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I noticed Midway attacking his flank but by the time I got my phone the worst was over. Still I do have video of his back rippling. This has been going on a couple of months, and it clearly bothers him, when an episode starts he will jerk his body around rather than moving gracefully...

So one of my cats, I'm not sure which one, threw up a huge hairball. I promise you, these are ordinary cats with ordinary size cat stomachs. So here's the questions - Do I have to worry about a medical issue? Should I figure out which cat barfed it up? Or is this unusual but harmless? And...

I have two cats. Montressor is a 19 year old male cat, who is very skittish around our other cat Midway. Midway is a 15 year old male cat with a high play aggression/prey drive. I ended up taking Midway outside to meet some kids a couple of weeks ago and that kicked in his desire to go...

I've got two cats, both male, 15 and 19. One has always been on the skinny side, the other has always been on the chubby side and tends to be a boredom eater and comfort eater. Two vets so far are actually glad to see a little extra weight on my cats as apparently senior kitties tend to be...

This isn't a "this is happening now", so I'm starting this here instead of Cat Behavior. Has anyone else ever had a cat that was completely healthy and yet had significant behavior changes when a different cat in the house was sick? I was taking a trip down memory lane and I remembered that...

My cat Montressor has a lump right next to his tail. It is roughly the size of a marble. I first found it about 18 months ago, at that time it looked like a tiny, slightly raised mole, so I didn't think anything of it. I am strongly considering willful ignorance by not pursuing a diagnosis...

So now that Shadow's gone and I'm only feeding two cats, I thought about switching to wet food. Did the research on calorie needs for both the boys, went to the store, picked up a can of Fancy Feast and found the number of calories per can on the label, and started punching numbers on my...

I'm throwing myself a pity party. I am way too young to have all these aches and pains. Way too young. I'm at the tail end of Gen X, we're not old like those Baby Boomers. But in the last year and a half my right arm has had to deal with brachial neuritis, then tennis elbow (tendonitis), then...

It's over. The emergency vet, they were very nice. The receptionist, the tech and the vet all said I could spend as long with her as I wanted. But at that point it was just drawing it out, so I did it immediately. It was very quick and very peaceful, very very peaceful. I brought her home...

So the regulars here are familiar with Shadow. Summary, she's 18 years old and probably has mammary cancer. She hasn't been really eating lately and I was sure she lost some weight and she's shown breathing problems, so we went to the vet today. The reason for her acting ill is almost...

Shadow has started to refuse cat treats. At first, well she might not be in the mood, blah blah. Over the last couple of days though I noticed she is far less active. I picked her up, she felt lighter, so I did the trick of standing on the scale with and without her. Now she's at her "ideal"...

For those with a little patience, this video is 1 minute 30 seconds long. It shows my baby in motion, including how she walks with the arthritis the way it is. It also shows alertness levels and all that. I'm really thinking about asking for bloodwork, and if that's normal maybe actually...

If eaten in small quantities, what human food won't kill a cat? Today I had some errands, got home when my husband was finishing up lunch with a bowl of cereal (plain Cheerios, no sweetener added). Then he took a spoonful of milk and let Shadow lap it up. I told him that she would get...

If I want to quote someone here, there's only the "+Quote" option. Great if I want to quote multiple people, but if I'm only quoting one I still have to do that extra step of telling it I want to insert the quotes. Another forum has both a "Quote" and a "+Quote" options so that if I only want...

Lately Shadow has been having a lot of dry heaves. It sounds like she's trying to cough up a hairball, that super wheezy "hyuk hyuk" over and over. But there's been no hairball in the past few weeks. Sometimes she spits a little something up, but more often than not she just stops after about...

So Midway has started yowling at the top of his lungs in the morning. Usually my daughter having her bedroom door shut is one thing that triggers it, me going into the kitchen (where the cat food isn't kept and it's a couple of hours after they are fed) is another thing that triggers it. But...

I tried a new food recently (Rachael Ray) and the cats turned into furry vacuum cleaners so it was clearly a hit. The store I got it from carried two different flavors, I got one bag of each. The next week I got two more bags, again one of each flavor. They finished off the salmon bag this...

What palliative care options are there for cats? I think Shadow's belly lump is getting bigger. If so, this is it, I'm not going to treat it. I think not doing so is for the best. I can't take all three cats in on the same paycheck, so she'll be going in second, probably next month. In the...

I know that sudden behavior changes can mean bad things. But in this case Midway suddenly started demanding our attention all the time. He's pretty aggressive about getting our attention and pettings and being picked up and being in my husband's lap now. And it is very sudden, a few weeks ago...

I have three cats. About 4 hours ago I dug the new slow cooker out of its box.  I left the box in the middle of the floor on its side. Now?  In the same room as the box, one cat is sleeping in a chair, one cat is sleeping on the couch, and one cat is sleeping on the cat tree.  The box is...