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    Cat Refusing to Eat

    I actually had A/D around as it’s part of my fosters diet and it was the first thing I tried with him- no go. I’ll run to the store and pick up some sliced turkey to try… I had very minor success this morning offering him his favourite stew C/D- he licked it but stopped when he got a chunk he...
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    Cat Refusing to Eat

    Hi All, Bear with me on the background- my sweet tuxie Beckett (7 yrs, neutered) has completely gone off his food since late Wednesday (3.5 days now…). He has always been an anxious soul and has FLUTD so he’s on a wet diet. He gets the vast majority of his water via his food as he rarely drinks...
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    Fostering Panleuk Survivor

    I live in northern rural Canada so vets/lab tests and shelter access to tests are quite limited unfortunately. I’m told he was tested for panleuk but the results came back ‘inconclusive’; however, as his brother died exhibiting all the signs along with secondary infections, I was directed to...
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    Fostering Panleuk Survivor

    I’m waiting on word back from the shelter on the deworming as that was my thought as well- I wasn’t there for intake so I don’t know if he was well enough at the time for them to do so. He doesn’t have worm belly but neither did my last foster litter and it was definitely worms with them so it’s...
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    Fostering Panleuk Survivor

    Hello knowledgeable cat friends :) I picked up a new foster a couple days ago and I’m looking for some ideas to help support this little dudes recovery from (suspected) panleukopenia. There were two litters of similar age dropped off from the same home- My foster and 2 other kittens were...
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    Advice on Adding a Third...?

    They’re six years old and both are in good shape (not too much extra Chonk on them as Beckett keeps them both rather active with his demands haha). Beckett likes to sit and wait for me outside the foster room but still hisses when he gets a visual on the kittens.
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    Advice on Adding a Third...?

    Hi All - just looking for some opinions on adding a third cat/kitten to my existing two. I'm at the tail end of fostering a queen and 5 kittens for our local shelter. One of the kittens (Spud) and I have connected quite strongly and I'm tempted to keep him. However, I'm concerned of the impact...
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    Newborn Supplemental Feed Guidance Needed

    Mama Cat (Anise)has been a challenging foster for me to read behaviourally. She clearly likes to be around people she knows but has a Dr.Jekyl/mr.Hyde personality when it comes to touch. I think she gets super overstimulated by it. She was spicy even before she had the babies but the litter...
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    Newborn Supplemental Feed Guidance Needed

    Hi folks- the dewormer cleared up everything within 48 hours so the kittens have been busy growing and learning! They are now five and a half weeks old. My next questions are weaning- they still have full access to mama and dry food is available 24/7. Wet food is offered 4x a day and all the...
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    Newborn Supplemental Feed Guidance Needed

    Update! The vet got back to me finally after 5 pm today- everyone’s getting strongid tomorrow. Hopefully that should clear things up. Taters is bouncing back and Russet has his energy back although he’s moved from nausea-weight loss-orange poo-weight gain-yellow watery diarrhea. Poor guy...
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    Newborn Supplemental Feed Guidance Needed

    The vet never got back to us (myself and the shelter) 🙁 Apparently they had 63 calls on their message machine (they don’t answer their phone directly anymore) so they just never got to us. I got called into work this afternoon and Taters was looking a little better so I left. When I got back...
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    Newborn Supplemental Feed Guidance Needed

    I hope they are too young for tapeworms - Mama was treated for roundworms so hoping it's not those either. I would be happy with zero worms really... I'm not sure what you mean by 'parasites and worms are not the same?' Worms (Hook, Round, Tape, Heart etc) are all types of parasitic worms...?
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    Newborn Supplemental Feed Guidance Needed

    Yeah I'm worried it's parasites as Mama cat was wormed when she got to the shelter but it didn't cover tapeworm and I thought I saw some potential bits of that...but the vet wasn't comfortable giving her anything more so late in her pregnancy. I was hoping to get everyone wormed at 2 weeks but...
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    Newborn Supplemental Feed Guidance Needed

    This is my sweet Taters. :( I stayed up last night and watched her heave again (Mama was very attentive) but I did see her have a decent feed before I went to bed. When I got up this morning, she's not doing well. It looks like she had several bouts of diarrhea last night (orange tinged) and...
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    Newborn Supplemental Feed Guidance Needed

    So weights are still all over the place but Spud finally gained weight again. (Thank goodness). Here I finally thought I could stop worrying about the little crew and was playing with them all after weighing when suddenly Taters out of nowhere starts crying in distress and then dry heaves...
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