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Tell me about it!  Well, at least the financial strain isn't so bad. My cat is a very active breed, but she had to be in a kennel for months with little time outside of it.  She actually got used to it so that when she had short periods of supervised freedom, she would just go back into her...

Ok, my opinion based on obsessively reading and researching the condition, talking to multiple vets, and going through the surgeries with my cat is that it does NOT get better and only gets worse. I waited to see if my cat might get better with rest and diet and she did not. She needed the...

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Hi again! A question for those who've had the surgeries. Maila is now 4 months past the first knee surgery and 2 months past the second one. I have her still in her crate at night when I sleep and when I go to work, but otherwise she roams in the room free. The bed is a very low futon and I've...

Good luck and hang in there! My girl just had her second surgery yesterday and I pick her up today. It will be great to have it all behind us once recovery is done. The first one healed very well and pretty quickly.

It's amazing how different everyone's stories are for the same surgery.  I have read about this everywhere I can, and this entire thread as well, and see a lot of differences in recovery time, post-op care, cost, etc. So far from what I've been reading, I have the record for highest cost of the...

We're only 6 days after leg #1. The discharge instructions and vet tech said to start at day 3. I thought that was kind of weird. I also feel like a lot of the instructions applied more to a dog and barely altered for a cat's care.

New here! My cat Maila is recovering from surgery for her luxating patella. In the post-op instructions, it said to use ice then heat packs as well as some passive range of motion, physical therapy exercises. She's not letting me touch her leg to try and move it, but she's been able to walk and...