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Purr-fect! Thanks ever so much! :hearthrob: :redheartpump: :hearthrob: :redheartpump: :hearthrob: Hopefully, just having the house back to ourselves again will be a huge step in the right direction re: Buddy's latest setback. He's a bit of a control freak about his daily routine, and got...

Is there anything new available that I can add to a jar of baby food to make it nutritionally complete during Buddy's all too frequent health setbacks? We've been using Food Fur Life for years for this purpose, and it has truly been a godsend for us to help tide Buddy over for a few days until...

Poor Ruby! I'm so sorry to hear that she suffers from this problem, but it does give me hope that we can eventually learn how to manage this for Buddy. The funny thing is, I did find a half eaten house gecko on the floor a while back, so I know Buddy is capable of eating during the night if he...

I'm afraid there's a pretty big gap between the last meal of the day, and breakfast the next morning. Buddy used to eat supper around 6 p.m., snack throughout the night, and eat breakfast around 6:30 a.m. Now that he's not eating much during the night, I've been feeding him around 9 p.m...

Cool! That makes me feel much better. :) I was afraid that maybe I had gotten into the habit of feeding Buddy on a similar schedule merely for my convenience, and not necessarily what was in his best interests. And staying up a bit longer for an 11 pm feeding time sounds like a good idea. I...

I used to feed Buddy canned food three times a day, and leave some low-carb/high protein dry food out for him as a bedtime snack, which he'd nibble on throughout the night. But now that he has lost interest in that food and only eats a tiny bit during the night, he has started to throw up a...

Warming his food hasn't helped that much, although we continue to do it anyway. And food and water are always available to Buddy at a height where he can just walk up to his bowls and eat or drink without having to lower his head, or we feed him from a spoon. Honestly, I'm just so frustrated...

Thanks much! It has always been a challenge to get Buddy to eat, and most of the tips and tricks that work for other cats don't work for him because his sense of smell was pretty much shot by the time we took him in. But for many years, we were able to get around that by smearing food on his...

Cool! Thanks! Unfortunately, I think I'm one of the major stressors in Buddy's life, as it seems I'm always having to do something to him that he doesn't like, even if it is for his own good. Thankfully, he gives me plenty of opportunities to redeem myself, by demanding pets, long brushing...

Well, usually, he absolutely adores boxes, and puts up quite a fuss if we have to drag him out of them! I've given up on buying him cat furniture, as he's much happier with Amazon boxes. :lol:

Just a dumb question... If I can get one of the vets at the clinic to reconsider about the nebulizer, what could you recommend we use instead of a carrier? Would draping a towel over a box suffice? Buddy is still traumatized by his last trip to the vet's office, and is terrified of the carrier...

I honestly wouldn't mind doing whatever it takes to use a nebulizer, including any maintenance and whatnot. Unfortunately, our vet isn't open to the idea. He said to just use steam treatments (e.g., closing the bathroom door and running the shower for as long as the hot water lasts) and...

Yeah, we've also provided those, but he's not interested in eating his meals from any of them. Guess he likes that purrsonal touch of us feeding him by hand. :dunno: However, he's usually willing to eat his bedtime snack off a little Corelle plate we place on an improvised elevated platform...

Buddy has some structural damage to his sinuses that make it difficult for them to drain properly, and chronic allergies and inflammation just makes matters even worse. One of his problems seems to be that his sinus issues make it too uncomfortable or painful for him to lower his head enough to...

Thanks much for the link! I'll run over there and check it out and see if there's anything that we've overlooked. :) It is disappointing when the vets won't prescribe anything to help stimulate Buddy's appetite, but again, I suppose I can see their point. It's not that he isn't hungry. He...