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I find it odd that she has NEVER done this and now she does this all the time. In reference to there being another cat, I highly doubt that. We live on the top of a hill, quite a distance away from other houses. I've never seen another cat outside. I've seen plenty of deer, but no cats...

My cat has started a new behavior. I've had her for 5 years and never have seen this until the last couple months, but she's starting to hang her mouth open. I've read up on it and most things point to "smelling." She's not smelling. I feel pretty confident in that. First of all, nothing is...

Thanks for the replies... I've been continuing to wait and watch. I don't know. I really don't know why she would be anxious at home. She certainly is at the vet though. Unless surgery over a year ago was that traumatic? Things are calm at home, and she tends to scratch mostly at night...

This might seem a little long winded, I just want to get in all the details. Last summer, my 11 year old kitty had to have some teeth extracted. She's never done great at the vet, but nothing that seemed out of the ordinary. However, after the surgery, her stress levels in regards to the vet...

I went through this not too long ago myself. I wasn't ware of the concerns and gave her a few doses, then ultimately stopped after everything I read. I struggle to trust vets sometimes because there is money in it for them when it comes to certain foods and who knows what else. It's so...

My cat also recently started itchy like crazy. It was right after she had been to the vet numerous times following a dental procedure, so I thought it was ear mites or something. Took her to the vet, and the vet things it's a food allergy. I find it so odd though, because it was like...

Thanks for all the responses. I've gotten her onto Weruva chicken & Duck currently. She really liked it for the first few days, but seems to be losing interest in it a bit. She's such a finicky eater. I have a really hard time with her because she only eats tiny bits at a time. And I don't...

Just a follow up question about food rotation. Should I really focus on getting different proteins? I plan on alternating 4 if I can find that many she likes that meet what I'm looking for. But the majority of foods that meet the values I'm looking for, seem to be chicken. Or of chicken in...

Thanks, I'll have to look into that. It's not listed on the cat info spreadsheet, so I'd need to actually contact them to find the numbers for protein/fat/carb levels. I looked at that. The levels all seem to meet what I'm looking at. But one ingredient that seems odd to me is the...

So my cat has been having some constipation issues (which I posted a different thread about), and I started reading about food more and its impacts (no pun intended). And then I started reading about everything else food related. I rescued her when she was 7 and she ate dry food. I had a...

I totally hear what you're saying. And I'll try cutting back on the pumpkin, but this was an issue before the pumpkin entered her life. So I'm not sure if it's the cause? I do wonder if it's her food? She doesn't have any of the other symptoms though. Regular hardish stools, with an...

My 11 year old cat has had waves of issues with constipation (I believe). Two years ago, she was howling and rolling around so much that we took her to an emergency clinic in the middle of the night and that's what they believed the problem was. Since then, I will notice that maybe 3 times a...

No, it's a daily shot. She gave it to me for 5 days and then a re-check. Which means another traumatic vet visit for her. :(

The vet gave me a few options. There was the one that lasts for 14 days, but I feel like I didn't want to put her on something that would stay in her system for 14 days in case it didn't settle well. There was an oral one, and then the injectable Clindamycin. The vet was in favor of the...

I ended up not going to work on Thursday. She had just been so clingy, so I felt awful leaving her. She slept quite a bit that day, which I just assumed she was exhausted from not sleeping at all for two days and then only a little bit the day before. But then on Friday, when I woke up for...