Awww! Today Rocky woke me up and after I fed them and went back to bed (hey, it's Saturday) he settled down on my arm, laid his head down on my chest and started purring. It was so cute! He almost never does that.
I have to get up around 6 (it would be so nice to sleep until 8 or 8:30. )...
Breakfast is around 6:30 AM (depends on when Rocky wakes me up). They each get a 3 ounce can of food in the morning and they are fed in seperate rooms (though they always take a bite out of each others food before going to their own).
Lunch is 12:00 or 12:30 PM. It depends on a few factors. They...
I don't have experience with older sick cats but I do know when I would say it's time.
What is their quality of life? If their not eating well, not feeling very well most of the time, constantly having to take meds and going to the vet, not themselves, seem like their in pain etc. and they...
Does anyone have experience with Feliway working for them? I'm thinking of getting the stuff in the spray bottle for spraying in carriers. Rocky's a trooper and actually kind of likes going to the vet. Penny flat out hates it and thinks it's the worst thing in the world. She stresses out so much...
I know, right? After he wakes me up I get out of bed and I'm stumbling around to the food bowls and changing water in water bowls and scooping litter boxes all half asleep. It's a miracle I don't fall down the stairs.
I know quite a bit about FIV as Penny was diagnosed with it last year.
She never graded his heart murmur. She said he had a "slight heart murmur." She was listening for about 15 or so seconds so I'm guessing a 1 or 2. We're going to take him back to get further testing once he's feeling 100%...
Okay so....last year the vet we took Penny to the vet when she was sick was just filling in for the regular vets as they were on vacation. We didn't know that at the time and did not like the vet AT ALL. I was searching quickly for a vet that took walk-ins and found that hospital again and...
I can only do that if I take him to the emergency room....my vet doesn't take walk-ins and the next available appointment was tomorrow at 10:30 AM. So I guess a trip to the emergency vet is in order...
One in the living room on the main floor, two in two seperate bedrooms on the second floor, and one in the basement under the stairs.
Spike can only get to the one in the living room and he's only in there when we are and knows he'll get in trouble if he tries eating anything from it. His access...
I have an appointment scheduled for tomorrow at 10:30 AM. Right now I have him isolated in the master bedroom with his food and water bowl, a litter box and some toys. He's been sleeping and wanting out of the room some. I don't think he has any sort of blockage.
I have observed him closely and...
Last night I noticed one of the cats had really bad smelling diarrhea. Today I monitored the litter boxes and found out it's Rocky. He's gone at least three times so far today and I'm almost positive it was him who vomited on the carpet (partially undigested food). He isn't acting sick in any...
They aren't outside cats. When we first got them almost three years ago (when they were seven weeks old) they were being kept outside. They were on the wild side. We kept them inside for about a month to get them used to our home and then we let them outside as we were in a very rural area with...
I wash them outside. I carry all of them outside to the driveway and empty the litter into a garbage bag. Then I turn on the hose (hot and cold faucet) and rinse them out. Then I squirt soap into them and scrub with a scrub brush. Rinse and dry. Bring them into the garage where the container...
5 cats (only two have died of old age). The only vaccinations they had were rabies. All were/are spayed or neutered. Once a year to the vet. One lived about 20 years, and the other 23 years.
I don't take everything I read on the internet and take it as the truth. I'm sorry if I came across that...
The problem with that is that you won't find many vets that are okay with raw. Which is sad. So where can they turn to?
I've been lucky enough to finally find a vet in the area that suggests raw. The cats next vet appointment will be with her and I will be discussing raw with her.
I think raw+kibble is a bad idea. Different digestion rates would really mess the cats digestion up.
Raw+canned would make a lot more sense if you're going to feed something in addition to raw.
I know and that's the problem. People see them as "just a cat" and don't give a rip on what to feed...
Such as? I really genuinely do want to know because I personally know at least two people who have fed their cats like this for the cats entire life and never had any health problems, were extremely healthy and lived a long life.