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After some Googling, I'm wondering if it is a sarcoma? Either osteosarcoma or fibrosarcoma. Now looking back at our photos (we take photos of the kitties almost every day...!), I do see that there was a bump faintly visible as early back as a week ago. But, in the photos that go two weeks...

Thanks @DreamerRose and @Mamanyt1953 really appreciate you taking the time to reply. Yeah, it's a big bump, and the strangest part is that it is hard, like a bone. It feels like his shoulder blade / bone just got big and round. We're not 100% sure how long it's been there; it could have been...

Hi there, Would love to get this community's take on this, as we just got back from the vet and dropped $980 to come out just as clueless as when we went in... Our 11 yr old kitty Maceo seemed to have 'suddenly' developed a large, hard growth on the left side of his neck, almost as if it's on...

Here is some more context: Garlic's Many Health Benefits I guess it's about the dosage?

Update to close out this thread: Maceo is 80% better! He still has some sores in his mouth, but is now on just 50% baby food and 50% his regular raw diet. He is even chewing jerky treats again, so his mouth is better and he is showing no other viral symptoms (unless you count snoring as a...

Hi everyone, In Anitra Frazier's book The Natural Cat (), she recommends supplementing the raw food diet with garlic for a variety of health reasons -- from fighting viruses to fleas. However, I'm now reading elsewhere (on the internet) that garlic is bad for cats. I've been giving my cats...

@paul9856 you are not alone! My cats are obsessed with bleach as well, to the point where I stopped using it for floors because it just seemed not good for them to be rolling around in it and trying to eat it. I'm not sure what causes this, but it almost seems like a drug to them, so maybe...

My cat also had acne as a kitten, looked exactly the same. After we adopted and transitioned him to a raw diet, it went away. It's a common outward symptom of an allergy due to grain-based food, so maybe check if that's the case?

Hi there, my cat is currently battling a nasty upper respiratory infection and wouldn't eat his usual food. We finally got him to eat almost a full day's amount by feeding him Gerber baby food. I'm normally a raw feeder, but the most important is that they get some nutrition in them, raw or...

I read somewhere that black cats (even domestic shorthairs or general mutts) are more likely to be descended from Siamese. When you look at the Burmese and Bombay cats (who are related to Siamese), this does seem to be true. Apparently all-black results from a recessive gene -- making them extra...

Maceo ate ALL his Gerber chicken n gravy at dinner tonight, so that's 2 jars of 100-calorie stinky stuff for the day! Wait, isn't that almost like a full day's worth of calories...??! :D I just watched the video of him lapping up his dinner very rapidly, and I think that's a good sign. Did not...

By the way, saw that someone mentioned Lysine supplementation. Today, I was reading the nutrition facts on my Solgar Nutritional Yeast, and it actually contains a good amount of Lysine! In my experience, cats love nutritional yeast (different from brewer's yeast -- must buy the Solgar brand on...

@catwoman707 the Gerber stuff has 100 calories per jar!! Amazing dense stuff, and smells absolutely terrible (in a good way). So you think they need about 100 cals a day to stay OK? I have no idea how many calories are in his normal food since it's home made, but I was guesstimating 250 or...

Thank you so much @catwoman707 and @mservant. This morning, we had a big win -- he ate an entire jar of baby food (mostly chicken and gravy flavor, with some turkey and veggies flavor mixed in for fiber). As he was eating, I could look into his mouth a bit and saw that his lips and gums are...

Thank you so much! I agree with you that the most important is to help him get through it, regardless of which one it is (and they are rather similar, aren't they). I believe one of the injections was an anti-inflammatory, which might help with his mouth pain but again last night he didn't want...

The vet called it "stomatitis" but then said the plain-English word "sores"... so, I'm honestly not sure which it is, but we do know that there's something painful in poor Maceo's mouth that's preventing him from eating or chewing. Thank you for the encouragement! Yep, was going to purchase...

@catwoman707 @mservant thank you very much for your thoughtful responses. We just got back from another vet visit this afternoon. Maceo still had a fever of 103-ish, which the vet said was a bad sign, and they decided to give him an injection of Convenia, an injection of Cerenia, a little bit of...

Yep, unfortunately some kitties are just picky and will always be on the hesitant / skinny side -- while others are more food oriented and you actually have to watch their weight! I've always had one of each living together, and it can be worrisome if you try to compare, but then remember that...

You can buy raw even on Amazon nowadays (it's freeze-dried and you simply rehydrate with a little warm water) from a brand called Primal and some others. My cats love that stuff, but I only like to use it as a "stinky topper" for my homemade raw food. I have been making their food since...

I have been feeding my cats raw since kittenhood. One is 11 years, and one is a 9 month old that we just adopted. They do not have variable appetites (as long as they're not sick) -- to the contrary, they are food-crazed and somewhat bouncing off the walls, especially as kittens. The raw food...