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Apologies in advance if this is a ridiculous question. :) After almost a year of wrapping Gus's daily dose of Cerenia (and every other day dose of Mirtazapine) in Pill Pocket dough before sticking it down his throat, I finally got some #5 gelcaps and am ready to ditch the Pill Pockets...

Kitty's normal med time is about 7pm, but he got yesterday's dose around 11:30pm since we were out of town until late. I'd like to walk it back to 7pm. Is it okay to give it an hour early every day for a few days until he's back on schedule? Forgive me if this is a silly question, but how...

Anybody have experience using the phosphate binder supplement Naraquin? The vet just prescribed it earlier this week to help bring Gus's phosphate down. There isn't a whole lot of information about it online other than the basic stuff from the company that makes it, so I wonder if it's...

It seems like most personal accounts of Mirtazapine side effects I've read about are kitties being extra vocal and wired. But the VCA site's info page about it says the most common side effect is drowsiness. Have you seen the drowsiness in your kitty? My boy seems a little more aggressive...

Gus was prescribed a 14-day course of clindamycin for a mouth infection. (Sutures from a lower canine extraction irritated his gums, which led to infection.) Rather than manhandle him and syringe it down his throat, we decided to try the route of mixing it with food - initially just tuna...

How do you slowly transition Kitty to a new food if he refuses to eat the old food? We set down a plate with 1/4 portion of new food, and a separate plate with 3/4 portion of old food. He wolfs down the new food and leaves the old food to dry up and eventually end up in the trash. We've...

Soo...do they make pill pockets for humans? 🙃 If so, what would be your ideal flavor? I'm thinking bacon for me!

Is it normal for a kitty's anus to be sore for a few days after having a stool sample taken manually at the vet's office? This was done at Kitty's visit on Tuesday. It looked a little irritated, to me, and he still seemed to be moving a bit more gingerly than normal even yet this morning. I...

This may be a silly question, but those are my specialty, so...:p When we talk about taking it slow when transitioning to a new food, does that apply to different flavors and/or protein sources within the same kind/brand of food? (Example: within the Merrick Purrfect Bistro grain-free line of...

TL;DR - Is 2+ months too long to wait to have decayed teeth extracted? We took ten-year-old Kitty to the vet yesterday after noticing he'd been gradually losing interest in his kibble over the past few months and it had reached a point where we realized it wasn't just pickiness. The bloodwork...