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I have a foster who came to the shelter as a stray presumably having been hit by a car. Broken jaw, various lacerations and pregnant. I have had her for 2 nights. She has been quiet and calm and eats a slurry. This morning she is aborting the litter. Very early in he pregnancy; they could...

I have a feliway dispenser in with her but I could try a calming med if I can get it into her!

It is a bathroom I use, yes. It is upstairs where my office is located. Since I work from home, I usually do my morning email tasks with her and babble at her about work etc.. She was actually more relaxed this morning and lay in my lap for a while like a "normal" cat rather than tensed up so...

She seems afraid of everything. When I go into the bedroom she hides under the bed, but will come out with some coaxing. She purrs and clings when held and after a few minutes of this she will usually be willing to eat. Today she was snuggled in my lap and I was trying to interest her in...

I don't know if she came from an overcrowded house or not, though I can attest to the fact that she hates other cats. She is isolated from mine right now. The only time I have seen her with another cat, she screamed. Like a person, screamed. I work from home, so she spends a good deal of...

I am fostering a sick adult cat for a shelter. She is about 3, but looks like a senior cat. Her coat is dirty and unkempt and she is seriously underweight. She was adopted as a kitten and surrendered for her health. No good details provided. Blood work and urinalysis showed nothing abnormal...

My senior cat (18 years old) was diagnosed several months back with kidney failure.  She has been doing relatively well, though these past few weeks she has started to decline.  I adopted her as a senior - I have little history.  She recently stopped eating completely and became very lethargic. ...

She has a window in the room where she is staying, and I give her about an hour a day on the catio with the other cats locked out.  She loves to be out there, but mostly just wants to be wherever I am.  I give her as much of that as I can, but it's definitely not a single cat household here. ...

Fancy Feast Fish & Shrimp she will eat.  Also, it turns out, the shrimp flavored Meow Mix cups. Little by little she is starting to become more willing to eat cat food.  I mix in small bits with what she will eat, and as long as I don't change the ratio too quickly it seems to be working.

She is drinking raw goats milk now (I use it for my own older cat) and she loves the boiled chicken.  I've managed to cut out the tuna altogether, though on occasion I still bribe her with the only cat food she was eating - Fancy Feast Fish & Shrimp. Little by little I am mixing in more of...

I have an adult foster who refuses to eat cat food.  She came into foster already not eating and with elevated liver enzymes.  They are improving as she starts eating more, but so far what she will eat is: steak tuna pot roast chicken my turkey sandwich She will react to tuna flavored cat...

Thanks again - I will check on the nutrition forum as well.  In her room she is happy most of the time, and she does use the cat trees.  She doesn't race up and down, but I will usually find her on a platform about half way up keeping an eye on things.  She does growl or hiss now if the other...

He's a foster (who I will almost certainly end up keeping), so the vet will only speak with the shelter about him.  I asked at the shelter today and their advice was to wait another week, so he will just be stuck with me as his playmate until then.  I guess nobody really knows how long he is...

I have a kitten who is recovering from a nasty URI.  The past few days he has drastically improved - his eyes are clear (still medicating), he is eating on his own and very well, and he is playing with toys. Now that he is feeling better, his patience at being confined has disappeared.  There...

Thanks - They had previously been together a few times, just never longer than 10-15 minutes. She has possession full time of an upstairs bed/bath and I haven't let the resident cats in her area yet while she is in there - that's her safe place.  She has trees and toys and cat beds in there and...

I have a female foster, about 3 years old. She had stopped eating at the shelter and was looking "off."  The first vet check showed increased liver enzymes, which have improved and are normal on the last recheck.  It takes a lot of work still to get her to eat cat food, but this is getting...

Re the l-lysine, I will try that.  I have some I bought for one of my own when we were trying to diagnose some problems she was having.  He isn't eating enough on his own, yet, but I don't imagine mixing it with the milk replacement would be an issue.  He is very interested in food now - I...

Yes - if the shelter OKs it I will get him to the vet. He really is the sweetest little guy, and it's just heartbreaking to not be able to fix this for him!

thanks - I think that drops would definitely be easier, so I will ask about this.  The vet typically won't see him (outside of a life/death emergency) unless it is arranged through the shelter but they may be willing to switch up his meds.

The eye itself seems clear.  The tissue around the eye is inflamed and there is something white in there, but it moves around and doesn't seem adhered to the eye at all.  I just gave him his night time application of the ointment and I can tell from his reaction that it stings, but I notice that...