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Good for you for giving her such good care. Our shy girl likes her tall cat tree. It has carpet and nooks and crannies for her to hide in. Maybe something like that to climb would give Lily some exercise and her back legs and give her a safe space? Good luck. She sounds wonderful. Shy cats...

We sometimes resort to grinding pills in a pill grinder and putting it in tuna water. Not the kind packed in oil. One of our vets recommends squirt cheese — Easy Cheese? If it is going to be a regular medication, we get it compounded into liver flavored cat treats at BCP Pet Pharmacy in...

Poor you! Poor Huxley! You are trying so hard, and in such a difficult situation. I hope you learn more on Monday. I, too, have to "sit" on my cats to pill them. I sit on my heels, and keep them tight together so he can't wriggle out under my butt. At my age, it is getting tough to do, but...

Here is the link to Royal Canin's sensitivity diets: Hypoallergenic Food for Cats & Dogs with Food Sensitivities | Royal Canin You can also get the phone number there. One of their foods has apparently been hydrolyzed down to unrecognizable proteins, but they assure me it is palatable and...

We have recently been through this with our elderly gentleman. It is pure hell, I know. My heart goes out to you both. Our boy has IBD, so I monitor his litter boxes with video cams, and while I had noticed his urine stream was weak compared to his brother and littermate, I put it down to age...

I have limited experience with FIV but my sister has a sassy girl named Ethel who tested positive over 12 years ago. She takes no meds, and is thriving. She lives with three FIV negative cats, but she is not an agressive cat at home. Twice, however, she has gotten out and wrangled with a possum...

I am so sorry for what you and Huxley are going through. We have two IBD cats, a brother and sister. At age thirteen, they began swinging from bloody diarrhea to constipation. It took almost a year to get them stable. They are almost sixteen now. I can only imagine how hard it must be with...

I can't add anything helpful here, other than to say God bless you for caring for Theo. You and your wife sound like truly decent people. I hope the vet can shed some light.

BTW, I certainly didn't mean to give any offense in mentioning flea treatment -- not at all -- but merely to point out people choose different options. It is costly, and in SOME cases, not needed. I choose not to treat my indoor cats, though one of the four does occasionally go out in harness...

Don't let me get your hopes up. But. My cat sitter got the "large, likely hopeless abdominal tumor" diagnosis from an excellent cat vet, but when they went it, it was a huge, nasty healed-over access from -- they think -- a deep, old bite wound she never noticed. Again, not to get your hopes...

We do heartworm 9 months a year but not flea treatment. And I worry, honestly, about the Heartguard. Keep chemical exposure to a minimum, is my advice, and deal with fleas if and when you must -- which will likely be never. Good luck.

I agree with the suggestion to do a fine needle biopsy. Ultrasound is uninvasive other than the belly-shave, not horrifically expensive, and in some areas can be done at home by a mobile tech. If it is cancer, yes, I would keep pain meds on hand, and discuss with your vet beginning prednisolone...

My vet, whom I've had through twenty years and six cats, says that when it comes to thyroid disease, you sometimes need to treat to the symptoms not the numbers. This is his philophy, not medical advice! But when our kidney gal began losing weight and yet remained quite physically active for...

We have a cat on gabapentin -- temporarily, I hope -- and I am using my own prescription left over from a neck injury. They are the large 300 mg tablets and my house call vet mixed 4 of them in one ounce of Swanson unsalted chicken stock -- NOT broth! -- and stuck it in my fridge. He says...

I am new here, but I just want to say you have a breathtakingly beautiful cat! You have received good advice about feeding, and while I have not regularly fed Fancy Feast, I know many people who do and have had cats live long and healthy on it. If that is what your budget allows for, I think...