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Thanks! The vet said his blood tests looked good, so that's great news. I don't know if the one med fixed everything, but however he got better, I'm glad. For the price of the Atopica, it ought to be a miracle drug. Ha.

Our almost 8-yr old cat is a male and was neutered when he was a few months old. We never had trouble before with him spraying in the house, but for the past couple of months he's been spraying and it's been getting worse. At first it was just one area but now it's anything goes! Yesterday...

It's been awhile since I checked in here last. We've been going through this diabetes problem that Dean has, plus I guess I said that the vet also said he has Inflammatory Bowel Disease (I think that's the name of it), Pancreatitis and he was also having trouble with his liver. She put him on...

Sorry I somehow missed your reply before to me. I hate to switch insulins now that Dean has been on this Vetsulin. Besides, with my luck the pharmacies around here would say they wouldn't have the Lantau Llargine. Knowing the vet, they wouldn't be willing to have him on that. Also, I'm...

Yeah, that's what I've been finding about all these insurance companies, that they won't cover Dean's diabetes. If only we had looked into insurance sooner...shoulda coulda woulda! That's too bad about not insuring your dog and he'd have been covered with his second illness, but here our cats...

I wonder why the veterinarian seems to be okay with us feeding him dry food and wet food. They didn't mention that the dry food is bad for Dean. We were planning on feeding both. They can order both for him, diabetic food, of course. Our daughter (lives with us) already ordered both. Yes...

Dean has been eating much better, and now we have to try to make sure that he doesn't eat too much. Well, we pretty much have to give him measured amounts of food. If it's really important for us to give him diabetic cat food, we'll be ordering it from our veterinarian, but for now he and his...

No, thank goodness he hasn't vomited since he came home from the vet. He had been vomiting a lot last week though before we took him in to the vet. He hadn't been eating, so the vomit was mostly watery. I don't know if he's nauseous or has a bad tooth or what's keeping Dean from eating. I...

Thank you for the link to the info on tips of how to get a cat to eat. I will have to read down over that. It certainly sounds like it will help. I don't know exactly what it is that is causing Dean's reluctance to eat, but it just frustrates me that I get the feeling that they don't believe...

My husband gave Dean some pieces of his ham sandwich earlier just so he'd get something in his belly. He said he seemed excited about that, but he also acted like it's a struggle to eat. We're so frustrated with the veterinarian thinking that there's no problem with his mouth. I will have to...

Oh, that's too bad Nico was diagnosed with diabetes. Yeah, I was pretty heartbroken too when I got the news about Dean. I'm glad that Nico improved though and that you have many years with him after that. Thank you for the link to the diabetes board. I tried to sign up but didn't have any...

Yes, I've been writing down questions and intend to call the vet tomorrow. I'm very worried about Dean because he's not eating. He acts like he wants to but then doesn't. He even takes a piece of dry food into his mouth and then drops it on the floor and doesn't eat it. I will try not to...

That would be great if Dean would go into remission. Right now I'm worried about his not eating. I'm going to call the vet tomorrow and if they can get him in, I wouldn't mind that either because my fear is that he will continue not eating and really having a big problem. He can't go on like...

I don't know why I was thinking that heavy cats get diabetes. Now I know better. Our veterinarian told us to make sure that we feed Dean and then give the insulin because she said you don't want the cat to have too much insulin in him if we'd give the injection and then the food. Since he's...

Thank you for the suggestion of baby food. We can try that, and I'd be happy if he'd eat it, but he's been acting like he has trouble eating. He seems kind of enthused when he first sees the food we put down for him, but then once he actually tries to eat it, it seems like something is...

I'm so sorry to hear that you just lost your cat. That's what I did when our one cat was dying of cancer. Temptations was the only thing that he would eat towards the end, so that is what he got. Thank you for your support. It's really tough having a sick cat.

We took Dean into the veterinarian on Wednesday for urgent care. The last time he had eaten or drank was on Saturday. We kept waiting for him to get better, but finally when he was really acting strange (I'd call it almost delirious because he was ripping his fountain apart and he jumped into...

Oh, I forgot to answer your question about Dean's peeing. Yes, he uses the box for that.

Hmmm...those are very good comments and suggestions. By "enzymatic cleaners", would you mean something like the Simple Green spray that we've been spraying where he's been going or do you mean something else? I'm not sure if the smell would still be there or not, if what we've been spraying...

Does anyone know what could cause our 7-year-old cat to start pooping on the floor right outside the litter pan? He's been doing this for a week now. Otherwise, he acts normal. He eats and drinks and continues to go outside with his brother on his daily walks for a couple hours a day. Every...