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Jeffery the cat is gone. I posted about his on-going apparent upper respiratory infection issue which started in December. We took him to the vet and they focused on his thyroid level. At the time he wouldn't really eat and sounded like he was gagging. The vet practice people had us bring him...

Jeffery, whom I have posted about before, has had a vexing upper respiratory thing off and on since December. He's the hardest cat to get into a pet taxi or to medicate. He's timid, fearful and will slink around when you just think "It's time to give him his medication." We've spent $1100 on...

So Jeffery the cat has been doing pretty good on his thyroid medication. I mix it in his food and sprinkle some fortiflora on it and he eats it up. I don't know if he accidently sniffed it, or if just acquired a URI at the vet. Anyway at his last check up, the vet prescribed doxycycline, 1/4...

FDA to investigate after ABC7 exposes euthanasia drug in dog food Much of the story goes back to the 2016 Evangers story about a can of their dog food killing a family's dog and severely sickening her other dogs. After that long long rehash, you get to the current story. A lab by the name...

I give up on this cat. Face it some aren't worth the expense, the scratches, the bites the hissing and hiding. I knew that if Jeffery got sick, it was going to be hell getting medication to him and I've been trying to get thyroid medication to him twice a day now since Christmas. He's coming up...

We spend more on cat food than we do groceries. Our current group of cats have always been wet food fed. Some have had freeze dried raw. We have rotated a wide variety of pate and morsel type foods for variety interest and making sure they were getting the nutrients they needed. Jeffery the cat...

Halo the cat, who has been with us for a bit over a year now, sometimes meows in her sleep. She doesn't wake up when she's doing this. They are little crackly, short meows. I assume she's dreaming. She doesn't get along super with the other cats, and there are occasional dust ups between her...

I can't seem to find how to SHUT OFF e-mail notifications for threads. I looked in my general settings and don't see a way to universally and blessedly get rid of e-mail notifications.

What do you do to give skittish cats medications without them associating you every time they see you, with the medications? Jeffery is my newest patient in my cat household and I have to give him methimazole every 12 hours. For the next couple of days it also includes a drug to help reduce...

Smalls cat food is a mail order company with 3 basic choices for food. Showed up on the blog "Conscious Cat." It looks good. Expensive but probably not any more than some premiums. My cats do not like the powder with supplements that you should add to home cooked foods. Even the trial pack is...

We took our cat to the vet yesterday because he didn't eat his supper the night before, or breakfast. They didn't find anything on physical exam but his blood test showed that he was hyperthyroid--really high too. So we started him on 1/2 a tab every 12 hours, the first dose last night, 2nd this...

My 14 year old Jeffery didn't really eat breakfast this morning and tonight he was plainly not interested in supper. He's making a noise that sounds like he's got mucus going down the back of his throat (if he were a human). He sort of snorts then swallows like it was mucus he was clearing...

Today was Scoobaby's annual vet visit day. I also had them do a senior panel to see where he might be on the hyperthyroid issue and to check other things too. He's 16. We're going to try the methimazole again. Last time didn't go so well. And I have to be careful about his food and avoid high...

What kind of snacks do you use to help keep weight on senior cats? My cat Scooter is 16 now. He used to be chubby but as he ages, he has a harder time keeping weight on. Part of it is hyperthyroid, and part of it is being a super senior kitty. He has trouble maintaining interest in his meals...

I'm so exhausted, and I've looked at a lot of info on surgery, food, for cats with megacolon. I just sprung my cat Booberry from the vet specialist after 4 days of enemas and golyte treatments to clear out a colon blockage. I was worried foremost about his survival and not far behind, the cost...

My 15 year old cat Scooter has elevated t4 levels and was started on Methimazole last December. I didn't get to keep him on the medication to get to the full daily dose.  He became lethargic and anorexic just on the 1/4 tab two times a day dose. I had to stop the medication and syringe feed him...

This summer we lost two good cats, Charlie and her sister Etta. Charlie was first noticeably ill July 11 and the diagnosis was probably some kind of cancer. We brought her home for a few more days of sitting in the window and pets. She was gone by the 23rd of July. Days later, I noticed Etta was...

Etta the tuxedo cat came into my life 13 years ago August. She lived two houses down from me. I'm pretty sure she was one of 6 kittens that belonged to a cat we called Little Miss. In September if this little, feisty tuxedo came bounding down the driveway of that house. She had a Siamese meow...

It's 6:44 AM. Waiting for the vet to open and I'll be taking Etta in. I think the fluid in her abdomen is pushing against her diaphram and making it hard for her to breath comfortably.  She's had two drainings of her abdomen, the last of which was a week ago.  Her blood count at that...

Etta got her 2nd blood test today to see if the thyroid medication was at the right level. She was at one full tablet of methimazole. She initially was at 10.4 on the scale for hyper thyroid and now is at 3. So now it is 1 and 1/4 tab twice a day. She's been perky, social, eating well. Fights me...