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Hello! Our 15 year old just got some blood work, and everything looked great, except that her glucose was high (274.) She was more stressed than usual during this vet visit (had to bring my two kids and she was stuck in the exam room with them while we waited.) The vet was worried about this...

Hello! I'm posting on behalf of my mom. Her cat just had 4 teeth extracted today, which was one thing, but I guess before the surgery they did some blood work and her BUN & Creatine levels were "way up." Melanie, the cat, had blood work just a few months ago, and her kidney values were normal...

Hello! I have a foster cat who came to me with a small bump at the base of his tail. The shelter vet biopsied it, and found out it was a granulomatous Inflammation. The bump has went down since Morgan arrived at my house, but is still present, so first the vet started him on a 10 day course of...

Hello! I have an anxious 11 year old healthy spayed female cat who I’ve had since she was born. I also have a 9 year old neutered male foster cat (who is over twice her size.) He has been dying to get out of his foster room, so after a month of slow introductions I started letting him upstairs...

Hello! We have had our latest foster cat for a week now. He was having a really hard time at the shelter. Hissed a lot in his cage, didn't eat, and had blood in his urine that the shelter vet thought had to do with stress because his blood and urine tests came back great. He hissed the first...

Hello! I have a foster kitten (7 months old, Ella) She was spayed about a month ago. She was found in a semi-urban area at 4 months, and bit her finder so went into bite quarantine for 10 days. After that, she went into a nice foster home, and then got transferred to me last month b/c the...

Hello! I have a chronically constipated cat who eats 99% raw (outside of a few treats here and there.) She seemed extra uncomfortable today, so I tried giving her a 1/2 tbsp of half and half for the first time. She gulped it down and went #2 a few hours later (stool was harder than ever! Almost...

Hello! I've posted here before about Tiny, my happy, healthy yet extremely litter box averse cat. We have tried everything to get her back to using her litter box (or pee pad, or grass patch, or floor mat--we're flexible!) but nothing has worked. So, I got her a medium sized dog crate, filled...

I used to do a lot of rescue/volunteer work in the cat world, and I spent time counseling people on how to retrain their cat to use the litter box because I didn't think this was a possibility, but Tiny the cat is never going to use a litterbox/p pad/grass patch/dog potty again. She is totally...

Hello! I've posted on her before about my litterbox averse cat Tiny. In short, she has always had issues with going outside of the box, but we've always been able to get her to return to it. Now though, it's been 14 months since she has used it. We've tried everything. She mostly goes on the...

Hello! I've posted about Tiny before in the behavior section, but we recently got her retested and it turns out she has a high red blood cell count in her urine and the vet thinks she has cystisis. We haven't actually seen the vet yet--I was able to catch a urine sample from Tiny and take it in...

Hello! I posted here a while ago about my 9 year old spayed female cat who has really never had a typical relationship with her litter box, and I got some great feedback! Now we are getting ready to move into a bigger house, and will have the opportunity to close her off in one of the...

Hello! I was just looking at the Litter Box Placement article, and it said that if a cat is exposed to a loud noise while using the litter box, that's enough to scare her away from the box for good. Is that true? Is it possible for a healthy cat to stop using the box out of fear and then never...

Hello! I'm in desperate need of help/feedback. That said, Tiny the cat is basically like my first born daughter, and I would never re-home her/drop her off at a shelter. She's always been weird about the litter box. I fostered her along with her litter from day 1 or 2 of her life, so she has...