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Thank you! The vet did not mention anything about the color of the urine when I got the results yesterday. I just now called and he said it could be dehydration or liver. I did the dehydration test with her skin, it goes down fast most of the way and then takes a couple seconds for the rest...

Thank you. That does make sense! I just figured that there must be a lot of blood in her urine since it's such a dark color that it for sure would show up on the dipstick, so that's why I was confused. Would blood make her urine turn such a color? From what I googled it looks like bilirubin...

Hi all! I have a quick question...is it possible for blood and wbc in urine to not show up on a dipstick but to show up during a urinalysis? My cat hasn't been feeling well so I got a urine sample yesterday, it was dark brown/amber. I did a dipstick test on it and everything was normal except...

Thank you for replying. :) I just got back from the vet because her stomach filled again. This time I requested the fluid to be sent out. I'm not sure why they didn't ask me the first time but this was another vet that saw her today. This vet gave me Furosemide and Enalapril. I requested...

Seems like each time I have had blood work on my cats, when they are obviously ill, they die soon after. :( No, my cat was not given any drug except biomox because he had a fever and runny nose, which cleared in a couple days. I think since his liver levels were normal the vet didn't give me...

Hi again everyone. Another one of my cats (14 y.o.) is very ill and I would like to get some help if possible. I noticed she was not eating much then gradually her belly appeared distended. A week ago, the vet did xrays and found she had fluid in her abdomen. She was dehydrated also. Her...

Thank you everyone. All of your comments and thoughts really helped. I'm trying to think of the happy days and that's making it better. Sadly another one of my cats is not doing well and that is taking up a lot of time and keeping my mind occupied. I will be posting a question regarding her...

Thank you, arouetta. I just feel as though I let him down, especially since his passing was so terrible. Had I called the vet 10 minutes earlier he would have been euthanized and I'm sure it would have been peaceful. My gut tells me he did end up with hepatic lipidosis from not eating and the...

Hi everyone. It's a very sad day for me since my 14 yr old cat died. About 2 weeks ago I noticed he was not eating well, I took him to the vet a couple days later. They tested his blood for pretty much everything and the only abnormal result was his rbc's, they came back at 4.6 and the range...

Thank you so much for your response.  I gave my kitty the subq about and hour ago.  The vet said to give 100 ml.   I wish I read your post beforehand, I would have done some things differently.  I will take you advice for tomorrow morning's subq. I was discouraged because my cat's skin had no...

I hope someone can help me, I'm a nervous wreck. My cat has a URI, he was acting lethargic, not eating or drinking so i took him to emergency this morning.  He would vomit after I gave him water. He was on amox. and I thought that was causing him to vomit.  He won't eat or drink on his own, I...

I guess I am now able to post an update.  Sadly, I had to have my kitty put to sleep on 11/10/14.  The swelling from his tumor first started to make his eye close, then the tissue grew completely over his eye.  He was still in good spirits though, no big change in behavior.  In the last weeks of...

Thank you so much everyone. I went in to the vet thinking for sure it was an abscess...all the signs pointed to that. So now I can only hope he was wrong or if it's a tumor then it's benign....or even just a cyst. It hasn't gotten any bigger than when we first saw it so hopefully it will...

Sad news. The other vet looked at the xray and also examined my kitty. He said that it's a tumor. Also, there was no reason to put him through the biopsy because it's either one of two types...osteosarcoma or another one that I forgot when I heard the news. He said 2 -3 months, that the...