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Kola has *really* come out of her shell in the past few days. It has been really remarkable to watch her. She frequently comes up to me for attention and has found a warm, cozy little spot on my desk behind the computer monitor that she likes to curl up in and sleep in when I am on the computer...

I know we're not supposed to reply to our own posts but I couldn't find an edit function for my previous one. Not 5 minutes after I posted it, Kola came out of the bedroom and head butted me to start petting her again. This time, she started purring...the first time she's done that around me...

Thanks for the response and the article links. The picture of her in that previous post was actually taken at her foster's but I have attached two pics below of her at the end of her first day with me. She was quite calmly enjoying her cat condo so she was at least comfortable enough with that...

Well, I took the plunge and adopted this little beauty. Her age is estimated by a vet to be about 3 yrs old and has only a 2 inch stub for a tail (apparently born that way). She was found roaming the streets with a group of stray kittens by a rescue group and since she had such a great...

I am not sure if this is the right section for this post but I couldn't find one that seemed more appropriate. I am a long time cat parent who is currently without a cat (lost my last little one to illness recently). I am starting to consider adopting another and have been looking at a variety...

Thank you. That is so wonderfully put.

I had thought things were looking up this weekend and she was finally coming around. When I talked to the vet this morning he said that the the kind of vomiting she was still having was not normal and she should have started eating on her own by now as well. He said that there had to be another...

Thanks for all of the interest, concern and suggestions. I brought her home from the vet yesterday (Saturday) afternoon after the surgery. The vet and I hoped that having her at home and able to relax in her own surroundings over the rest of the weekend would help her calm down after the...

Thanks. My vet said that anything at all that I can get her to eat right now would be positive and the Gerber Baby Food is one of the foods he mentioned. I don't have any of that on hand at the moment and I don't want to leave her alone yet to go off too the market and get some now. Anything...

Thanks for all of the great suggestions and responses. Fingers still crossed. She is more than a day out of the surgery now and still not recovering the way my vet had hoped, even though the mass is now out of there. She is still completely lethargic and not eating. He decided to let me bring...

Well, keep your fingers crossed. After going so well for a while, things changed in what has turned out to be a real saga. It turns out that today was my vet's day off. He is so dedicated that he had been having his staff keep him apprised of her x-rays at home while the thing was moving through...

More good news from the vet. He's keeping her in his hospital all day again today as he did yesterday so that she can be watched. The first x-rays showed that whatever it is (possibly a rubberband or even a hard hairball) moved during the night and more x-rays just now showed it moving some more...

He wants to see if it will start to pass through on it's own from the barium first. If it looks as if it hasn't started moving on it's own by tomorrow morning, surgery will be immediately.

My little one is back home now and my vet kept his promise. He said he would work on it throughout the day until he found the problem. He took me through all the x-rays he took throughout the day and just found what he thinks is the problem at the end of the day. His original guess was a GI...

Wow, did morning ever bring much better news. I called the vet when they opened and the one I've been working with all week wasn't in. He was one of the more junior vets in the practice. I got my regular vet this time. He is the lead vet, owner of the practice and considered one of the top vets...

Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions. It's been almost a day and a half since her vet visit and she is definitely starting to perk up a little now. I hadn't been able to get her to take the appetite stimulant yet. She has ALWAYS been a very difficult cat to manage over the years. She has...

A little while after she finally peed successfully she made her way over to the patio screen and curled up in her favorite spot where she likes to look out over the patio and watch the outdoors. That's the first time she's shown any interest in doing that in 2 days and another good sign. I'm...

Thanks for all the replies. In the last hour, she made it from the living room to her litter box in the hallway. She pawed at the litter as she normally does before trying to pee than managed to successfully pee what looks like a fairly substantial amount. She didn't bother to try and bury it...

I'm beside myself. I have a 9 year old female who has been in perfect health, sees the vet regularly and keeps up with all her shots. This past Sunday, I realized that she had been seeming to sleep more than I thought usual for her the past few days. On Monday, she started vomiting white foam...