Recent Content by TikkaBeer

Hey everyone, I have some sad news to share. Our beloved cat Tikka passed away Thursday morning after her battle with mammary cancer, which had spread to her lungs. I couldn’t even write this the day of, have just been slowly rolling out these notices, between thinking about her and missing her...

Hard to say since I can’t see under her while she’s sitting there, but there may have been a moment a felt something warm down there similar to liquid seeping

There have been a two incidents in the past month where, after sitting on my lap, Tikka left a wet spot about two inches wide. It seemed to be clear/watery, without a strong smell or any coloring. Based on this and the way she was sitting, we eliminated a few possibilities: urine, drool, anal...

Does anyone have any tips for giving a potassium supplement? We tried adding it to food, but our cat doesn’t seem to want to eat it. I saw an older post that said a compound pharmacist could create a transdermal gel for us. Anyone have experience with this? Our cat currently has low body weight...

Like Fiona’s mom mentioned, Tikka takes chlorambucil for her IBD/SCL. She also takes prednisolone 2.5mg daily, cerenia 8mg as needed (but giving daily these days). For UTI prevention, she takes 1/8 tsp d mannose every day, and for her joints she’s taking cosequin daily. So far they have not...

Yes, Tikka is still on the chlorambucil on a pulsed dosage (every two weeks). Good memory! That did worry our local vet a bit, if the tumor is aggressive enough to grow despite the chlorambucil. Tikka is 17 now, but she is still plenty active. We are at the vet now, and both the oncologist and...

So sorry to hear about your previous experiences, that’s so scary to lose someone that quickly.

Hi everyone, we received some bad news about our older cat Tikka. Two weeks ago, we brought Tikka in to our local vet due to slight increased thirst/urination, since we were worried about onset diabetes. While doing her usual examination, our vet discovered a growth on near her lower mammaries...

Our cat was given covenia on Thursday because he had a red mark on his chin and swelling. However, there still appears to be a bump on his lip and redness on his chin even after 2-3 days. See pic, right in the center of his bottom lip. Is this normal for the healing to take a while, or does it...

Thanks for both of your replies. We will continue to provide updates as we try different things. Yes, Rory is neutered. Unfortunately, they did not do a urinalysis during the recent visit, since we brought him in for a separate issue. Usually nothing abnormal has shown up on them in the past...

We are having an issue with our cat Rory where he keeps on spraying pee in inappropriate places with increasing frequency. For context, he often sprays when using the litter box. He sometimes gets attacked by our other cat in the litter box, which most likely increases stress. However, this...

We have two vets, our local one for regular visits, and an internist who did the ultrasound. We are leaning towards calling our local vet tmrw to see what they think, since they were closed today. He hasn’t thrown up or displayed symptoms since the head bobbing, but that might be because we gave...

They were previously on the z/d + novel protein diet, but then we transitioned off of it since Rory was doing well. We also don’t know what specific irritant it was that the special diet helped with, or if it was something unrelated to the food entirely (ie pancreatitis). Does that clarify...

Our cat Rory has been having issues with periodic vomiting since last summer. On October 22, he had a high Spec fPL value (4.0, range: 0.0-3.5), though ultrasound did not show signs of pancreatitis. On the recommendation of our vet, this winter we placed him on a food sensitivity diet (Hill’s...

Based on videos we saw, it doesn't seem like hiccups alone. There is definitely discomfort as well, since she hunches over. Acid reflux sounds possible, we will do more research on that front. Our vet saw the same video that we posted. We hadn't heard of ondansetron before, that's good to know...