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    Cat not pooping/peeing day after being sick- am I overreacting?

    My cat Derby is a 3 year old female. Yesterday, she threw up several times (every time she tried to eat) and wouldn’t eat/drink. We gave her a little water with an oral syringe. She had a bit of diarrhea but otherwise didn’t poop or pee. Last night, she threw up a thin, inch long bug wing. It...
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    Show Me Your Home Made Litter Boxes!

    I followed this tutorial, and I love it. My two cats refuse separate litter boxes and I was struggling to find one big enough for them to both comfortably use. I nabbed a $5 tote from Wal-Mart, and it works like a charm! The cats had no trouble transitioning to it either, we just put it in...
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    I Made The Mistake Of Googling Cat Nosebleeds And Now I'm In A Panic.

    Update - our vet knows our cats well and knows that Jam is a little street fighter and Derby is a "delicate thing" who also rubs her face on everything she sees. He thinks Jam busted her nose when they fought Saturday and Derby is just reopening it when we get home because she gets excited and...
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    Eco-friendly Cat!

    We switched over to corn litter, we buy their food in bulk to cut down on wrappers/container waste, and we've stopped buying them toys/beds/anything we can make or recycle something for. You can also use a litter genie to cut down on the number of bags you go through scooping litter. We use...
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    I Made The Mistake Of Googling Cat Nosebleeds And Now I'm In A Panic.

    Thanks, guys! We're going to the vet at noon. She ate and drank this morning and is acting normally, so fingers crossed its just an injury.
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    I Made The Mistake Of Googling Cat Nosebleeds And Now I'm In A Panic.

    Starting this off with yes, we are going to the vet as soon as they open tomorrow morning. My cat had a sudden nosebleed Saturday night. We had been out for a few hours, came home, and she was fine. Five minutes later, she's bleeding out of her right nostril. It wasn't much and it only...
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    Cat Ate Turkey Fat And Some Foil

    I had turkey grease cooling on the kitchen counter, covered with foil. I went up to take a shower and came downstairs to the foil shredded and a greasy faced fat. I know that she definitely ate some of the foil to get to the grease, but I also know that she's definitely eaten worse than this...
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    Could This Kitten Have Brought Two Different Types Of Ringworm Home?

    The kitten we had here last month we had adopted, then had to give back to the hospital we adopted him from because they failed to inform us of his many, many health issues. Poor little guy needs to be in a one cat home so we couldn't keep him. When we brought him to our vet, he had over a...
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    Could This Kitten Have Brought Two Different Types Of Ringworm Home?

    To make a very long story short, we had a kitten in our home July 1- 19 who wound up having ringworm. He had the type that glows under a blacklight, and he was glowing bright green. I've had a ringworm patch on my arm for about 10 days, treating it with creams since day 3 when I realized what...
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    Sudden Skin Irritation Over My Kitten's Eye

    Help! My 12 week old kitten came to us one week ago. The week before that, he was at a foster, and for several weeks before that, he was quarantined at a vet with an upper respiratory infection and ear mites. Both were cleared up before he came to us, and he hasn't had contact with another...
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    Clearing Bowel Obstruction Without Surgery?

    Final Update - it's a blockage! Derby, who has never tried to eat something other than food, decided to eat what the vet thinks is a small plastic wrapper. My boyfriend and I both just got over bronchitis and laryngitis, so it's probably a cough drop wrapper. No concerns of it wrapping up in...
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    Clearing Bowel Obstruction Without Surgery?

    I'm sorry that this is bothering you so much. Please understand, I love my kitten like she's my baby, and this whole blockage experience has been deeply upsetting for me. The suggestion that I am in some way not providing appropriate care to my cat is even more so. I've done some more...
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    Clearing Bowel Obstruction Without Surgery?

    Thank you! Getting her x-ray now, I'm thinking good thoughts.
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    Clearing Bowel Obstruction Without Surgery?

    I also have some concerns that it may not be an obstruction. The x-ray looks exactly the way an obstruction would, but the "item" blocking isn't visible. It could be because it wasn't picked up by the x-ray due to whatever material it is made of. She started eating this morning and her...
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    Clearing Bowel Obstruction Without Surgery?

    She's never tried to eat anything other than food, so we have NO idea what it could be. She's having diarrhea, so it isn't a full blockage, and we've given her about 1/3 of her normal daily food intake and she hasn't vomited yet, so it has to be going somewhere. I'm hoping it's something small...
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