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Hi Fyllis, No dental work was performed because the emergency vet had no dental specialist to do the work. I have not noticed any vomiting, weight loss, or diarrhea, but of course he is an outdoor cat and leaves the backyard to "do his business" where I can't see it. No diet change was...

Well, I got the biopsy results back from the vet. There are signs that Boots has either inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or early stages of cancer. :-( There is a $600 test that could make the determination, but since Boots is an outdoor feral, the question is moot. The treatment for cancer...

Well, the good news is that the final bill was a bit less than the conservative estimate. I ended up owing a bit shy of $3500. Still pretty hard on the wallet. The bad news is that they found nothing blocking his throat or airway. What they found was severe dental disease, so his symptoms...

The drop-trap arrived last weekend. I tried to trap Boots the next morning, but when I sprung the trap, he managed to leap out from under it before it hit the ground! He's gone so long without eating properly that now he's no longer even really lured by food, and he's super skittish. So I was...

Yesterday and today I fed Boots kitten milk replacement liquid and he was able to lap it up without choking, so thanks for that suggestion--it is working. He's still probably not getting as much food, calories, or nutrition as usual, but at least he won't starve while wait for the Tomahawk drop...

Di and Bob, Thanks. Kitten milk is a good idea. I just picked some up at the pet store. I located a 24 hour emergency vet nearby as well. Traps are proving more difficult to get on short notice, but I'm working on it. Cheers!     -Ray

Hi Pusheen, Thanks for the quick response. It's definitely choking, not tooth pain. I feed him a combo of dry and wet food, with dry on the bottom and wet on the top. He gags and chokes before even getting to the dry food at the bottom of the bowl, and his reaction--crouched, rippling chest...

For the past 2-3 years, I've been feeding a pair of feral cats--Boots and Socks--who visit my backyard. By now, they know me well. When I started feeding them, they'd leap over the fence to get out of the yard when I opened the door to the backyard and would only return after I'd filled their...