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Ming is finally back home! I'm still trying to deal with his diabetes and finding the right dose (which is ever-changing as you know if you have a cat with diabetes). He's also on steroids now which is a big no-no for diabetics but Ming's been through too much and it was time to try the...

I'm "eh" about babies. I don't know how to hold them. Same with dogs sometimes. I didn't know how to pet them. But I've had to be around more dogs in the last few months because of my new job at a clinic and I'm BEGINNING to like SOME dogs. I don't like all dogs. But I like all cats. Even the...

Any wet food is fine. Of course, if you want the best, I'd do more research on better quality foods. If you'd like, I can give you a few links but it can get quite overwhelming honestly. There's lots of different ways people feed their cats. For example, I feed my cat set meals 3-4 times a day...

The vet clinic I work at: we do rabies vaccines in the right hind sub q and distemper in the left. I remember it's in case the vaccine causes a sarcoma so that the leg can be amputated. There's one vaccine that can be done subq but I forgot what it was. (I just started as a vet assistant three...

What did the internal medicine specialist do for Inky? And I’m sorry to hear about your dog :( I think everyone is very cautious about the steroids here. He’s was on half a tab of 2.5 mg for two days. So he got 2.5 mg of pred in total. Last night, Ming’s BG stayed in the 20s unfortunately and...

Thank you @Mamanyt1953 and @Furballsmom! Yes, we do have something like that in my area and we were going to bring him there for emergency treatment if he wasn't doing well on Wednesday. But he's responding to treatment. I think the internal medicine specialist is kind of like the equivalent of...

Hi everyone :) This post will be loooong. And what I'm really hoping for by posting Ming's situation is to gather input from everyone since everyone has had different experiences with their cats. I love the cat community and I think it's incredible the amount of knowledge there is amongst us...

Hi everyone. I thought I'd just give an update: I spoke to the more experienced vet and she said no, the high lipase is definitely from the pancreatitis and not food. Ming is still in hospital. It's been a whirlwind but I think we're going in the right direction. I may decide to post Ming's...

Ming has a slew of issues at the moment. He's in the hospital right now getting treated for pancreatitis. He's diabetic, has chronic pancreatitis, and now he is most likely asthmatic too. Vet is confirming with the ultrasound/radiograph specialist but it's pretty clear to them that there's...

Yes, he'll eat the meat if I offer. It does take a bit for him to figure it out but he'll eat it eventually. I guess I'll keep offering him the wings cut up and in different varieties of meat and bone :)

Wow! From the very mouth that feeds us (regarding the Primal site)! I might be more relaxed then with how long I leave out his food. I feel bad that his food is butt-cold when I serve it so it would be nice for it to be at room temperature.

Hello! I haven't been on this site in ages! I loved TheCatSite and was online all the time. Anyway... I recently was successful in transitioning my cat to frozen raw. Right now, he eats the frozen pork nuggets from Primal plus the freeze dried versions when I'm not able to watch him eat as I...

That's a good perspective. Thank you! I'm just so afraid of vets who ask for blood tests just to get money. For instance, my friend's dog was coughing and they just asked for a blood test... and then when that did nothing, asked for an x-ray. When my cat was coughing, I did an X-ray right away...

Whoa!! That IS wonderful!

Sorry, they're actually called an animal hospital. But I didn't know that clinic typically meant cheaper! To me, I will do whatever in my power to treat my cat and if that means spending $400, then fine. But it's really about not wasting money. So I'm not really looking for a cheaper vet but a...