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Our 13-14 year old cat is now on kidney diet because she has early stage kidney disease. She's been taking Cisapride for over a decade, and still is. Prior to the switch, she wasn’t eating a lot, and was losing weight so we were prescribed Mirtazapine. We started with pills… That did NOT...

Our 14-year-old cat has been diagnosed with early kidney disease. Or vet recommended we try one of the kidney support foods like the Hill’s k/d or Royal Canin Renal support (D, E, T), Purina ProPlan NF. Turns out she eats them both like crazy. Didn’t like the Purina version at all, but eats...

Our 13-year-old tabby isn’t eating enough. I’m putting this here rather than in the “cat nutrition” because that forum seems VERY heavily into the raw and home cooked foods, and the zeal was a bit intimidating… I’m hoping to find advice here for foods that are already prepared and more...

I had a topic in the pet health forum because our 12-year-old tabby, Brownie, had some digestive issues. She just finished a week of antibiotics and the vet recommended we go back to feeding Hill's id AND that we add probiotics to her food. I got a half dozen of the Fortiflora since that's...

I"ll apologize in advance 'cause this'll be long and may be absolutely nothing........ Brownie is a 12-year-old tabby. She started losing weight a couple years ago, and had, over time, fallen from around 9 pounds down to 7. Different foods didn't help, brands, fresh, dry, wet. She just...

I read a number of threads in here about using mirtazapine to increase appetite in older cats. Some thought it was very good, others not so much, and others claimed dire consequences for using it... Our 12-year-old (she was a rescue cat so exact age isn't known) was losing weight. Vet...