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Let's say you took a cat who had vomiting, anorexia, malaise and had recently stopped drinking water to the emergency hospital and they ran blood work (all normal) and did x-rays and abdominal ultrasound and found nothing. Poisoning not a possibility. Several hours later the cat is "bright" and...

My big beautiful boy, Rumi, passed away early this morning. He was only 2.5 years old. He'd had Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia and had been stable for over a year on DepoMedrol and Cyclosporine, and then things suddenly went downhill in August and he was hospitalized, given a transfusion, and...

Any ideas or opinions concerning tests or treatment are very welcome! I'll try to summarize what's happened so far. Rumi, 2 yrs. old, has been struggling with Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia for a year and a half now. He initially tested positive for FeLV, a follow-up negative test + bone...

(Sorry I couldn't get a clearer shot. He won't sit still when the camera's on him.)  So last night Rumi's eye was perfectly fine, he was perfectly fine, then this AM I noticed he was squeezing his left eye shut and would only open it a sliver. He does have Feline Herpes Virus, but I've never...

I'm wondering if there's anything, natural or pharmaceutical, that can help prevent flare-ups. Or if there's any medication that treats flare-ups once they occur.  Thanks in advance!

I'm asking this on my brother's behalf, whose kitty suffered an extreme Herpes virus flare-up. One day the eyes were a little runny and he was sneezing, a couple of days later he had pneumonia, wasn't eating or drinking, and was in the hospital on IV fluids and antibiotics. His internist doesn't...

She struggled with end stage kidney disease and fought valiantly, keeping her spunk and spirit, surprising her vets, even when values said she shouldn't be doing so well.  It was almost a year ago- February 24th, actually- when her internist delivered the news that Rory had underdeveloped...

He was in amazingly good health just one short month ago with an HCT of 44% and now HCT is down to 27% and falling  (HCT = red blood cell count.) The only thing that changed in this time period was a neuter surgery (he's been sick since kittenhood and I finally got him fixed after the last...

I need a pill cutter with the sharpest blade available for quartering crumbly tablets.  I've always had trouble getting a clean cut with prescription meds, but herbal tablets are thousand times worse.  (Why must holistic treatments always come in horse pill sized tablets that disintegrate if you...

If a kitty gets 1/4 tablet of regular Pepcid, what fraction of a Zantac tablet should they get?  It would be twice daily, correct?

The ingredients list is pretty impressive*, and they're doing a great job hyping it up, so I was hoping the nutrition gurus here could take a look at the ingredients/nutritional analysis and offer their critique.  Does that tapioca ("no cheap fillers" they say, but, uh, tapioca is high up there...

Would it make a difference if the median survival rate was 2.74 years and the average cost was $15,000 (not including monthly cost of anti-rejection meds and follow-up care)?  Plus, you have to adopt the donor kitty (from a kill shelter, so kitty gets a new lease on life).   My little...

There's been some question about Rumi's FeLV status since his last ELISA test was negative and all his siblings tested negative.  He underwent a bone marrow aspiration yesterday at the specialty hospital- we need to determine the cause of his non-regenerative anemia if he isn't FeLV+- and the...

Took Tyger in to the vet's earlier for a quick check-up and FeLV testing (negative! ) and was discussing his tendency to pant after strenuous exercise.  I'd been told months ago, when he was just a kitten, that it could be a concern if he doesn't outgrow it.  Well, he's 1 year now and still...

Not sure if this belongs in health or nutrition   I just started giving one kitty Azodyl and was wondering if it's Ok for her to eat food from the community dish containing a different probiotic. Here are ingredients for both: Azodyl: Kibow Biotics174 [E. thermophilus (KB 19), L. acidophilus...

In a grotesquely ironic twist, my little girl, Rory, who everyone believed was mildly anemic due to FeLV, turns out to be actually be FeLV negative.  Ordinarily it would be a cause for celebration, but it was discovered a couple of days ago that her anemia is the result of acute renal failure...

A firm pea-sized lump popped up literally overnight (between Saturday and Sunday) on one of my FeLV+ kitties, on his right side behind the front leg, almost right in the crook between the thigh and ribs.  The lump is movable, definitely not attached to muscle or bone.  Today the lump seems to...

I need something to supplement home-cooked, and canned meat, meals, but it has to be completely void of flavor for my super finicky kitties.  Tried Wysong's Call of the Wild and it did not go over well...http://www.sadtrombone.com/

And how soon after stopping it would things return to normal?  One of my felv+ kitties started pred a couple of weeks ago and hasn't seemed entirely herself since.  The past couple of days have brought new troubles: now she yells for food while I'm preparing it, runs to the plate and sniffs it...

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