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Thank you to everyone for your replies.  After speaking with the vets again this morning it was decided that it was time to let Stinky go.  Even with a diagnosis (and she did not have an official diagnosis yet), she had a massive skin wound that wasn't healing and another opened up just above...

A little background on Stinky. She is 15 1/2 years old.  She lives in a bookstore with another cat, Harriet, who is almost 17 years old.  Two years ago, my office (and the cats) moved from our original location to one of our other stores.  Several months later I noticed Stinky was drinking &...

The stuff the vet gave me to mix in the litterbox to check for glucose in her urine (Glucotest by Purina Veterinary Diagnostics) has been indicating NO sugar in the urine.  I tested her blood this morning and she was 362, still high.  The vet did say that testing an animal's blood with a meter...

The cats at work and home get tap water filtered through a Brita filter, and there are Drinkwell fountains with filters at both home & work.  For most of their life the work cats drank bottled water because the water at our previous office was very suspect.  I never drank the stuff myself so I...

We have to cats at work who are now getting on in years.  At the end of last summer I noticed Stinky (born Nov 1998) was drinking & urinating more often.  I have Type 1 diabetes myself so that's what I immediately thought of.  I tested her blood sugar using my meter and it was in the mid-70...

My cat Issac loves to eat paper.  I've never thought much about it because he throws it back up eventually and leaves little paper mache mounds on the floor.  But eating cloth can be dangerous if your cat manages to swallow a long thread.  One of cats at work likes plastic and last year we had...

I just spoke to the vet.  He said the urine culture showed two types of e. coli bacteria and that the antibiotic she's been taking should be effective for both, so there's no change in medication.  He said that it's possible the infection moved from the urinary tract to the kidneys and that's...

Last year the vet did recommend Miralax.  She hasn't been getting it every day but if she doesn't go in two days she gets it.  She also gets it on Sundays because nobody at work is willing to give her pills or liquid, but mixing something into her food is easy. As for letting her out of the...

My co-worker originally spoke with the vet because I wasn't at work on Thursday.  I did speak briefly with the vet and all he said was that there was bacteria in her urine.  The culture was not back yest and I'll probably have to wait until Monday for that.  I plan on calling back on Monday and...

Harriet, one of the cats at my job, has been on Propulsid (cisapride) for years, along with lactulose.  I had been getting her cisapride from her vet, 10 mg twice a day.  My office just moved in June and the cats went to their new vet two weeks ago.  That vet only had 5 mg cisapride.  He also...

Knowing there are cats waiting at the office makes going to work much better!  Things are going to start getting very busy at work in the next couple of weeks.  A co-worker was in my office snuggling one of the cats today and he said he was going to be doing that a lot in the coming weeks to...

We have two office cats at my job, Stinky & Harriet.  I am their primary human.  In June, my office moved from one of our locations to another and the cats came with me.  Harriet adapted immediately and Stinky hid for several weeks before venturing out.  Once she started coming out, she settled...

Hi, My name is Liz.  I have two male cats at home (Otto & Isaac) and two female cats at work (Stinky & Harriet).  Isaac is the youngest, around 7 years old, and the rest are in their teens.  I found Otto outside my apartment building when he was around 6 months old, and the rest were adopted...