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Just a quick question...Our 5 month old polydactyl tuxedo cat has 25 toes altogether. He loves to have his feet rubbed and is beginning to tolerate having his nails trimmed (for a treat of course). My question, I did this to help him from "tic-tac-ing" as I call it (the nails hit the linoleum...

Do not count on fungal cultures!!! I adopted two kittens from a litter infested with ringworm and after two scrapings, they still demanded it was not ringworm, Until we all started getting it. My son is still healing spots on his jaw and knee. The cultures are never 100%.

Absolutely!!! We adopted two male kittens from the SPCA and my son, myself, the lady who sold them to us, and her daughter all got ringworm from them. The cats had small scaly circles on them, where hair had fallen off and the skin was black and gray and scaly. It did not itch them. After...

I have a similar problem with our 5 month old SPCA adopted kittens. Bo the bigger, stronger boy is fine, never sucks. But Xander, the sickly little thing will suck his brother any chance he can get. When he was sick from the get go he spent as much time as he could getting Bo to lay down and...

Well, unfortunately, our vet is so very far away. She treated Xander when he was having all those ambulating problems, he's now cured. He has been to the vet off and on for his whole life. I cannot imagine no one would have picked up on this. I might try to wean them off of the soft food...

We have two 5 month old kittens, brothers from the same litter. We love all the snugs they give, but holy moly have they got some rank breath! I was wondering if this is normal for kittens especially when loosing teeth (we have found a few in bed). Or could it be they need to eat more hard...

Due to the graphic nature of this reply, viewer discretion is advised... There was a semi-solid clump of regular poop, then a little red plug of red blood (definately not black or brown) then a small pool of mustardy colored diarrhea. Almost looked like something in the plug was scraping the...

By the by, is that cat actually smiling two replies above?!?!

Much to my surprise, my little shmubbah-lubbah had a completely normal poop this morning! At least I think it was his. He disappeared during breakfast and Xander never did so I'm assuming it was him. He was very active this morning and doing to his usual hungry, feisty, wild self. I'm...

Our two cats adopted through the SPCA came from a litter infested with ringworm. It took a while but eventuallty all the adults, children and cats who came in contact eventually got "the worm". We have had Bo on Program for 8 weeks (4 doses) and he still has been having little bumps here and...

I've been a coal miner all day in that litter box and BoBo never pooped again! He's been eating, playing, attacking, etc. It just doesn't add up. I'm hoping he simply passed a foreign object. We shall see what the morning brings.

Allright, I finally get Xander all healthy and happy, now his formerly tough and healthy brother Bo, has had an incidence of diarhea with a trail of blood in it. He has never had the runs before, or blood in any poop. He is is little more restful than normal, but that can happen on any given...

Great suggestions! I think I'll try a new toy in the archway of the bedroom. He loves playing in the bed with Bo and falls asleep in cozy little puff spots on our bed, but he is afraid of the actual hallway. I do remember a time about 8 or more WEEKS ago when he was still walking a bit and he...

Well, happily Xander is doing so very much better having very quickly recovered from his inability to walk due to a bone infection. Here's the new problem, his brother Bo loves to look in every nook and cranny in the house, but Xander is a little fearful guy who is petrified of the bedrooms. I...

Our little Bo gets very nervous when you hold him any way EXCEPT when you hold him facing OUT and walk around the house holding him up to things he normally cannot see. Today he got really jazzed about a nail hole, he scratched at it, smelled it, and licked it, he also loves to see the Betta...

To all who have been a part of the saga so far...Xander is better than he has ever been. He plays with his brother like a madman, he runs around the Christmas tree, rips ornaments off too, he uses the litter box with lots of gusto in digging, he jumps in and out of his bed, he jogs up the...

Well, the nice vet has had the Xrays, bloodwork and joint fluid tap all looked at by two or three other vets, she is fairly certain one of them will know what the problem is. She decided to put him on Clindamycin drops (antibiotic) to cover any possibility of infection from the joint tap done...

Well, the vet visit yielded no results. The SPCA said bring him Sat or Mon to be put to sleep. Well, I had a hard time with that. I decided with the help of my husband to go ahead and have a few X-Rays done to see if there at least was an obvious reason for putting him down. So, today, we...

Thanks for those reassuring words, but you made me cry all over again and it is very hard to type with tears in your eyes. -Xander's Momma

I made an appt. to see the vet this evening. He was an SPCA adopted kitten, so he will go see the vet he has been seeing for weeks now. I just want to know why this was never an issue for the woman that raised him or why the vets never noticed the problem, he has been there enough times. And...