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Thank you everyone for the input. Thank you for sharing your stories. I think some of you misunderstood... I would never put an animal down over a UTI! She'll get treated for it and recover from it undoubtedly, she gets them every so often, she tends to be prone to them. My husband and I...

This is a difficult topic, but I believe it may be time for me to think about putting my 14 year old cat down. I've had her for 13 of her 14 years, adopted her from a shelter when I was 13 years old. (Thanks mom! Best b-day present ever!) She's always been a clingy cat, always sitting on my...

Greetings! My large, grumpy, 14 year old cat has bad arthritis and bone spurs. Cosequin worked for many years, but it's effectiveness seems to have fizzled. Vet gave us tramadol, which is so so difficult for me to get in her... I foster cats and have pilled many cats in my life, and this cat is...

Thanks for the replies. Unlike a lot of shelters I've seen, the one here doesn't have a major food sponsor, or if they do, they don't talk about it. On their 'wish list' they ask for 'any high quality food', which is what prompted my curiosity. The shelter we used when we lived in Kentucky was...

So you just have one giant tub of food filled with several types of food? I had thought of that a a possibility. Good to know!

Hello! I've been wondering about something and it's driving me absolutely crazy, and I thought someone here might know the answer. I occasionally scour the internet for pet food coupons that equate to nearly free bags of food (Iams is particularly good about coupons). Last month I managed to...

My kitty has been dragging her butt on the carpet, so I took her to the vet maybe two weeks ago. Anal glands are fine, they gave her a de-wormer. About a week later I've noticed she's constipated... she's eating less and she goes in the litter box, strains, produces a small poo, gets out and...

Jeza has itchy butt. After she uses the litterbox she gets out and drags her butt on the carpet and then licks herself. Never done this before and it's been going on for about a week! She's had two UTIs before, and she peed everywhere but the litterbox, so I can rule that out. Also, no diarrhea...

Ok, so- high protien food. What's a good dry high protien food? Also, keep in mind Jeza got UTIs both times I've tried switching her before (and I mixed it for like, a month). No UTI on any of the wet foods I've tried, which adds to my hypthesis that her UTI was impacted by a lack of moisture in...

Vet says... "you know, if she lost weight her leg wouldn't hurt as much" (Jeza has a bone spur). One vet gave me the worthless advice of feeding them both four times a day, different foods each. Not possible- I work. Another vet gave me the idea of the small box with food only the kitten could...

I have two cats... one very fat cat... I think she is 15lbs, not a large frame, but in her defense she does have huge paws. She is 9 years old. The young one turns 1 in June. I'd like the fat cat to lose some weight. My first attempt was by adding wet food into the diet to speed the...

Personally, I think it's a quality of life issue. I believe animals need to be put down when their suffering can't be controlled. Ask your vet if she's suffering, and if she is, if there is anything that can be done about it. It's definitely a case by case issue and you need to get your vet's...

I tried it and my cat woke up from her nap and looked really startled. However, I also remembered that when cats are really really stressed or scared they pant... mine has done it once or twice at a vet. Perhaps they are responding thinking you are stressed or scared.

Oh, also, don't give them the mineral or salt wheels, it's just a waste of money. And if you take them outside, make sure they're in the shade, they get hot SO FAST. I took mine out once in the sun, and almost instantly he was in obvious distress. Poor baby just had too much fur. Also, the wheel...

Cavycages.com has a TON of information on guinea pig care. They're babies now, so the cage you have is big enough. However, they'll get HUGE (truly, mine are gargantuan) They need vitamin C, which is only in guinea pig pellets, and not other small animal food. They can also get vitamin C from...

Some cats are actually colorblind, and when you can't see red light you can't see the laser! Two of my mom's cats love the laser and chase it all over the house, but the third can't see a thing! The two cats will be going crazy and the third one is like "what is everyone looking at?" He's not...

My 9 year old cat has a bone spur... so the vet says from the x-ray. Unfortunately, my friend had an elderly cat who also had a 'bone spur', which turned out to be cancer... I supposed I'm worried about this being cancer... from what I understand, the only treatment for bone cancer is leg...

It's actually really great the parents died before the babies hatched... our fish had babies once (live birth) and the other fish, of the same school, followed the birthing mother around eating the babies as the emerged. it was really awful.

My kitten is silver, and around 6 months she started to get some rust color around her mane and on her belly. I think she's developing more colors as she grows older.

I'm feeding a mix of wet and dry. They have free choice dry during the day and get half a can of wet at night... but I always feed the same wet flavor, just because it's just chicken, and I'm not big on the idea of liver (ew, toxins) and fish makes my apartment smell, as my roommate put it, the...