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We’re about 60 hours Post-operation and we haven’t been able to get our cat to eat. He recognizes the food routine and paraphernalia and gets very excited, but once I put it down he pokes his nose at it once and then insists I give him his food again; I am wondering if he has lost his sense of...

Hi! I took my ten-year-old cat to the vet yesterday because she'd had intermittent vomiting and no bowel movements for several days. Otherwise active, not in any obvious pain. X-rays showed a dialated small intestine. After a conservative 24 hours with subcutaneous fluids and no food showed no...

I had to take my 9-year-old cat Cato to an unfamiliar vet yesterday for wheezing and coughing. She did a fair amount of bloodwork and a chest x-ray. She said she screened for common viruses of concern, heartworm — all negative. She said the chest x-ray showed "more tissue in the bronchial than...

I have a 14-year-old cat who, except for an increasing fondness for couches, seems to be reasonably healthy. The only chronic condition he's been identified with is a dust mite allergy, for which he's taking Atopica. But this morning I watched him have considerable trouble walking for about five...

Hey, folks! My nine-year-old cat ("Cernunnos") has had allergy problems for years, but they've recently become very severe and we're trying to figure out what we can do for him. Injected steroids have lost their effectiveness rather rapidly, but my regular vet has had little to suggest other...

Yesterday one of my cats (Sekhmet) got her tail caught in the door. The door caught the very tip and was not broken; however, the last inch or so of her tail was denuded -- even, apparently, of flesh. I took her to the vet, of course, who trimmed the fur and initially recommended amputating the...