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That’s really great to hear! I also haven’t had great luck with L-Lysine and up until the other week I had never heard of DMG. My six are strictly indoor now but 5/6 were originally strays. I’m thankful they never contacted FeLV but we’ve had our share of other issues with them. 🙁 Question...

so nothing has necessarily changed- if it is truly a flare the only thing I could think of is that he was starting an ear infection and that (plus cleaning his ears) caused him stress. Unless I did accidentally bring a different strand of the virus home from dealing with the strays outside...

Hi all- looking for some support and insight. At the current moment I’m unsure if my cats are currently infected with a new strain of feline herpes virus (FHV), calicivirus (responsible for about 60% of URI’s), or perhaps one of my cats got a flare up and started shedding the virus which caused...

Updates: we’ve caved and have continued feeding him as the situation is pretty heartbreaking. It’s difficult to just ignored the cat. The “tarp tent” shelter worked out well for the big storm, everything stayed dried and the boy seems to enjoy it. We successfully managed to move his set up to...

I definitely understand what you’re saying- it’s not harsh at all. Since he’s been in good body condition for the few months he’s been showing up I do believe he *was* eating else where before this last week, now if he’ll still go there for food is another thing. I guess I just feel dumb for...

I definitely found it odd too that no one reached back out. For example, the other caretaker on my street (across the road) was very kind about my original Nextdoor post about this cat a couple weeks ago and told me it wasn’t one of hers, got me in touch with another older women a few houses...

Also, another question- I’ve only fed him for about a week here and there just out of pity. I realize this is probably a mistake. If I was to not leave food out to prevent fighting from the possibility of other cats roaming over here, would this be fine? Assuming the house across the road does...

Hi again, thank you all for your replies. I’ll try to cover as many questions and provide as much information as possible. So on the possibility of him being not fixed- I’m 90% positive he is. I have not touched his hind area because he does not allow his full body to be touched. He really...

Hi all I’m looking for some advice (sorry I’m advance for length of this post, I appreciate whomever takes the time to read) back story- I recently moved into a neighborhood that has an estimated 25+ feral and stray cats. Three houses in my immediate area have their own colonies of various...

Hi all, looking for advice on one of our cats, Pipp. information- Pipp fixed male, 13 yrs old Health issues- right now he currently has early hyperthyroidism. This was just discovered a week ago. We believe it’s early stages, his t4 was only a 4.1 (highest value of normal is 4.0 so he’s just...

just wanted to give a little update today- Yesterday I spoke with his primary vet, she advised doing the 2.5 mg prednisolone dose for a week. She said if his symptoms do not decrease we can always up it to 2.5 mg twice a day until his symptoms are under control and then taper down to where he...

thank you! 🥰 him and his brother are truly my pride and joy. Tristan is the one with the orange eyes and torn ear. Out of all of the cats I’ve had throughout my life they hold a very special place In my heart.

Yeah I definitely think the fall season/having the heat on now is a contributing factor. Of course my cats seem to hate this new litter. It’s wheat based and I figured it was close enough to the oko cat litters texture that they’d like it. The only reason I bought something other than okocat was...

Thank you! It’s really ironic because yesterday I was speaking with my partner about getting some rescue oxygen -just in case- When our ER trip happened in 2022 all 24/7 facilities local were at capacity. We had to drive 50 mins north to the next nearest city. If that ever happened again with...

Also I apologize for any typos or mis-wording; this is my first ever post here and I’m on mobile! 🙃 I just reread my posting and realized there’s a few mistakes

Cat information - Pierce 6 yr old fixed male Health history (**extremely long**) - he was very sick as a baby (was actually my foster from the shelter I worked at at the time) weighed 1.7 lbs at 3 months, chronic URI (supposedly calici virus and feline herpes), extreme diarrhea due to coccidia...