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Hi, A customer came into my workplace today and told me about her problems with her indoor cats and her intention to release them outside in the near future. She says she has no choice. I persuaded her to give me her contact info so that I could look into alternative options and then get back...

Several presumably feral cats live behind my workplace and are fed by multiple people from my work and other neighboring businesses. We can get 5-10 feet away from the cats, no closer. We suspect that all the cats are female, since one is calico and nobody has had kittens this past year that...

I've read that microchips have a small risk of causing cancer or other reactions. Would this risk be magnified for an FIV+ cat? He is scheduled to get chipped tomorrow. Should I be concerned? He is indoor only, but I worry that if he got out and wound up at a shelter, he would be immediately...

I'm wondering if anyone's cat has experienced this, and how you dealt with it. My 17 year old cat is believed to have peripheral neuropathy due to chronic kidney disease. She can't stay standing for any length of time, although she can walk unsteadily from place to place. She eats while lying...

The claws on my 17 year old's back right paw are always extended, but she is able to retract the claws on her back left paw (she's front declawed). Anyone had this happen with their cat? Another thing is that, when I touch the back left paw, she jerks it immediately out of my reach, but when I...

I posted the following on the Feline Lymphoma email group. I'm posting it on this site in case anyone has any guidance or personal experience to offer: My cat Tippy was diagnosed with intestinal lymphoma about a month ago. His ultrasound at the time showed thickening but no masses in his...

My cat will be beginning chlorambucil (Leukeran) treatment for intestinal lymphoma. My concern is that he is currently eating a dehydrated raw diet (Primal freeze dried), and most articles I see recommend against feeding a raw diet to immunocompromised cats or cats getting chemo. Prior to the...

My cat is strongly suspected of having gastrointestinal lymphoma. I have to decide if we are going to biopsy. Please help me by answering some questions: 1) Does Prednisone actually kill cancer, or does it just treat the symptoms/inflammation resulting from the cancer? 2) What difference would...

Has anyone's cat had a GI biopsy via oral/rectal scope? I would appreciate your experiences as I make a decision: My cat is strongly suspected of having GI lymphoma, but it is also possible he merely has severe IBD. Without a definitive diagnosis of cancer, the vet cannot start chemo. So, our...

Hi, My cat had two scary episodes in the past week. They looked like what I expect a seizure would look like (I've never actually seen one), but I don't think they were seizures because he didn't lose consciousness. The vet doesn't know what they are. My cat is currently dealing with drastic...

I got the Primal Rabbit and Stella & Chewy's Duck Duck Goose frozen foods for my cat to try. The Primal is a 1 lb bag for $12. The instructions recommend 1 cup/day for a 10 lb cat. It also says 1 cup has a net weight of 4 oz. So, 1 lb = 16 oz = 4 cups. This $12 bag will last 4 days.....$3 a...

I would like to take a vacation for a week, but I've been avoiding doing so because of my cat's care. She's 15 with multiple chronic health issues, and she takes multiple pills 3x a day. She is aggressive when touched, and while I've learned to medicate her with relative ease, my family is too...

Quick question- I did a quick search in this forum on "chronic diarrhea" and I found a couple mentions of Tritrichomonas Foetus. How contagious is it, or can it be carried without symptoms? My cat with chronic diarrhea shares a litter box with two others who don't have diarrhea. What are the...

Not sure if this is the right subforum, but... I looked at an apartment today, seems like a decent place. But one thing the maintenance guy mentioned was that they fumigate the whole building twice a year. I don't like the idea of pesticide chemicals being used around my cats. Obviously I...

My cats really like lentils. I can't find anywhere that says they're poisonous to cats, but does anyone know for sure that they aren't? I'm talking a small amount as an occasional treat.....

The Min Pin I am sitting sometimes gets stomach upsets that make him chew weird things. I just came home to find his cloth toy slightly ripped and several bits of yarn on the floor. Most were about 2 inches, but one was around 5 inches. I'm worried that he may have eaten some of the strings...

I keep delaying my cat's dental because I'm terrified. I'm scared about the anesthesia and antibiotics and the potential for things to go wrong. And for the longest time, I didn't have a trusted vet who could do the teeth cleaning. I've finally found one who seems good, but I have only been...

So everyone here keeps saying ketamine is bad, bad, bad. But is it? I asked my vet which anesthetics are used for dentals and she said they induce with ketamine/valium and maintain with isoflurane. She says ketamine gets a bad rap, but it is pretty safe. She said they won't do the gas by itself...

Okay...one of my cats needs to visit the vet for a teeth cleaning. I don't have a car right now, so I have to hitch a ride with someone. That someone happens to have indoor-outdoor cats (mine are inside exclusively) who are not up to date on vaccinations. One gets tapeworms fairly often, but no...

I found a small amount of stool on the floor with a quarter-sized amount of bright red blood. It could be one of two cats.... First, I don't know whom to call. It's Sunday, so the only vets open will be the emergency vets, and from what I've read, bright red blood in stool is not an emergency...