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You did endoscopic biopsies. No real way they could perforate the intestines that way. If you had done full thickness surgical biopsies, then it could happen, but that doesn't happen often. And you have been seeing a specialist, right?
When endoscopic biopsies are done, the cat is put...
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Psychogenic alopecia ( cat pulling hair due to stress) is a rare disorder and is over diagnosed. Most of these are itchy due to a parasite or allergy.
In my experience, antihistamines don’t do much if anything for itchy cats. I don’t know what the allergy...
I think it’s fine he goes into the room during the day.
Cats don’t think like we do. They think in the here and now. Their reactions to things are learned behaviors. He scratches at the door because he knows that you will open the door eventually. It’s not because he doesn’t understand why he...
The Gabapentin can make them drowsy. It’s to bad you can’t get him on a limited protein source, but I understand he must eat something if he won’t eat it.
I would definitely look into anti nausea medications. Are you able to give him injections? I do worry about his hydration with all that...
It is fine to switch as long as the mg are the same. Wedgewood pharmacy compounds some better tasting medications.
Do you know how to just pill him? Like, with your fingers? That is how I pill cats, because sooner or later they bite into the pill and taste it. Even when it is in a capsule. I do...
I’m not taking anything for it. I try not to take medication unless I really need it. It’s getting better or I’m getting used to it. I am so lucky I am not really hurt. Going to go to work tomorrow.
Yeah, sounds like Cheetah. Hyperthyroid, IBD, lymphoma, high blood pressure? Elevated heart enzymes. Asthma. And to top it off she was very feral and vet visits stress her out. Any meds used to reduce stress wipe her out for days. It is definitely juggling deciding what is worth the stress and...