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To those of you that have followed my often-nonsensiscal ramblings about my cats, we had to put our "Simon" to rest this morning. Simon was always been a bit of a problem child when it came to his health. Shortly after adopting him, he came down with the first of several Upper Respiratory...

I don't think he would've ate anything, as I generally keep everything out of his reach. I didn't notice any greenish tint thankfully, though I will keep an eye out. He played a bit more, ate a spoonful of wet food (that he has kept down so far; I'll give another in a little bit), caught him...

update: I got nervous and called the emergency vet (who has no business calling themselves 24-hour emergency care when they're only open 12 hours on weekdays, and don't open until noon on Saturdays), got redirected to their non-emergency offices. The tech said that vomitting and/or diarrhea...

Simon was due for the second dose of his Drontal dewormer tablets last night, so I smashed it and mixed it in with a small amount of food, just like last time. He had NO issues the first time, so I didn't really expect any issues this time either. This was at about midnight. At about 5 AM...

I love this advice. When my megacolon girl was nearing her final days and wouldn't eat, the vet literally told me to feed her whatever I could get into her and we could deal with the health ramifications of that later - it was more important that she didn't develop fatty liver on top of...

I actually am going through this with my guy as well. The first thing I'd recommend is getting your little one in to the vet for a couple basic tests - fecal float for potential parasites and a "deeper" look at the stool to test for things like Giardia. In the meantime, make sure you keep the...

My vet was out of office, so I settled for the "substitute" vet. This vet thinks that it is "unusual" that Simon would have roundworms since he is a purely indoor cat that has no contact with other animals (despite me pointing out that he could have gotten ahold of a bug that carried it in...

Simon has worms (likely roundworms, if Dr. google is correct). There really is no coming back from seeing worms moving in your cat’s stool :nervous: Symptomatically, he has had ZERO issues for a few weeks - seeing the worm was my first and only indication that we have a problem. I will be...

@TiggerTonks - hi there, I’m so sorry you’re in that position. unfortunately, we ended up euthanizing my Ally on 9/11/2018 when her megacolon worsened again (to be fair, we think she had also developed some kind of oral cancer at the end as well). It was a hard decision that I questioned - but...

Update: Spoke with the vet this morning, who confirmed that we've tried just about everything there is to try and that Simon's behavior is likely a behavioral/psychological issue more than a physical one at this point. He helped me see that we're at the point of "enough is enough" and that...

He's roughly 5-6 years old. We initially had a bunch of little toys to chew on - one was his "fishy" (that he subsequently threw up on, so it got tossed) and a bunch of those crinkly toys that we caught him trying to shove in his mouth in an attempt to swallow it whole (so those went too, as we...

@Furballsmom - Yeah, he's purely on wet food now (He hasn't even had any of the dry treats in awhile, not since his hunger really shot up and we started eliminating things trying to get to the cause; They're like kitty crack - Temptations knew what they were doing! :lol2: ). I'd say it was...

Update: Well, it's been a couple of days and had minimal success. If anything, he's worse now than he's ever been - He gets so restless when he's hungry to the point that he's now chewing on things like power cords which is as dangerous as it is destructive (We can't really hide them anymore...

@FeebysOwner - he’s currently getting three meals a day. I think we would just be splitting up the Hills in the morning and night as the fancy feast he gets mid-day is almost too much liquid and would be difficult (and messier) to try and separate. The vet says his weight is perfect for his...

That’s what we figure now, since when I was on the med (albeit a significantly higher dose), my dr told me it took 4-6 weeks to build to a therapeutic level in my system