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Hi everyone. I have not been around for a long time but now I need some info and some advice. My 17 year old Ellie (some of you will remember her) was diagnosed earlier this year with hyperthyroidism, and has been doing very well on Hills Thyroid care pates. She will not touch the croquette dry...

Hello everyone. I have not been around for awhile, too busy with my 11 current cats and fosters, not to mention other activities, but I would like to share a problem and ask advice. About 5 months ago I found a stray kitten on the roadside, far from any houses. Not unusual, except that this...

Hallo everyone. I have not been on here for a long time, too busy with my hands-on cat rescues. But I have recently had a very scary experience that I want to share, involving FeLV testing. Because I had a rescue cat that proved FeLV positive and was already showing a number of symptoms, I had...

I have been off the boards for ages, recuperating from a series of health and emotional problems, and general stress. Things had been getting better till last week, when I lost my Felix to FeLV. Four weeks ago I took him the vet as he seemed off form and the guy on duty (not my regular vet)...

Dushka was diagnosed with CKD a year ago, and then with kidney stones about 6 months ago. She was seeming to do well on a special diet with some supplements and her last check was very positive. But for hte last week she has been visibly going downhill, she sleeps all the time, does not want to...

I have just agreed to take in (I must be crazy!!) a 2 year old white deaf cat. She was found at the back of a shop that had closed and taken in by someone who was going to keep her. She went for her spay and the vet told the new owner that this cat has to be kept inside. The lady realized this...

Here are some pix of me and my new Western trained horse, Texane. I do not have her home yet - she is still under training at the ranch, where I am riding her as often as I can. She is a Fjord pony, the same breed as my Freja, whom I lost last year, but slightly smaller and more stocky, as...

The builders have been onsite at my house for three weeks now, doing major renovation work. They have demolished an old rackety extension that joined the two parts of y house together, dug out the hillside at the back to make more space and are now just starting the rebuild. Meanwhile I am...

Three of us plus a friend's daughter chasing three escaped Shetland ponies and a very recalcitrant goat through the garden and back to their field yesterday. The pictures tell the story.

Dushka went for her check-up blood test today, and the result is very worrying. Her creatinine is now down from 3.7 to 2.8, and the urea level is 37. The blood glucose is up a bit to 169, though that could be stress. The vet could not suggest anything right now other than what I am doing -...

One rainy night in Sarajevo in 2004, I found a tiny kitten sheltering under my car. When I went to move her I realised she was black and sticky with oil, grit and dirt. The streets were running with stray cats – she was just one of many, condemned to live a short, brutal life outside. I took her...

Persil went into hiding yesterday, but I didn't worry at first as she does not like my friend's dog, who is staying with us. At suppertime I went to search for her, and finally found her inside the base of my bed. She yowled when touched, and couldn't walk properly. By 10.30 we were at the...

My brother rang me this morning with a problem he could not solve. His cat is being accused of raiding neighbours' houses, attacking their cats and in some cases, dogs, and defecating/peeing on their beds. He is having to replace a mattress and pay for a catdoor in the process. This started in...

It has been a truly terrible day, though not so much for me personally. I woke up to find puddles of blood all over the landing and rushed to search everyone for wounds. Nothing, so Had a closer look and it was very bloody urine. So another search. and I finally deduced it was Dushka, as I found...

My 14 year old Dushka peed blood all over the floor during last night, so we were off to the vet this morning. He has given her amoxicillin plus an anti-inflammatory and a pain injection. But he also suggested I feed her a spoonful of mashed up courgette (zucchini to Americans) every day for a...

I got bad news at the vet this morning when Wellington went in for his senior panel and IO got a diagnosis of diabetes. His glucose and fructose levels were way out of scale. So now I have a lot more research to do and he has to have a special diet of course and two insulin injections every day...

After 10 years of work my garden is finally beginning to look like I want it. This is the rental cottage

I rented my cottage last weekend to a lady who was organising a bridal shower and they wanted to hold it in a beautiful location. All the guests were quite local to me, but she said that some of them would stay over, and asked if they could bring extra floor mattresses. I said the cottage only...

One of my new fosters was spayed by the adoption society before she was brought to me. It was a spay-abort, apparently quite late. She has recovered fine, the scar is not as bad as I feared it might be, and all is well. But she has been left with a very pronounced loose lower belly, far more...

On Saturday afternoon I got a call from our mayor, to say she had a black cat that had arrived in her garden the previous day and was following her around meowing. She wanted me to go pick it up. I already have two strays in the house looking for adoptive families, so this was not welcome news...