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yesterday - friday april 26 - our dear friend honeykat closed his eyes for the last time. he was over 20 years old, and has been with my husband since just before our relationship began. i had trouble writing this as i found i kept writing about all his health issues and all the care and...

HK is doing a little better, but messes are happening. does anyone have baby wipes they recommend for cleaning sides of face and lower body as needed? for that matter, does anyone have a cat shampoo or soap they particularly like to get off food, pee and poop? less ingredients is better, i'd...

i talked to the vet about using krill oil for HK's arthritis, who felt that krill oil "couldn't hurt". while that's far from a ringing endorsement, we thought we'd better try something for his poor sore hips. NOTE: for those of you unfamiliar with my posts about HK, he gets severe diarrhea...

HK turned 20 last fall. he's got a variety of issues including IBS, hyperthyroid, kidney disease and so on. he's on a variety of meds, lactated ringers, injectible B12. his IBS means that sometimes he vomits when he poops. he has arthritis, but cosequin, which helped a lot, also gave him...

i've read approximately one million threads on this subject, but could use recommendations and reassurance. HK is over 20 years old and he's on the following - prednisolone for his IBS mithimazole for hyperthyroidism cerenia to minimize the vomiting caused by larger pooping due to IBS. also...

HK (indoor only) has fleas that he brought home some time ago - they first appeared after a trip to the vet. since then, we used revolution, which worked the first few times but then stopped killing the fleas. and he always felt bad for a couple days after we used it. i've steam mopped our...

HK has never had a bath except at the vet and not for years, but there are reasons why he should be bathed now - itchy skin, lying on the cat litter (lol). he's got a variety of conditions (thyroid, kidneys, IBD), and i'd like to use a cat shampoo with few ingredients so as to lessen the...

our senior cat can't use flea drops or stuff like that, so we've been fighting a battle with constant vacuuming, steam mopping, flea combing and what have you. i finally picked up a bag of diatomaceous earth, and yesterday started blowing it into cracks in the floor, under desks and bookcases...

our 19 year old cat has arthritis, and has been on cosequin for maybe 10 months as per his vet. the first 5 months were like a miracle - we gave him half the recommended dose for his weight, and he stopped falling over, started jumping up as well as down and slept without having to wake up and...

HK is going on 18 years old, and he's got his share of issues - IBS, hyperthyroid, kidney disease and constipation, all of which he's getting medication for.  he's always been a cat who wants a lot of attention, but wasn't feeling well due weight loss (he mostly only eats now if we coax him) and...

honeykat is going to be 18 later this year, and while he's mostly in good shape (or so says the vet), he has a condition that apparently is very common where he can't feel his paws too well, which makes him wobbly. i want to get steps so he doesn't have to jump onto the bed (which he still does)...

our poor kitty!  he's got feline kidney disease he gets sub-qs for, hyperthyroid he gets a transdermal for, IBS he gets a steroid for and without a laxative, he can't go at all.  then for the last few weeks, our indoor cat was attacked by fleas that left him somewhat anemic and when we gave him...

our cat is 17.  he's strictly an indoor cat and he's been on subcutaneous fluids for a couple years to help with his feline kidney disease.  he recently developed a flea infestation either from a hitchhiker flea or maybe he picked one up at his last trip to the vet.  our vet has suggested that...