Recent Content by JackieF

Really great suggestions, Lutece! I appreciate hearing from someone with experience — thank you!

In 2-3 months, I will probably be moving across the country (within the US) with my 15-year-old cat. Logistically, it makes much more sense to fly instead of spending 3 days driving. He will presumably hate any method of transport. I have so many questions and concerns! He has multiple...

Just an update — Maude does not pay attention when his vet says he is very sick and likely to die soon. Maude does wish, however, that I would take the hint and stop taking him to the vet. He has resumed eating his canned cat food at the usual rate, although he is not interested in most of the...

Maude saw the vet yesterday for an exam and labs. His SNAP fPL came back abnormal again, so they said it was pancreatitis. The only other time he’s had that test was at the start of his major illness in late January, so I don’t know whether it’s has stayed abnormally high all along. His...

Thank you, BCO, for those articles - they were indeed very helpful. Of course you and SAW are correct — Maude does need to see his vet, and it certainly could be a different problem entirely. We have an appointment tomorrow morning. (I’ve been a nurse for 20 years, so I can’t help trying to...

Thanks for this! Our vet didn’t really devote much effort to finding a cause for the initial bout of pancreatitis, just did as you noted and considered it idiopathic . The ultrasonography is supposed to be pretty skilled, however, and on all 3 exams nothing unusual showed up in the surrounding...

This is long, sorry! Skip ahead to the final 2 paragraphs if you don’t need all the context. ;) My sweet, easy-going 14-year-old neutered boy Maude went through a really rough time in January of this year. He stopped eating, was found to have pancreatitis (as well as asymptomatic heartworm...