Recent Content by brokenheart

Any chance you could keep your cat as an indoor cat?

I'm so glad it turned out okay!! And using a nail cutter was so smart.

Can you snip the rubber band with a small scissors? Be sure to shield your and your cat's eyes. I'm just guessing, I've never had to do this. You can kind of sneak up when the cat is sleeping. I had to do that to clip one of my cat's claws.

Hi, can a totally indoor cat who is the only pet in the home get worms or fleas? There are no mice for her to eat, either. Thank you!

FurryPurry, that's a great idea! That's how my mother took her heart med. I will find out, thank you so much.

Turns out what he's been getting is the chicken flavored. I'm going to try another flavor, but I'm not so hopeful now; it may be the underlying medicine is just too bitter to cover up.

Thank you! I just got off the phone with my cat's vet and there is a local pharmacist who can make it chicken-flavored! So I'm going to try that. Poor Sebastian, I wish I had known this from the start - but hopefully this will go over much better with him. Thank you, everyone, for your advice...

Brian, thank you, I'll look into that.

Donutte, Where do you go to have meds compounded into a treat? I didn't even know that was possible! Thank you so much for all the tips. Hopefully, there will be another med he can take. He'll still hate it, just because he hates taking meds, but at least maybe he won't hate me anymore...

It's Diltiazem. I'm so sorry about your Lucky. My cat's name is Sebastian. Up until the vet put him on this medication, he was a happy cat. He'd usually hang out with me - especially since my other 17 year old cat who was my shadow died in June - now he hides. He did the daily zoom thing. And...

The vet put my 17 year old cat on heart medication, which he despises. To me, it just smells very vaguely like celery, but it must taste awful to him and it makes him drool like crazy. I got him as a rescue when he was 1 and it took a long time to get him to trust me. In his old age, he turned...

mrsgreenjeens The transdermal med is a GREAT idea - I know they have them for human heart patients - i'll ask my vet, thanks!!!

I called the vet's office and the vet said it's okay to give him just one dropper of heart med at double the dosage, so that helps (me) a lot. He's going to hate it anyway......

Has she been tested for tapeworm?

My 17 year old cat whom I love to pieces started on heart meds today. He's supposed to get two daily doses. He already gets a couple of doses of a med to help him not have rock-hard stools that he can't pass. I'm waiting on his kidney results (the vet already knows he has kidney disease but has...