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Hello! Gracie licked her bum raw a couple of weeks ago. The the short version of the long story is: she had several days of anesthesia- and stress-induced diarrhea after a dental extraction, wound up with an impacted anal gland, and obsessively overgroomed the area. She was given Topagen...

Gracie’s in the midst of major digestive upset due to stress (dental cleaning and one extraction last week). The vets she’s seen have both suggested feeding bland, easy to digest foods only for a couple of days to help her colitis calm down… but she’s an extremely picky eater and has already...

Hello! Gracie (age 8) had her first dental cleaning today, and required one extraction. Otherwise, per the vet, her teeth are in good shape! :-) The vet sent her home with transdermal codeine (5mg/dose), which she's to get twice a day for the next five days. Is this a typical pain med given...

Gracie's going for her first dental cleaning a couple of weeks, and the receptionist at the vet's office said she needs to fast from 8pm the night before. Drop-off time at the clinic is 8:30am. First, does fasting her for 12+ hours seem like an unusually long time? Some background: she's...

Hello! Does anyone have any surefire (or, at this point, even halfway effective) strategies to help me get my cat, Gracie, to stop whining/yowling for her nighttime/overnight food? She's fed four small meals a day: breakfast around 7am (wet food), daytime kibbles around 9am, dinner around 5pm...

Long story short: sometime yesterday morning, and unbeknownst to me, Gracie threw up her oceanfish & tuna wet-food breakfast under a chair in my bedroom. I'd had the windows open all day/night, and we live a couple of blocks from a fish & chips place, so I *thought* the fishy smell was coming...

Hi all! So, Gracie has a bladder infection and is currently about halfway through a 10-day course of Clavaseptin. It's given her the textbook side effect: diarrhea. Well, very soft poop with a soft-serve-ice-cream consistency. So far, it's still semi-solid, not totally liquid. I picked up...

Hi everyone! Freaking out a little about blood in my cat's urine. The back story... Gracie's four and was adopted in October 2018. She's a fabulous cat -- very affectionate and playful, and eats/sleeps/poops/pees normally. She had a full wellness work-up at the vet's when I got her, and...

Hi everyone! About a month ago, I rehomed Gracie (new cat) with my sister, who's cat-mom to Larry (resident cat), a big, oafy gentle giant. We've been following all the cat-introduction guidelines -- we read all the articles on this site (+ many others!) and have been taking it very...

Hi everyone! When I adopted Gracie (Oct. 11th), the shelter had shaved her belly (Oct. 2nd) to check for a spay scar, which she had. In the process, I think they nicked her with the clippers, because there was a teeny scab of dried blood (about the size of a grain of rice) right in the middle...

Gracie's been with me for about five (anxiety-riddled, for me) days, and I'm 99% sure she has tapeworms. I've found several gummy or dried out rice-grain-sized white things on her tail/haunches over the past few days. Thankfully, she has her first vet visit later this afternoon, anyway. My...

Gracie was adopted on Thursday (Oct. 11th) and, while she *is* eating, she's not eating much. She'll have a few bites of wet food and then leave it. She'll eat maybe a teaspoon or two of kibbles overnight, and randomly pick at the bowl of kibbles throughout the day. I've tried various foods in...

Hi everyone! Gracie (pictured in my avatar) is four years old, and was adopted a few days ago. She's settled in nicely -- she's affectionate and cuddly, and seems quite relaxed. She loves being brushed, which is good considering her ample fur! I, however, am a nervous wreck. Though my family...