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Yes he does get senior visits, 2 times a year. The last time he got bloodwork was only about a month ago, maybe less, and it came back fantastic which is normal for him (thankfully) :) This is too quick of a change in behavior for me to think of chronic illness since he was so playful and active...

Hi everyone, At a family gathering on Sunday, 27 out of 30 of us contracted norovirus. Yesterday was my worst day, I could not get out of bed, throwing up/diarrhea, fever, all that fun stuff. I have two personal cats, Kida and Lavender, who stayed in my room with me while I was contagious so I...

Hello everyone, Just an update - I don't know if anyone has had any luck with this and I'm starting to feel a little doubtful it will work in our situation, but we started her on a hydrolyzed protein diet trial. It was worth a shot since we had a few hills cans lying around the house from our...

This is all great advice, thank you. She was run over by a car when she was younger so she is missing quite a few teeth and has a titanium piece in her jaw as a result of her facial/jaw fractures, which additionally can make chewing a bit of an issue at times so the meat bones would most likely...

To Box of Rain and iPappy, I have no idea how to reply to both of you at once, so I am just replying with the same response to both of you. Bare with me, I’m not great with this platform yet. The information regarding grinder contamination/manufacture contamination and label dishonesty is such...

First of all, I'd just like to thank you all so, so much for all of your responses and insight regarding my topic. I am going to respond to all of you, but I'm not quite familiar with this platform yet so it might take a little while. Hi there, thank you so much for taking the time to give me a...

Hello everyone, I am writing to you all today about one of my family cats, my beloved 21 year old girl named Lily who came into my life when I was 3 and I have not known a day of my life without her being in it. She has always been such a tiny cat, around 6 pounds during her younger days and...

Hi, I have posted about my boy, Lavender, a beautiful rare male blue tortoiseshell, a few times now for various reasons. But after doing a ton of research I keep getting mixed answers. To summarize my question, is it possible to socialize a senior feral cat? He is not able to be returned...

He did move around last night and meowed a few times at least when I was awake. But he still is not eating or using the box at all during the day. I think he's been using it at night because the litterbox has way too much poop and pee for it be from only one cat in the morning when I clean it...

Thank you so much for the speedy response! I thought about the calming collars, but I can barely approach him recently without him withdrawing so I don't know how I'd get one on him without causing even more stress. As for the treats for his medicine, he takes his gabapentin in a pill pocket...

Hello all, Unfortunately, I am back once again with another health concern. I rescued two cats from my parking lot at my college off-campus house about three weeks ago who I had been feeding for about a year. They both came everyday to eat consistently and one of them lived permanently outside...

That's a great idea! I could only find large packs of the wet food version on chewy for $50-$60 and didn't want to buy the bulk order without knowing if Lavender would eat it or not, so that's a great alternative! I will do that :)

Thank you so much for the great advice! Unfortunately the vet's office only had the dry food version of his medicated diet - Lavender has absolutely no teeth left so although he does eat the dry food, I still feed him tiki cat wet food with water mixed in so that he has a higher water intake...

Hello everyone, I recently trapped two cats that I have been feeding in my parking lot for about a year now - one is 3 years old, healthy and very domesticated, and one that is 10 years old, feral (or possibly least semi-feral), FIV positive, has no teeth, is blind in one eye and has bladder...

Hello all - bit of a long story, I have been feeding and sheltering two feral/stray cats since I moved into my off-campus house as a junior in college. I just graduated this semester, and couldn't bare to leave the kitties I'd been taking care of for two years behind. I trapped them both and...

Hello everyone! I am glad to say that after his dose of gabapentin this morning, I was able to catch him very easily. I dosed him around 5:45 am so it would kick in in time for me to start trying to catch him around 7:20. I crawled under the bed with him and sat for a few minutes just petting...

Thank you so much Thank you so much, your response made me feel so much better that I wasn't alone in this. Ugh, it's so hard because you love them so much and you can't tell them you're just trying to help. Everyone is asleep in the house right now so I can't make the cardboard box at the...

Hello all, A quick update- I am beside myself today. I have been staying with my boyfriend and his roommate with the two cats ever since I caught them (the rent on my own house ended much earlier than his and I had no where else to go, as my parent's house has 4 cats already and my mom was not...

Thank you everyone for your encouraging words! I wanted to attach a few pictures/videos of the two of them so you can see them for yourselves. I feel like everyone has to have a visual now! haha

Thank you all so much for the great advice! He does spend a lot of his time hiding under my bed, which was entirely expected, but he does come out intermittently for periods of time and when I crawl under there with him he doesn't run away. He does, at other times, run at my presence, or if I...