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My chronic constipation/possible megacolon kitty Echo was on Miralax and Cisapride. Even with a high dose of Cisapride, she often went 2-3 days of no bowel movement and then sometimes would go multiple times in a day. I tried to not be too concerned about the frequency as long as she seemed to...

Honestly, when to make that decision is different for everyone and everyone is about what you are comfortable with. For me and my husband, we are most comfortable with when they stop being themselves and are obviously debilitated. We had to make that decision in May for our 17yo cat Echo. She...

My Echo had constipation for most of her life but the last year of her life was awful. She was never officially diagnosed with megacolon but definitely had a pretty significant motility issue. She was on 1/2 tsp Miralax and occasional lactulose. There are a lot of mixed reviews on Cisapride but...

Looks like it could be feline acne.

We did not have her retested for anything. Our regular vet said he wasn’t even sure it was uveitis, especially because according to the rescue, her eyes never seemed painful.

She is doing well. I took her to our normal vet on Monday and he stained her eyes. He said both corneas are healed and it will just take time for the cloudiness to go away but it might just stay like that. The main thing is that it is not causing her pain. We brought both girls home a week ago...

Poor baby! I hope she starts feeling better soon. The weird thing with Luna is that it doesn’t seem to bother her at all. She acts normal and her eyes don’t seems painful. In the past few days her right eye is looking much better but her left still looks bad. She sees the vet on Wednesday so we...

She already saw a vet and was diagnosed with uveitis. It was that vet who changed the drops and said she needed to see the other vet. Her eyes were sealed shut a few days before we met so the original drops must have helped some, at least for the discharge. It is weird that they don’t seem to...

Since we lost our sweet Echo in May we have known we wanted to add 2 kittens to our home to join our remaining cat. We went to a local rescue on Saturday and fell in love with 2 girls; a 1yo tortie (Leia) and a 15w old gray and white kitten (Luna). They were sharing a cage and were both sweet...

I have now had 2 hyperthyroid cats. We used the transdermal with Echo. She did great with the application (thought it was just an ear massage) but unfortunately I think there were dosing inconsistencies with it and we had a horrible time trying to control her T4. But it was on only option with...

I have the washable Ruggable rugs and love them! I vacuum them and throw them in the washer and dryer quite often due to 2 vomit-prone cats and 2 young kids. A big bonus for me is also that my cats aren’t attracted to using them as scratchers, which is what used to happen with every other rug I...

Echo was on Mirataz daily for a few months and now has it every few days. She is also on transdermal methimazole so lots of ear goop for her. The transdermals don’t seem to irritate her ears but I do notice the Mirataz does not seem to be quite as effective when I have slacked off on cleaning...

Definitely not good to give an appetite stimulant with nausea. We found that when Echo is nauseated, the appetite stimulant makes her beg for food but she still won’t eat. I have started keeping Cerenia on hand for the times that happens (usually when her suspected IBD is flaring up.)

Echo has H-T and stage 2 CKD and her appetite is definitely up and down. She seems to eat well for 3-4 days and then not so well for 1-2 days. If she goes more than 36 hours of low appetite, I give her Mirataz which I hate because she becomes so restless and loud. The vet told me it’s not...

Just a personal anecdote: When my cat was 2, she had bloodwork done and it came back indicating early kidney disease (she also has one kidney smaller than they other.) The vet had us try to put her on a renal diet but she would not eat it so we gave up. Her recheck 6 months later, showed her...