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Our cat has had a two month long bout of herpes related conjunctivitis. After trying lots of meds we finally had success with Famciclovir. Today marks day 21 of that med and his symptoms had been completely clear for the last 3-4 days. He has been wearing an e collar for 4 weeks now to prevent...

We are going into week 5 of my poor cats herpes virus related conjunctivitis. So far we have tried a convenia antibiotic shot, Cerenia anti-inflammatory pills, Isathal drops to combat possible secondary bacterial infection. Then we tried doxycycline, we are on the second round of that...

A little background- during the course of Covid I lost 4 cats and a dog, all elderly, to various illness. That period was very stressful of course, with a lot of medications, worry and then too many goodbyes. After our last kitty passed we adopted a kitten, Sebastian and then another kitty...

My cat is being treated for an eye infection and part of the vets current instructions include him wearing a cone to keep him from irritating the eye further. His little brother loves to groom him and will still be able to with the cone on. Is there a way to fix it so he can’t get in? They’ve...

We are going into week 4 of Sebastian’s herpes virus flare up with conjunctivitis being the main symptom. He has been treated with an antibiotic shot, anti inflammatory meds and Isathal gel for his eye to deal with any possible secondary bacterial infection. I see some minor improvement with the...

My 8 month old kitten obsessively grooms his one and a half year old “brother”. They both have FHV and the older cats affects his eye during flare ups. The younger cat has groomed his brothers eye to the point of causing a secondary bacterial infection that we are treating him for. They have to...

Our one and a half year old cat is having a flare up of conjunctivitis from feline herpes virus that he’s had since we adopted him from the shelter as a baby. This is the third occurrence since we’ve had him, I’m assuming from the stress of having people coming and going over the holidays. His...

So it’s Saturday evening on a holiday weekend ( Canadian Thanksgiving weekend) and we just noticed a tapeworm segment on my 5 month old cats bum. I wiped it off to make sure it was what I thought and it definitely was. So we live in a very small town- our regular vet is almost 2 hours away...

Our kitten Sulley is 5 months old and recently I’ve noticed a few things that make me wonder if something is up with his health. He was adopted from a shelter and is neutered and current on all vaccinations, dewormed and deflead. When we first adopted him in July he had an URI that we treated...

We have two kitties, a 1 year old and a 14 week old. When we got the oldest cat last year he was timid and small for his age. Our bedroom where we spend a lot of our time is on the upstairs level of our house. We put the litter boxes for our first kitty in the second bedroom on this second...

Our kitten Sulley is 14 weeks old and has just recently been allowed full time access to our resident 1 year old cat Sebastian and the run of the whole house. They eat on opposite sides of the kitchen in their own spots. Sebastian only likes fancy feast grilled poultry style wet food and we have...

We are going into week 3 of the introduction of our 13 week old kitten to our 1 year old resident cat. We’ve successfully navigated scent transfer, site swapping, visual meeting through a mesh gate and have now begun brief face to face meetings. It’s going well, our 1 year old is super excited...

We have a one year old kitty, Sebastian, who was acting very bored and a bit sad. So last weekend we adopted an 11 week old kitten, Sulley. The kitten has been in his base camp room, and Sebastian seems ok with some site swapping and smelling him under the door. He will eat treats by the door...

It has been many years since I’ve had a kitten in my home. As a bit of back story, the last 4 years have been difficult, I lost my 5 elderly (nearly 20 years old each) cats one by one to various illnesses. I have been left in a state of paranoia over my new kittens health and worry over every...

We have a kitten at Christmas this year for the first time in many years. We usually use an artificial tree which our elderly cats had no interest in- but this little guy (he will be 4 months old soon) chews everything. I worry about him eating the plastic bits of the artificial tree, so we were...

Our recently adopted kitten is now 14 weeks old. He’s being fed exclusively Royal Canin wet kitten food (the pate kind). He seems to really love his food and is up to eating a 5.5 oz can plus a bit more split into 4 meals a day. He seems constantly hungry though, trying to snatch food from us...

My 18 year old kitty is in stage 2 ( but barely) renal failure. He has had issues with inappetance and in the last few months has had good days and bad ones. He has had two full blood panels and a complete urinalysis done recently and his kidney levels have actually marginally improved. He has...

My husbands job is about to be split between two separate Provinces in the Maritimes of Canada. It will be 6 months in one and 6 months in another. My 3 senior cats (ages 18,16,14) have never travelled except very occasional vet trips. The drive is about 6 hours, how can I make this easiest for...

My 14 year old cat Jack was recently diagnosed as hyperthyroid. He was prescribed transdermal methimazole that we have to rub into the skin inside his ear flap twice a day. I have to apply it with gloves as it can go through my skin barrier as well. I have a couple questions that I didn’t ask my...

My cat Gibbons was diagnosed yesterday with renal failure. I am devastated. My vet is showing me today how to give him subcu injections and we will start him on special low protein food. Can anyone give me practical advice on how to keep him as happy and comfortable as possible until he starts...