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Good luck! The food thing is hard. I still don't think the dry one I have my kitty on is the best, but it's one of the few that help w/ urinary crystals and also he doesn't have allergic symptoms from, so not much I can do.

Hi Ginny, Given the food change, i thought I'd mention I have a cat who threw up specks of blood due food allergies. It wasn't liquid blood, but basically the allergies caused a lot of internal irritation. Scared the heck out of me, but once we got him on a food that didn't including any...

Hi, I have and issue I was hoping someone might have some insight into. My cat has been experiencing some hard stools for the last few months. It started around the end of the summer (so far as I know), when he pooped outside the litter box a few times. I finally figured out he wasn't adverse to...

I checked--not FortiFlora but ProViable. But I've be giving only every other day or so, and had given it prior to the current food w/o issue. But not giving it anymore for the moment. Really though, my vet is great. When I called earlier the receptionist mentioned there were a couple of...

I forget the exact probiotic but it was one the vet recommended. I'm not sure it's doing a darn thing though.  In the past couple hours, he's thrown up a hairball and some stomach bile, and had yet another round of diarrhea. Seems like everything is running right through him now, and/or the...

Ugh, frustration. He's now had watery diarrhea five times in the last 24 hours or so. Maybe giving him the pumpkin wasn't a good idea. And the vet hasn't emailed me back, and I called but they've gotten swamped with a couple emergencies, so I don't know when I'll hear back. So I don't know if I...

Thanks, I'll check out those foods. And yeah, I know allergies can suddenly appear after years, but the new foods I've been trying have all had very quick reactions. So even though he may have developed a mild reaction to chicken (the main protein in much of his foods) over the years, he...

I totally get what you're saying! At this point though, after so many allergy issues, I'm really looking just to get him stabilized on a food that doesn't trigger any kind of reaction, so that if I went to a different, potentially healthier diet style in the future, I could fall back on if...

He's never had actual allergy testing. For years he was on the Royal Canin Moderate Calorie urinary health food. Last spring, he had two cutaneous mast cell tumors removed (in two dif surgeries, with two ultrasounds/spleen aspirations that found no evidence of internal tumors.) Since mast cells...

I'm also now wondering if having his allergy under control (if not his pooping) contributed to some of the weight loss. He was 13.5-14 pounds around June, but then surprisingly weighed in at over 15 a few months later during another vet visit, right around the time I was trying to find a new...

Unfortunately, he's never liked wet foods. Just licks the gravy off and ignores the rest. :( He had a few struvite crystals about four years ago, but changing his kibble cleared those up, and he hasn't had them since. He also has a cat fountain that he loves and seems to urinate a decent...

I also just weighed him, and he seems to have lost about a pound since his last vet trip three weeks ago. But that may be a result of the new food, and reduced amount. (He's a bit overweight to begin with.) EDIT: Weight loss may very well be my fault. I wasn't measuring food and I think i was...

So here's the story: after repeated and varied issues with food allergies (including with grain free and limited ingredient foods), about two weeks ago I started my 11yo cat on a hydrolyzed, easily digestible dry food, at my vet's recommendation. I mixed with his old kibble for the first 4-5...

Bad news: my kitty has another mast cell tumor and thusly another round of surgery. :( Good news (for the future reference of others): the vet aspirated the area of the original incision my cat had been licking, and there were no mast cells found there. The prolonged itchiness is just due to...

Thanks! I'm going to bring it up with the vet, but really hoping it's just itching. Especially since the spot he goes for seems to be well below where the actual tumor was, but right where the suturing seemed a bit more complicated. He did mention when the surface sutures came out that it was...

My 11yo kitty had a mast cell tumor removed from his shoulder about a month ago. At about 10 days, he had the surface sutures removed, and the vet indicated there was at least one (maybe two, can't remember) layers of internal dissolvable sutures as well. The wound appears to be healing fine...

Well, he didn't make anymore box trips last night after the fourth, which was just about a teaspoon of mucous. He made me happy by eating some wet food and dry food this morning, and picked up playing a bit more. He seemed alert all evening but more interested in sitting than running around...

I got him an appt for Wed night and the vet is a 5 min walk if need be before then. He's been drinking, but he hasn't show much interest in his food tonight. He went to the box a couple more times and passed a tiny bit of mucousy stool, but hasn;t been back in about 2 hours.

Yesterday, Nico went to the litterbox and defecated. Not too long later he went back and had some diarrhea. It stunk something fierce. I checked his box today after work- he had passed solid stools and urinated, but then not too long ago he made two trips to the box and had diarrhea. Not much...

This is from my area- I don't know how many other areas were affected but I wanted to share it ASAP! Spread the word! http://www.democratandchronicle.com/...WS01/512220330