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Warning: This will be a long thread. Springtime is puppy and kitten season at our local shelter, and every day they get more than 200 animals, most of them young strays. Three months ago they took in three 4-month old Siberian Husky mixes rescued from an abandoned puppy mill – they were up for...

@Denice  You are right. This site is by far the most welcoming and knowledgeable cat site I have come across. Thank you all for helping me and Gracie.   I spent another two hours or so going through some of the articles on the IBD cats site and Dr. Becker's site. @LDG  Thank you again for the...

Thank you @stephenq  - the pill pockets aren't really a big hit with Gracie as she won't even touch the pill when I offer the coated version to her.  I called the vet about Metro today and asked her about the potential dangers of using it. She said that it was completely fine, but after doing...

Thank you for your input. Gracie had an IBD flare-up about two and a half weeks ago, and that’s when the vet prescribed the metro (she had already been taking Pred.) She hasn’t had any flare-ups since and I had the same question about using the Metro long term. I’ll call my vet about the...

Smitty's sacked out on the quilt patch I was working on and Gracie's sniffing and supurrvising the sewing machine.   After these kitties wake up from their beauty sleep, I have to rearrange the entire patchwork and start sewing things on. They just know that when I'm not working on quilts, I...

Our 13-year old female cat, Gracie, was diagnosed with a moderately severe case of IBD (this was confirmed with a biopsy about a month ago, but we knew she had it a couple weeks prior with results from other tests and the symptoms). She’s taking prednisolone every other day and 0.6 mL...