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I used to look after my neighbours deaf cat. I found the best way of letting him know I was there, if he was asleep or had his back turned to me was to blow gently on the nape of his neck, very gently though. Best Wishes Chris

And there it is, the stress and the sadness we go through with our beloved cats, but the joy and the laughter they bring into our lives, nothing compares with. I lost Dillon end of February, he was my companion for 20 years. We have had a cat for the last 35 years and this is the first time...

Dillon wouldnt have any of it, he was always a very fussy eater anyway. But he loved the Whiskas chicken renal pouches, he never got fed up with them. I was lucky with that, but he would pick sometimes and some days at more tit bits that the kidney food, he went on like this for 8 years after...

I dont know what the answer is for the urinary and kidney problems. My other cat Toby had the cystitus and was on the urinary food. Perhaps there is a food that will deal with both. If not, maybe doing half and half will help, Dillon only ate the kidney food half of the time, maybe trying to...

Dillons kidney disease started at around 12. He had been diagnosed with failing kidneys twice before that, when he was 7 and again a while later, the numbers both came back to normal after a week of antibiotics so it was a kidney infection the first two times. He was put on the kidney food...

He went back to the vets after about a week, but they didnt bother checking his bp, they said he was looking and acting well so that was that. To be honest, I am not sure they had a bp monitor in the surgery, that was local. When he had the funny turn it was out of hours and we had to take him...

He was on them for just under 2 years until he was nearly 20. If he had been younger I am sure the blood pressure tablets would have helped him for a lot longer, but he was getting other problems. I was not told about the slump by the vet, that is why I mentioned it to you. It is always scary...

I read once that you should ask your cats permission to talk to him and look him in the eye and tell him when his companion dies. I did this with Dillon (after all they had been together 15 years). We will never know if he understood but I felt he did. You have to ask for his permission first...

Dillon was around 18 when he got the high blood pressure, he may have had it a while before this. We only knew when he pulled his front leg upwards and fell sideways and we took him to the vet (we dont know if that was a mini stroke or something) We were then told that he had lost some of his...

Dillon and Toby lived together for 15 years then Toby passed away and Dillon got louder and louder for the rest of his 5 years! He seemed to think that if I left the room I wasnt coming back so I stayed with him as much as possible, he had his cushion next to me on the settee and once I sat...

Well Dillon made it to just under 20, he was diagnosed at 12 (somewhere around there). They first said he had kidney failure at 7 (then they put him on antibiotics and the numbers came back to normal, they said that this can happen with an infection). There was another time in between when the...

Dillon had very very high bp due to his kidneys. I didnt even know he had it, he was sleeping all the time. They put him on some tablets for humans, I had to cut them in quarters. The first ones I gave him, he slumped on the food tray and I thought he was dying, then I realized his blood...

Dillon used to freak out at the vet when he got older, he would hang on the window and try and get out! We got one of those carriers where the top lifts off and providing he stayed in the bottom part when the vet treated him, he was OK.

Sounds like they are nearly there to me. When Toby came into the house and Dillon got excited and jumped on him, Toby hissed every time Dillon got near him, Dillon kept testing him. As I said, in the previous post, I separated them for the first night, separate rooms, did the urine thing and...

Yes, I seem to remember Toby being on the antibiotics for quite a while and the diet permanently.