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Thanks all of you for your help and support.  I want to let you know that my beautiful, wonderful, amazing Zero left this world this afternoon.  She had declined very quickly the past 3 - 4 days, and by this morning she could barely walk and was exhausted.  She had been unable to eat or drink...

Wow Laurie - you've obviously been "mommy" to at least one controlling diva, too!.  I still don't get it - Zero knows by now that I would NEVER try to poison her and might even still eat her food if a dropped a bit of garbage in it.  But no matter how nonchalent I try to act, she'll refuse to...

Thanks for checking into the Aventi Kidney Support!  All this differing information has me going nuts!  I can't remember where I first heard of it, but the following quote is what made me decide to try it::  "The pharmacodynamic properties of lespedeza capitata include increase of diuresis and...

Hi!  It's me and Zero again!  Yes - thank God and the universe - she's still with me!  But it seems that every day we're focusing on yet another issue, which I'm learning is the norm when you have an older cat in kidney failure. We are still dealing with the diarrhea, although it has improved...

Thank you both for your advise.  Thankfully Dr. Haley (Zero's accupuncturist, who has also been an emergency vet for years) is coming tomorrow, so I'll see what she thinks.  And Dan32 - yes, Zero has had IBD for a few years now, and was on varying amounts of prednisolone all along.  By the time...

I received the DiaGel yesterday and, admist LOUD protests, managed to get it down Zero's throat.  She of course hid from me the rest of the night and has avoided me the best she can today.  She didn't eat this morning, but late this afternoon she ate a few spoonsfull of baby food.  Then, within...

Well, I cooked the hamburg last night and mixed it with rice, intending to feed Zero that only for a few days to see if it would help.  However, as usual, Zero had other ideas and totally refused to eat any of it, just as she had done with the chicken bone broth I slaved over a week ago!  She...

I decided to post an update on Zero and beg for help with the new/old problem that is now in he forefront....Yes, Zero is still hanging in there.  A couple of weeks ago I gave in and stopped all her medications (other than a few sprinkles of Proviable and an herb prescribed by her accupuncturist...

You've all been so helpful, so I want to give you an update about Zero.  She's not taking any meds and refuses the sub q fluids - although I did try the fluids one more time after a couple of days without them - she got pissed again and tried to hide from me for about 1/2 day, but she's over it...

Thank you all so much for your kind and helpfull words.  Since yesterday morning I have not tried to give Zero any medications or sub q fluids.  It's hard because I know that she would feel better, but I'm already about 50% back into her good graces.  This morning when I woke up, Zero was ON the...

I truly appreciate and understand what all of you are saying.  If Zero goes while she still doesn't trust me or want to be around me, I would carry the guilt and regret with me forever.  The only thing I'm not sure of at this point is whether or not Zero understands that if she went back to...

Thank you SO much for your thoughts and prayers.  I know I'm going to have an extremely difficult time acknowledging when she's had enough.  Zero is precious to me for reasons and in ways even I wasn't fully aware of until the past couple of weeks. So far she is eating - as long as I don't add...

I know this is not a "new" topic, but there are circumstance with my cat that I haven't found any solutions for.  I have a 19 year-old cat named Zero.  She is hyperthyroid, has IBD, and a week ago the vet told me that she is also in kidney failure.  I took her to the vet because for about 5 days...

A few weeks ago I wrote in about my 19 year old cat, Zero.  She has IBD that I couldn't seem to get control of then. She's improving a lot with that now, but yesterday when we got up in the morning, her left leg gave out and she was in pain when she tried to walk.  The vet and I agreed that her...

I just wrote about a "new" wrinkle, but it disappeard somewhere!  So, here goes again....  Zero DID take her pill Friday night seemingly without incident, and I thought she'd done it again Saturday morning.  However, late Saturday afternoon, I found that morning's 1/2 tablet on the bed - licked...

I just have to shout from the rooftops that tonight Zero ingested 25mg of flagyl in pill form without even knowing it!  I'm not saying the battle is over - she got 1/2 the pill instead of a whole one (as originally prescribed before she got so sick), and it may have just been a lucky...

Thank you all for your advise!  I guess I'm lucky that I've never had this problem with any of my cats before.  A couple were very cooperative and let me pill them and/or use liquid medication.  All my cats have used/are using pill pockets.  Zero, on the other hand, has never been successfully...

I've already written in another thread about my 19 year-old cat named Zero.  Very briefly, she's had IBD for about 3 years or so, but it's been kept under control with diet and a tiny dose of prednisolone.  The past several weeks, though, her symptoms have been cycling from awful diarrhea to...

It's me again!  I want to say that Zero is quite a bit better.  Her stools range from normal to a bit soft, but she only goes about once a day, so it's not the frequent, explosive kind anymore.  She definitely has a much better appetite and is keeping me hopping by insisting that I come up with...