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Just to be clear, I was holding the crate in such a way where the opening was at the top, so the whole structure was facing vertically up. So the butt-first finagling wasn't pushing her in so much as lowering her into the opening (unsuccessfully). Ooh. Good to know — thank you! We've been...

I'm going to look up a cat holster. Is that like a harness? Or is that an actual product name? I'll also try actually putting her food in there too. You're right that one cat can be very different than another, but at this point, since we're starting from scratch with this girl in many ways...

Thank you for the advice. Standard front loader that we have is gigantic — probably mid-size dog size. The door itself is about as large as (if not larger) a cat top-loader. Maybe I just haven't found the right one yet...

Thanks for the tip. I've wondered about that, but most of the top loaders that I've looked at actually have a more narrow opening than the front door of the extra large standard carrier (like beagle size) we already have. Maybe I just need to search around some more...

Thanks so much for all this helpful feedback. I'll look into that other thread as well. I will have to ask them again about some Gabapentin. I'd inquired about it before, bit they said they don't encourage sedating animals in advance since the meds can bring significant risks. I know Gaba is a...

She's a gorgeous wounded girl, chock-full of emotional baggage and trust issues, but deserves to be loved. She's our little Holly Golightly kitty. (In this case, the cat is Holly, not the other way around.) ;)

Within the past year, my two beloved geriatric cats (litter mates) died. It was brutal. I had them since they were kittens, and they were so cooperative and docile. I was therefore spoiled/naive in my expectations from cats. They let me bathe them, clean their ears and teeth, check their...

He was diagnosed with CKD. We're still waiting on the urine culture to come back to see if that might have falsely elevated his creatinine, but since he's been so thirsty and losing weight for months now, and his CREA was all the way at 5.0, I'm supposing this is the main beast.

Thank you. Gus was diagnosed with CKD, which honestly, I expected to be one of the possibilities (the others being hyperthyroidism or diabetes). Unfortunately his numbers are at the highest margin of Stage III, so I'm not sure how much longer we'll have. I'll be starting at home sub-q this week...

I'm so sorry for the months long reply. The end result was too painful that I couldn't bring myself to revisit. Poor Liz continued to lose intravenous potassium like it was through a sieve. I spoke with multiple vet's at the clinic (who in turn, had spoken with an internal medicine vet in a...

Gus is a 16-year-old cat with a variety of mounting health issues I will share in another thread I'm pondering about when to choose home-based palliative care for a cat that is terrified and traumatized by vet visits, and also often ends up with stress-related UTIs after them. For now, even...

Yikes! Somehow I just deleted my entire post. Paragraphs... Oh. My. Goodness. *facepalm* Stay tuned. Abbreviated recap coming soon...

Oh, and I forgot, four years ago, be had a bout of chronic pancreatitis that caused constant vomiting. Back then, with our vet input, we managed with prednisone, pepcid, and sub-q fluids for about a week. He still had occasional pukes, but made it past the worst.

I don't even know where to begin. I'm still grieving the loss of my 15 year old cat, Liz, who I posted about on here a few weeks ago. It so gutted me that I couldn't even return here to update yet or post on the rainbow bridge page. I was still deeply devastated I needed time. Instead, I'm...

Her thyroid test came back clear (we were actually hoping for that as it would at least be treatable). Given her unaccounted for high blood pressure last year and the recently revealed heart murmur last night, they are thinking it is likely hyperaldosteronism (adrenal gland tumor), and we are...