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    Indoor Cat ate screen door -- WHY??

    Thanks for the response! I'm hoping that's what it is, too, since being outside is new to him but being around the other cats is not. We are going to buy a new screen door with glass on the bottom so that they can still look outside but can't claw through the screen. And we will look into...
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    Indoor Cat ate screen door -- WHY??

    Yesterday I came home 8:30PM to find that my 11 year old Vinny scratched/ate a softball size hole in my screen door and got out. Luckily my husband and I found him 2 houses away, but he is a strictly indoor cat and in the 4 years we've had him has NEVER wanted to go outside, even when we left...
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    Purina NF and diarrhea?

    I have tried the Meow Mix Pouches that have the "chicken/beef/ocean whitefish/etc in gravy" on the packet and Vinny turns his nose up at them. While Sherman goes nuts over them, Vinny would rather have nothing to do with it. He won't even eat a small treat of canned tuna! It's strictly dry...
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    Purina NF and diarrhea?

    Vinny will not eat wet food PERIOD. I tried Canned c/d, Canned Royal Canin SO, and regular grocery brands like Fancy Feast and Meow Mix -- he sniffs them and walks away. He won't eat anything BUT dry, so I don't have much of a choice. When I first had him on the canned diet, he went 2 - 3...
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    Purina NF and diarrhea?

    Or, I do still have my card to get Science Diet c/d from PetSmart -- should I just buy that instead? That's what the Emergency Vet prescribed for him in November, only in the canned that he won't eat. Would buying the dry be better?
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    Purina NF and diarrhea?

    Well, I'm toying with the idea of putting them back on Science Diet (regular indoor formula) because for the first almost 8 years of his life, Vinny didn't have a single problem while eating it. It was only when we got my other cat, and my financial status dropped dramatically, I started...
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    Purina NF and diarrhea?

    My vet recently put my cats on Purina NF dry because my Vinny has had chronic UTIs in the last year and refuses to eat a stitch of any kind of wet food (I tried Science Diet c/d, Royan Canin SO, and even the regular stuff from the grocery store...Fancy Feast and Meow Mix). Since they've been...
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    UTI Management -- Cosequin & Wet Food

    Last week I had to take my poor Vinny to the Emergency Vet (again) for a potential blockage and blood in his urine. The ER vet told me that while he was not blocked, he did have calcium oxalate crystals in his bladder and had a severe UTI. She catheterized him, flushed him out, and sent him...
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    Is "senior" cat food necessary?

    Vinny's never had senior blood work. My vet has never told me that he was supposed to have anything special done as he aged. In fact, at my last visit in April, when I suggested starting Vinny on senior food, he shook his head and told me he doesn't need it. Right now they're eating a mix of...
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    Is "senior" cat food necessary?

    I have 2 cats -- Vinny just turned 9 and Sherman will be 2 in August. They free feed dry food now and I can't put them on a strict feeding schedule as my husband and I work in retail and our shifts change daily. My question is -- is it necessary to put Vinny on "senior" cat food either now or...
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    Weird Eye Problem?

    I noticed something strange with my Vinny's left eye this morning. He won't open it all the way...when you look at him from far away it's almost open the whole way, but when I try to pick him up or get closer to him to look at it, he closes it completely but keeps his right eye open. He blinks...
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    Pooping outside the litter box

    As some of you may know, this has been an ongoing problem for me and my poor Vinny... For nearly a YEAR (since we got our other cat, Sherman), my Vinny has been sporadically pooping on our master bathroom rug (nowhere else in the house, not on the other bathroom rug, and would go in the box if...
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    Feeding from a "double diner?""

    I'm looking into getting a "double diner" or buffet for my cats to eat out of for a few reasons... 1) My Vinny's almost 9, and since he's not getting any younger I want to make it easier on him sooner rather than later to eat out of bowls that are elevated to relieve any stress it may...
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    How do I get a urine sample? Needed SOON!

    Well, I had absolutely no luck with getting a urine sample from Vinny. He's either too smart, or too dumb, to know better, haha. I first tried the garbage bag over the litter thing, and after being confined in the bathroom with that litter box and a bowl of water (I even gave him a whole can...
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    How do I get a urine sample? Needed SOON!

    I guess I'll just try the old clean-the-litter-box-and-pray method, hopefully the baggie or lid thing will catch what i need. I keep my litter boxes in our bedroom (odd i know, but without a basement and 2 relatively small bathrooms, I didn't have much of a choice!), so I can always just hang...
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