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  1. guindle

    Advice. 20 Year Old. New Medicine And When To To Know It Is Time.

    We are trying to hang in there. There has been no changes in her really since she got more used to the gabapentin. She wasn't happy with me last night. I came back from a short trip where my boyfriend was taking care of her and I guess she had an incident with her bum, and she had crusted it up...
  2. guindle

    Advice. 20 Year Old. New Medicine And When To To Know It Is Time.

    I watched about 50 minutes of the first series and am going to watch the rest. She sounds so knowledgeable but it is a lot of info thrown at you and most vets don't care quite that much. I have a pretty good cat doctor. I had a better one back in Wisconsin but this one isn't bad. They don't seem...
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    Advice. 20 Year Old. New Medicine And When To To Know It Is Time.

    She is on liquid buprenex for close to two years. She started on .1cc ( I think that is how it goes) twice a day and now is up to .3cc twice a day. It doesn't seem to bother her or make her weird. Just the gabapentin is messing with her. I know that when I was on gabapentin, the time in between...
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    When Do You Know It's Time?

    Just a note about when it is time. It is really hard to say. I read so many forums about this to see what people say and they have amazing advice. For me, when it was Skitty's time, I could tell. Her breathing was labored, we tried to treat her heart failure but she never started to get better...
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    Advice. 20 Year Old. New Medicine And When To To Know It Is Time.

    I know that this question has been posed over and over. I have spent a lot of time in the last 13 years reading cat forums, for various reasons but mostly about my cat Goat. She is 20 and has severe arthritis. She has been on oral buprenex for close to two years. Her kidney's are failing, which...
  6. guindle

    Current Needle Reccomendation For Subq

    I think if it takes longer, it is ok. She just seems to get upset when I insert the needle so I want to make that more comfortable. I will order some of the 21 gauge ultra thin wall and see how it goes. So far I have just been using the scoop her up and hold her down method. She is old and...
  7. guindle

    Current Needle Reccomendation For Subq

    Hi All, since the terumo 20gauge ultra thin wall needles aren't in production anymore, which needles do you recommend for most comfort? They gave me 18g monoject but she screams at the needle poke. Granted, Goat is a bit of a drama queen, but I wanted to try one of the ultra thin kind people...
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    When You Take A Black Light To Your Carpet And Are Horrified!

    :crackup: I would be sending him to the doctor if he had that size puddles of that glowing substance. I just don't get how this could have been like this and I never saw wet spots. I have blocked off two rooms so the area the cats have carpet is much smaller and have been checking for wet spots...
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    When You Take A Black Light To Your Carpet And Are Horrified!

    I did go in there, other than some misses on the floor around the toilet I couldn't see much of anything but I sprayed what I did find right away. I took the UV light to the whole house and searched for 2 separate nights looking for messes, evidence, and trying to identify if it was my cats or...
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    When You Take A Black Light To Your Carpet And Are Horrified!

    I have read hundreds of posts about what all lights up and what urine looks like and it looks like urine. Some are cleaned though so it means that could have been a hairball with some spot shot I cleaned up or a previous owners dogs spots but many are not cleaned at all. Hair balls I missed glow...
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    When You Take A Black Light To Your Carpet And Are Horrified!

    Cat lovers, I am just in shock over here. Has anyone every experienced or heard of a cat urinating all over the carpet and you didn't notice? I bought a house a year ago. I thought I had taken my UV light to it but I am not sure. I found a little old urine on a plastic bag on the bottom of my...
  12. guindle

    Food Allergies, Pain, Or Something Else? Any Advice...

    I second the comfortzone/feliaway plug ins. I used the multi-cat one they came out with and it seems to work better. I have been using the plug ins for 8 years I believe. I know they work because when they run out, they become anxious and unruly. I use the spray when they have to go the vet and...
  13. guindle

    Sudden onset ataxia. My poor kibbie Goat.

    Well she's hanging on right now. She began walking a lot more on Friday but has periods where she is unable and is dragging her back end. Today wasn't the best day and she hasn't walked much and she's dragged her back end a few times. It's not just dragging though, it's dragging and falling...
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    Sudden onset ataxia. My poor kibbie Goat.

    I was thinking I need guardrails like what a toddler uses. I don't remember if Goat ever jumped. I got her from kitty death row at the humane society at age 7 (best decision of my life) and she was considered "senior" HA fooled them, she has been shaking and moving for 13 years. I have like one...
  15. guindle

    Sudden onset ataxia. My poor kibbie Goat.

    I am waiting for him to call me. I go to a cat only vet and he was out for awhile so I know he is probably swamped. I will start calling and asking in a couple of hours. I just need to ask him a few things because I am responsible for her and her well being. The ER vet had said initially she...
  16. guindle

    Sudden onset ataxia. My poor kibbie Goat.

    My poor girl. We came home from work yesterday to find her next to the bed as if she had fallen off and she wouldn't use her back legs. Where she was, I was pretty sure she broke something when she fell. I scooped her up and rushed to the ER. She actually had ataxia and nothing was broken. This...
  17. guindle

    wet food brand with least phosphorous

    I don't know if you have access to the Wellness brand of cat food there, I see it is mentioned up above. I asked them for a few of them Goat likes and they sent me the whole list. The divine duos are really low and some others are decent. I tried to bold the lower ones. Goat doesn't care for the...
  18. guindle

    wet food brand with least phosphorous

    I have been using all the online resources for CKD cats for a few years and reading forums for phosphorus levels in wet food for my cat Goat. I just got these levels from the actual companies this week Jan 16th 2017 and wanted to share as some of the info I have found doesn't match.  Natures...
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