witness test carried out by the vet, and the second was the Snap test...

Thank you for responding. I am in France and humane societies are unheard of. I have no intention of doing anything other than give Charlie the best life he can have, whether he turns out FELV+ or - . I just don't want to put my other cats at risk and Charlie's life would be a lot richer if...

Just to add that it's no use asking my vet's advice as she seems to know less about FELV than I do. Very disappointing.

30 days ago Charlie had a faint positive result on the vet's in-house ELISA test and on Tuesday the vet took some more blood while Charlie was being castrated and sent it off to a lab for the IFA test. This came back negative. After whooping for joy, I researched some more and found it was a...

My poor Sammy suffered an acute pulmonary oedema this afternoon while on the IV drip and couldn't be saved.  No words for my feelings right now.