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I'm sure it varies a lot but has anybody gotten an MRI for their cats before? My Mabel most likely has a polyp in her nasal passages, the x-rays were inconclusive because it's all soft tissue. My vet said an MRI could help pinpoint this issue so I'm shopping around for one. I'm in NYC so I'm...

One of my fosters, Jake, often bites people. His favorite thing to do is pounce on a wrist and dig his teeth in. If you resist he just bites harder and hangs on. While it is aggressive, none of his behavior is malicious. He purrs the whole time and clearly thinks it's all in good fun. I'm...

One of our foster cats, Effie, is FIV+ and keeps getting really bad chin acne and UTIs. The vet is reluctant to give her steroid shots as it is an immunosuppressant but we've been through several rounds of antibiotics and it doesn't seem to help. Well, the UTIs seem to get better but this last...

We have a feral cat who lives in our yard who seems too thin. We actually took him to the vet and had a full blood chemistry and fecal test done but the results showed him to be quite healthy. He eats well and seems very happy otherwise. So is he just a skinny cat by nature? It's a tougher...

I have a litter of feral kittens I'm taming to adopt out. They are doing well but a few of them have big round bellies, despite several rounds of deworming (Strongid, Revolution, Drontal). While it's certainly possible they just have really bad cases of worms from being outside, could this be...

i'm looking for replacement lids for half-empty 3 oz cans of food. I know it's kind of a dorky thing to need, but I have a senior cat who is finicky and so I end up with several half-cans that I need to keep around. I've been covering them in aluminum foil, but I'd love it if they made those...

our cat Jefe is prone to crystals so we have been adjusting his diet. He now eats mostly canned (his only dry food is Royal Canin Urinary SO). We have been feeding him Wellness Chicken but I recently started him on Fussie Cat Chicken, it claims to help prevent urinary tract issues. The...

We have a senior female foster named Gilda who is a really picky eater. She is recovering from giardia and lost a good deal of weight so I really want to fatten her up. But it's very hard to get her to eat enough. She will eat something one day, then turn her nose up at it the next day. So I...

Mabel, the senior tabby cat we've been fostering finally got spayed yesterday. Part of the impetus to spay her even though she is older is that she kept going into heat, which seemed to put a real strain on her. She would caterwaul all night long, trilling and singing and coming on to everyone...

Our senior foster Mabel had a big ear polyp which we had removed. The vet warned us it might come back, and now just a few months later, it appears to be so. She started having balance problems and scratched the back of her ear into an abscess. The vet said our options are to remove the new...

Our senior foster Gilda had giardia but has come up clean on her last 2 fecals. She has been living apart from the other cats in the house but now that she is well we wanted her to have the run of the house. While we have litterboxes around the house but she isn't using them, preferring to...

You may recall Mabel, the senior cat we are sub-fostering. She is old but unfixed and has been going into heat for the past couple of months. When the heat cycle runs down she seems to become depressed. She doesn't want to eat and just lies in her cat bed all day. Is this normal behavior for a...

One of our foster cats (Mabel, the senior cat in heat I've written about before) is being treated for ringworm. I tried treating it topically but it continued to spread and get worse. Mabel is from the street and nearly feral (I was only able to get the meds on her because she was in heat and...

i'm sub-fostering a cat for a friend who turns out to have Giardia (the cat, not the friend!) My vet gave me 3 doses of Panacur and a week's worth of Metronidzole; I am supposed to bring in a new fecal sample after 10 days. We're almost through all the meds now but I don't see any outward...

we took in an elderly female tabby cat named Mabel, she was found on the street but appears to have been somebody's housecat at some point. She started off with a host of issues. She had ringworm, a huge ear polyp, and was very skinny (she is small anyway but only weighed 4 pounds when we got...

My male cat is getting over bladder crystals, he is now on Royal Canin SO. It seems to be working, his mood has improved and he hasn't been urinating out of the box ... BUT once or twice a day he paces around, sniffing spots like he is thinking about going*. Before he has a chance, I either pick...

one of my cats has a recurring skin allergy, the cause of which we are still trying to determine (possibly a food allergy). Vet suggested an oatmeal bath so I read up on and ground up some oatmeal for a colloidal bath. But the instructions say you're supposed to soak the cat in the stuff for...

I'm picking up a case of Royal Canin SO for my male cat who has struvite crystals. The food claims it will help dissolve crystals and promote urinary health, etc. Does anybody know a ballpark figure for how long it will take to take effect? I'm wondering how long to wait before having another...

You know how dieters are always reminded it takes the brain like 15 minutes to realize you've eaten enough? What is the timing for a cat brain (never?)? One of my cats is kind of a glutton and will wolf down his food so he can run over and steal the next cat's. I was thinking if I fed him...

one of our male cats has just started on Elavil this weekend to stop him from bullying another newish male in the household. He's been on it 3 days and now he seems noticeably dopey. He is eating and sleeping but that's about it. Waving a string toy in front of him isn't eliciting the usual...