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Snuggling on a cold winter's day

My favorite picture of my girls ever!

Thank you all so much for all the suggestions! I wrote this thread and then broke down and cried for a good long bit. I think I'm just really overwhelmed because of Contessa's recent diabetes diagnosis and now Juliet is making my life difficult. Buying all of these different foods is also...

Juliet has been picky about food pretty much the entire 2 years I've had her but lately her pickiness is off the charts and driving me absolutely insane. There are days where I just want to throw in the towel and exclusively feed her the dry food that I know she'll eat but I'm trying so hard not...

My cat Flakes had SCC. He had a long history of tooth problems and had several teeth removed in the last year of his life. I do not blame the dental cleanings or the dental extractions. That's very illogical IMO. Why on earth would a cleaning cause cancer? An infection, maybe. But cancer? I...

Thank you! I haven't given them the antibiotics yet and I think I'll hold off until I call the vet and talk to her about it. I think I'll ask that question first. If symptom-free is good enough, I'll hold off on the antibiotics and try the s. boulardii and if the diarrhea gets going again, then...

How would I tell if they were through it? Their new food has firmed up their stool so they aren't having diarrhea right now. I guess we could do another PCR test to verify? But then if it comes back with it again we'll have to do the antibiotics anyway and maybe even another PCR to verify. Ugh...

We got the results back. Both cats tested positive for bacteria in their stool. Of course they called my husband who was working at the time and he didn't have the chance to write down the name of the bacteria but I'm guessing it's clostridium and he said "that sounds right." (super helpful...

Thank you, definitely going to get this test run.

My husband brought both cats to the vet today since Juliet started having some issues too. The vet gave him a list of what their PCR test covers, is there anything missing from there that we need to test for? If not, I think we're going to try that. Campylobacter coli, Campylobacter jejuni...

Thanks! I really wish the vet could see her but the vet shortage is hitting hard around here. Hopefully we can get things under control at home.

The rescue said they were around 5 years old. We've had them for 2 years so I assume around 7 now. It definitely felt like the Fortiflora helped because the difference was stark. Like she was having very sticky, mushy poops (5, trending towards 6 on this fecal scoring chart) and the next day...

Contessa started has been having soft stool for awhile. I took in a VERY fresh stool sample (like I put it in a bag 2 seconds after she pooped and ran it over the to vet lol) a couple weeks ago and they found no parasites. Our vet can't get us in for weeks so we decided to try Fortiflora. At...

I gave them a small amount, like a tablespoon of it, with their regular food. They gobbled everything up and then they threw up about 30 minutes later. I haven't had the heart to try again, I figured if they got sick with that small of an amount, there's probably something with it that just...

This food made both of my cats sick. They threw it all up about half an hour after eating. I was so sad because it seemed like a great food but it obviously doesn't mesh well with my cats. :(