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So happy to hear Sadie is feeling better! It's so funny that you go from "she's not liking her wet food" to "she has a cold"...cats are truly an enigma! Henry also seems to be feeling better, but I still have no idea what was going on! Since I last posted I made sure to get her back on her...

I know this was posted awhile ago but came across @FeebysOwner 's suggestion to try iHerb and I can confirm they sell it! Gerber, Mealtime for Baby, 2nd Foods, Chicken & Gravy, 2.5 oz (71 g) Just got my order, it was reasonably priced (tho every individual jar was in a ziplock plastic bag and...

Honestly, the first episode happened the same day as a really stupid, unfortunate incident where I was boiling water to humidify the house...and fell back asleep with the pot boiling (I know, I know). Woke up to the pot boiled dry and the ceramic coating starting to burn off. It was...

Update: She saw the vet on Friday and they looked at her teeth. There is one tooth with noticeable redness and tartar but she said she wasn't "too worried" about it and it didn't look so bad to her. They couldn't anesthetize her to take X-rays or do a cleaning, I'm not sure if it was because I'd...

The mug warmer is genius! Gonna look into that for Henry as she wants nothing to do with microwaved food. I hope Sadie feels better soon!! It does sound like a really similar issue, that "jerking up and running away" is totally it. So hard to see them uncomfortable when there's not an easy...

She's around 6/7 according to the foster org I got her from, but they don't know for sure. Thanks for the tip, this helps make my decision to cancel the ultrasound easier knowing that isn't the primary diagnostic tool for pancreatitis anyways, which was actually my main concern after many...

Honestly thank you so much for this comment. Now that you explain how she might be experiencing the pain (and why the dry food is different), it seems so obvious! Especially since she hasn't had any signs of something internal that needs so much further exploration after the extensive testing...

For your dry food cat, if he's kind of dumb and doesn't chew his food much like mine, you can try burying it under some dry food. I've had success with that method a few times, where my cat just laps it up and swallows it whole without realizing. But that was for a coated gabapentin, might not...

I know you mentioned them not liking it crushed inside creamy treats, but do they generally go for creamy treats otherwise? If so I recommend putting the whole dose inside the creamy treat. This is the only way I can pill my skittish cat and I've got this method perfected to the point where I...

No, she hasn't and my vet said since she's not feeling well she'd rather do the ultrasound first and only if that came back clean proceed to try dental. Pretty worried about how much debt I'll be in by then lol. When switching to a novel protein, would you suggest just giving it to cold turkey...

I apologize that this will be a long post, but I'm hoping someone could have some insight into what might be going on with Henrietta. She's a former feral cat I adopted about a year ago and seems to have a plethora of random symptoms that the vets either weren't concerned about or went away on...

I'm glad to know that less restraint works best! Many people (including my vet) tend to tell me just get it done even if you have to force it, and I feel like I'm letting her down by not being able to bring myself to do that :( And she's too wriggly for it to work anyways! She'll let me pet her...

Nope, unfortunately as soon as I even pet her in the wrong spot when she's laying/sleeping somewhere she's up and away, and definitely not on me or between my legs. Thanks for the resources!

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation! That makes sense! I thought that's what I was doing but when that didn't work I moved on to another spot and I only get a couple of seconds per day to practice 😂 But thanks to you I'll have a better idea of the spot to go for, and once I get it...

THANK YOU! This is sooo helpful. I wish I could get her to let me handle her like that 😪 I have about 3 seconds with her paw before she tugs it away and runs and hides under the bed! Hopefully with more training and now knowing the proper spot to handle I'll be able to give her regular trims so...

So I'm trying to train my 6 y/o former stray (was likely born on the street, so she's a finnicky one) with a clicker to do nail trims because she's always catching on everything. It's slow going, but it's going ok. I've gotten to the point of getting her to let me pick up, handle and press on...

Hi everyone, I've had my cat Henrietta for almost a year. The TL;DR here is that I'm going away for 2-3 weeks at the end of the summer and I'm super nervous about it. I'm getting a trusted friend to stay with her at my house the whole time, with instructions to keep up her usual routines, but...

I have to go on a business trip next weekend for 3 days, but usually I work from home and my cat Henrietta is a very anxious little girl. She is so used to me being home and playing with her (she needs a lot of playing) and gets stressed when I even go out for the day. I've been trying to slowly...

Great suggestions! I didn't even think of the egg shakers, that might be good! Or maybe large wooden beads or something...

I completely understand everything you said. It really resonated with me, I hate when people say "it's just a cat", if I'm completely honest I love my cat more than my boyfriend, is that crazy? Well, just in a different way I guess, but still. And I've been worried about leaving my cat before...