Recent Content by vardnas

Hi there. Title is pretty self-explanatory. I have a 16 year old cat who, with fair regularity, will wake up with a jump, startled and meowing. It can be dead quiet, too, so she’s not being woken up by a loud noise or anything. If I’m close enough to her, I’ll put my hand out and she’ll give it...

I got the next available appointment with her vet. Thanks all for your comments!

Her previous owners were great with her. They're a couple, and the woman had had her since she was a kitten, so they were quite close. She's been fully fine with pets from me the entire time I've had her, just recently has this become a problem.

I've been wondering the same, actually. Given her age, it wouldn't be too strange of her to develop new health concerns. It is about time for her annual check up, anyway, so it may be a good idea to get in a bit earlier.

No, she's indoor only. I work from home mostly, but come and go from the apartment for occasional in-office days or socializing. It's just the two of us here.

I have a 15-yr old cat who I adopted from her previous owners about a year ago. She is generally very sweet in disposition, always wanting to be in the same room as me, and a big fan of lap time and things like head scritches. The only time she gets at all feisty is when I accidentally touch her...

They’re fully weaned at this point onto wet and dry food. They just like to occasionally suckle on mommy, probably more for comfort than anything. And my mom chose to leave her at the vet to recuperate for a few days precisely because the kits like to follow mama around and lay on her and...

Newest issue: The kittens are just shy of nine weeks. We got mama spayed a few days ago and we picked her up today. She seems fine with the kittens, and maybe a bit more aloof than in the past, but they’re less desperate to be with her all the time or nurse, either. The issue we’re currently...

Hello, me again. Well, our kits are seven weeks now, weaned and healthy and very rambunctious. Three of them do just fine with the litter box and have no trouble eliminating. The fourth one, though, just refuses to use the box. We have two set up in their nursery with pee pads underneath them...

Hi, it’s me again. Kits are now on the verge of 5 weeks old, and I’m wondering if anyone has some words of encouragement around weaning? They’ve been gnawing quite a bit on their bottle nipples and just generally being fussy when we try and feed, so we’ve been offering wet kitten food mixed...

Hi, no she’s not, so we’re bottle feeding them. She did move them from their regular crate a couple of hours ago because she didn’t like how close we were, but we fed them in the new environment, and she was totally fine to let us do so. We were just in the living room to give them some privacy...

The last time I updated, mother cat had mastitis, and we’d separated the three week old kittens last weekend so mama could recover. We reintroduced them today after about a week apart. Mama took to the babies right away, and groomed each one in turn and got all their bums. However, it’s been...

They’re coming back on Saturday, so they will have been separated for a week, and will be four weeks old when they return, so just at the beginning of weaning time. Would be great if she’s willing to teach them manners and cat behavior, even if she can’t nurse.

Hello, another update here. It’s been a long week. Mama had been taking antibiotics, the fever was down, she was nursing fine, then on Friday we noticed that she kept licking the same spot on her side. We turned her over and apparently the mammary gland or the point of infection where the milk...

Hi, sorry for the long delayed update. Sunday morning mama was asking for food and laying to nurse, so we held off on taking them to the vet, but we took her in this morning because she developed a fever overnight and didn’t eat. Mama’s got mastitis and home now with antibiotics and medication...