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The rest of her behaviour is entirely normal. She had a fractured pelvis earlier this year but it seems to have healed and the vet couldn't find any sign of pain with normal handling when she had her booster a couple of months ago. The only health issue she has is frequent zipperworm...

We're a bit concerned about our little black cat's growling and hissing. She's 16 months old, spayed as a kitten. A couple of months ago she started yowling and growling when picked up. She doesn't struggle though and the noise stops when she's put back down. Since then she's started hissing...

I brought a new foster home today. There's still a possibility that her owner may be found so at this point she's an unofficial foster and hasn't yet been seen by a vet. She can't seem to get comfortable but she's not huge. I'd guess her to be around 6 or 7 weeks along. She is a purebred...

We have a 12 week old German shepherd pup who is very interested in the cats. We can usually keep her out of reach of them but today she cornered my boy and tried to roll him over with her paws. He has a couple of long scratches on his belly and another on top of his head. They're not deep but...

A friend has just found that his 4 year old chinchilla has sores on both back feet - he initially thought the cat had been chewing at his feet but the vet thought they looked more like pressure sores. The vet suspected diabetes but the in-office blood tests were fine. The cat has been sent home...

Apparently it's too much to ask for things to go right :( She has a hernia, possibly two. I'm going to have to take her to the vet after all. Surgery is not something I'm willing to risk so I really hope they don't get any bigger. Considering that I'm sure they weren't there yesterday (well...

I have a bit of a dilemma. Jellybean is due for her second vaccination in a couple of weeks and I don't know if it's really in her best interests to have that done. Her murmur is so severe that I can feel it through her chest wall when I hold her, like her heart is buzzing. She is abdominal...

Heart baby is Jellybean. Her brother is Brian (because he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy :biggrin:). He's a fluffy tuxedo baby. Jellybean seems to have had a personality transplant along with her spay. It's like she's suddenly woken up. No more sleepy kitten - she's playful and...

She did indeed survive her surgery, and she's back home and officially ours! She'll get a follow up ultrasound (kindly done for free by the vet) in a few months to have measurements done. We are also keeping her brother, who is perfectly healthy, so our permanent cat population has just jumped...

The diagnosis is in and it's not good. She has aortic stenosis, likely a severe case though she's still too small to be able to do ultrasound measurements. She can't be placed for public adoption so we had a choice of having her euthanased immediately or adopting her for as long as she has left...

Well, I now know otherwise. She was taken into care while she was in labour! Zero chance of pregnancy so we need to look for another explanation. My money is on a backed up colon.

I will. In the meantime I guess all I can do is treat her like a pregnant princess until I know otherwise!

I can't see any obvious problem with her nipples. She seems happy enough for the kittens to nurse from her, and she's even started playing with them now that they're a bit bigger and more interesting. She seems happy enough except for not wanting her sides touched. She will tolerate it from me...

I'm really hoping she's not pregnant, poor girl. She's only young herself.

Her current babies are doing well, with the possible exception of one that looks like she has a heart condition. I've just relocated them from the kitten room downstairs into my bedroom so I can keep a close eye on that kitten. They have dry food all the time and a warm mush of soaked dry food...

Can a cat's sudden dislike of having her sides touched indicate pregnancy? I'm a bit suspicious about our current foster mama cat. For about the past week she has been lashing out at hands that go near her body. She's still very affectionate otherwise and happy to be touched around the head and...

We will have to wait on the ultrasound, if she lives that long. She isn't a well little kitty at the moment. The shelter has indicated that if the defect is severe she won't be adoptable, so who knows, she might have to spend her whole life with us, however long that is.

One of my 6 week old foster kittens has a heart murmur that the shelter vet thinks is likely a congenital problem rather than an innocent murmur that she will grow out of. She's started having fainting/collapse episodes and shortness of breath. She'll be going for an ultrasound in a couple of...

Two weeks on from the dog attack and she seems to be coping with cage rest. Her urine cleared up over the course of a day or so. She can stand and walk and use a pee pad, and will try to jump if she thinks she can escape. I am concerned about the shape of her hip when she stands. It looks like...

In the midst of feline health dramas I think we may have one happy event - a foster fail! This little boy is only 4 weeks old but he's already showing signs of being extra special and all the humans in the family want to keep him. His sisters are standard cute kittens but there's something...