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This. I work in a vet clinic and our medical director is a properly trained acupuncturist. I have seen genuine results from it. If she’s set on continuing it, I would just make sure the person she’s taking the cat to is an actual veterinarian who specifically learned feline acupuncture. Your...

I got her to eat about half a jar of baby food. She wouldn't touch the kibble mixed into it. She also approached my other cat's food and smelled it, but walked away. She used the litter box afterwards. She's acting feisty but that's pretty normal for her. I'll continue monitoring her. I get off...

I actually was in the hospital recently, and I have been away often since I got out because I'm playing catch-up. I should be returning to my normal schedule tomorrow. I was the one who noticed she didn't touch her food, while my roommate reported she threw up. Shes been sleeping and hiding a...

Thank you so much. When I opened the jar of baby food she did sniff it, but didn't try licking it until i rubbed some on her mouth. she's easily agitated and didn't like that very much, but it did get her to eat a little. I'll give her some more baby food w/o mixing it w cat food at her normal...

Hi all, My younger cat, Moxie, seems to have a stomach issue, my roommate says she's thrown up and she hasn't touched her food all day yesterday or today. She's turning 4 this spring and has never had any issues with eating before, she is normally highly food motivated. Out of desperation and...

Yeah, that was my other main concern - i wanted her to have the *full* benefit of the clavamox and that obviously wasn't happening if she was hacking it right back up. I know about antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria and i know with cats its VERY important to try your best to finish the...

Oh this is all so helpful to have. Invaluable information I can save and refer to for any cat now or in the future, thank you so much!

Fortunately I got her to eat some wet - she doesn't eat a whole lot of wet as much as i try but i do keep a stock of the rx cans for emergencies that i forgot about, one was a brand i didn't try before because she didn't used to like fish. She kept it down so crisis averted for now. Yes, they...

So my cat Autumn, who is 13 years old, had some incidental findings during her routine physical at the end of August. She ended up having proteinuria with a protein/creatinine ratio value of 7, but her urine culture also came up positive, so my vet is treating the infection with a 3 week course...

The town I live in requires cat licensing that gets renewed yearly and requires proof of a three-year rabies vax regardless of whether or not they go out, and my other senior kitty is very wily and loves to sneak out through any means necessary (one time she clawed through a four inch thick...

Much better today - ate her breakfast and woke me up to demand lunch. HL is a major fear of mine because she's an older, overweight kitty, though she is finally losing weight on the diet regimen I put together, so hopefully I'm bringing her risk down some. I will let you all know what the vet...

I recently posted another thread about my cat's inappropriate urination, but now I have questions about something else. So, I took my 12.5 year old cat, Autumn, to the vet Thursday because of peeing outside the box as she has a history of FLUTD, they did bloodwork, took urine, and updated her...

Vet is closed Wednesday, which I forgot. Already quite upset, I'm trying to sleep after my shift and she leaked some urine onto my bed. :( I'm afraid I might have to "quarantine" her out of my bedroom until this stops - I *just* did my laundry, have no other clean sheets and cannot afford to...

Yeah, that was why I mentioned it - I really think that's probably the culprit, and having to eat the "house" food from my kennel (not a bad food but VERY rich according to my boss) for a few days probably didn't help. She's very in-tune with me, if I'm off so is she. Lots of stress for me...

Hi all, My cat, Autumn, is 12 1/2, and was diagnosed with FIC/FLUTD about 3 years ago. Well, there's been a sudden change in her behavior - for the first time in her life, she is starting to pee on my clothes and other soft, cloth items. At first I thought it was because my work clothes smell...