Recent Content by tiberria

Just adopted this new 6 month old cat and am trying to determine what the correct description of her coat color is? Calico? Torbie? Tortico? Caliby?

The swelling seems to have been progressively declining since yesterday morning, and he seems to be acting more and more like himself as time goes on, but he still won't let me look at his mouth. He has a followup vet visit scheduled on Friday evening anyway, so as long as he keeps improving, I...

My 1.5 year old cat had all of his bottom teeth removed yesterday due to stomatitis - he was scheduled to have all of his teeth removed, but they called me during the surgery advising that because they are seeing significant swelling, they recommended staging it and removing the rest after he...

So, the SPCA called me today and said that they had a mix up with their vet and now want to wait a minimum of 6 weeks from the March 8 test to retest Spyder, which would take it out to April 22.  I won't have a vehicle available to me between April 19-May 4, and asked them if I should get it...

So, thinking about the absolute worst case scenario - if she ends up testing FeLV positive, what do I do?  Would it be a reasonable course of action in that situation to just get my 9 year old cat FeLV tested, and if he's negative, give him a FeLV vaccination?  He has not had one before, and my...

What also sucks is that they do not want to re-run the retest right away, they want to wait a week, because that will make it 30 days from the initial test, and apparently a 30 day period from the last possible exposure is needed to rule out FeLV with a higher degree of certainty.  I would love...

More details - apparently there were 24 cats at her original home - 12 in the first batch that my kitten came from and 12 in a second batch.  Out of the 24 cats, 23 tested FeLV negative and 1 tested faint positive.  What is the likelihood that this is even an issue vs the SPCA wanting to use the...

On March 19, I adopted a 6 month old kitten from the SPCA.  Her health records indicate that she was spayed, treated for parasites, 1st set of vaccinations, etc and tested FeLV negative (on March 8).  She apparently came in with 12 other cats from a hoarding situation.  She has been settling in...

Apparently, my decision is made for me anyway, because there literally are no kittens or cats <2 years old available at any of the shelters within a 100 km radius right now.  The SPCA shelter tells me that it's normal for them to not see many kittens this time of year, because people tend to...

I had 2 9 year old cats (not brothers but adopted within a month of each other) since they were kittens.  I just had to put one of the cats down after a rapid illness.  My inclination is to adopt another kitten to fill the void.  What have people's experiences been with how surviving cats react...

Final update on this - yesterday, about 4 hours after I made the mid-day vet trip, he started noticably going downhill.  His nose bleeding intensified and then a couple hours later progressed to out right constant panting/open mouth breathing.  He was also crying out in pain whenever touched and...

He's also having difficulty breathing, or is at least making sniffly noises with all breaths, but I assume that's just the upper respiratory congestion/nose bleed.

I took him back to the vet this morning, because his nose started to bleed again.  They said that he was almost entirely blocked, but they were able to drain his bladder by sticking a catheter in.  They gave me the option of either treating him with anti inflammatory drugs and seeing if that...