Recent Content by taryn

Thank God!! I'm so happy for you!!!!  I just lost another cat to FeLV earlier this week. She's the 7th we've lost to FeLV in the past 18 months. This disease is horrible. Taryn

I thought I was done with deaths related to FeLV, but I was wrong. We lost Attitude and Nuts' mom Biter, who was maybe 4 years old to FeLV, a year after we lost Nuts, at 2 years old, who was the last of her 9 kittens. The only FeLV cat we have left is Mama who we know is at least 5, Biter's mom...

We had to start him on Miralax since he hadn't pooped since he got back from the vet except for a tiny little amount(less than what a normal cat poops). We gave him 2 doses the day before yesterday and yesterday and there was finally a normal amount of poop(for him) in his litter box this...

OK, vet said it wasn't megacolon yet but it will end up as that if we don't take care of this now. She gave us 12 cans of I/D which she says will lessen the amount of waste he puts out(unlikely, he'll just poop less often now I'm sure, he never poops unless it's a huge amount every few days.)...

I'm not sure if many people remember me since I haven't been on recently since Nuts passed away. After Nuts passed on we got Sirius, who is thankfully very healthy(Nuts and his sister Attitude both had FeLV.) He has never pooped daily, since we got him about 13 months ago, usually going every...

I joined ancestry. com to find out about my family. I'm not using real names, one because one of them is still alive and their names aren't important, plus this is my family after all and I feel like 'protecting' them. I knew bits and pieces of my mom's dad's side of the family(I knew his...

One of my ferals. He was found today and he'd been hit by a car, I'm guessing he had been hit sometime overnight as I had seen him just fine the day before. He wasn't doing well, he had been increasingly cranky and we were going to have to take him to the vet to be checked out and most likely...

No straining, no signs of discomfort, he has no probloem hopping the gate to get into the bedroom and will run from the dog if he feels like a game of chase. Like I said I have noticed this since we got him(late June.) He did poop today which was 2 days earlier than usual so he might be getting...

They seem to be getting along and were even willing to share the couch. As you can see they have settled very nicely together. Edited to add: Sirius' bald spot on his tummy is from a sore he had when the rescue took him, the hair hasn't grown back yet. Taryn

Sirius only poops once a week. It is a large amount, and it's well formed but still it's only once a week. Is this normal or do I need to take him to the vet? He is fed only wet food and he sometimes(rarely) snacks on cheap dry food. I'm trying to get him to snack on ToTW but he eats so little...

Unless you can see(on short haired cats) or feel his spine vertebrae(which go the length of the tail as well) on both the back and tail(Sirius happens to have a very skinny tail so I think I'll always be able to feel his tail bones) the cat is at it's ideal weight. Sirius is filling out, he...

Sirius doesn't seem to care as long as it's a flavor he likes. He totally ignored the duck and chicken Feline Holistic Select I put out for breakfast, but scarfed down the chicken and quail 96% meat BG yesterday and the tuna 96% meat BG I gave him for dinner(all were pate.) The ferals happily...

Having had 2(up to 3) positive cats in a house with a negative adult cat I would never do it with a negative kitten in my house, that is way too risky, even with an adult it can be risky. Maude stayed negative but she was also 10 years old and we had her vaccinated against it in the past(years...

Mother cats tend to abandon babies that have things wrong with them so it is entirely possible that the kitten had problems that killed it(especially ifit was alone and didn't have siblings with it) and not the deworming. Kitten that small are very fragile and have a high mortality even with...

My 'free kittens'(they showed up on my porch at 4 weeks old with their moms and grandma, all ferals, we had 12 kittens total from them, 15 if you count the 3 from the one my neighbor took in) cost thousands of dollars in vet bills(well Attitude did, ironically enough Nuts was never sick a day in...