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    Athena vomiting

    I talked to the local vet this morning, and he was deeply skeptical that the hairball that came up on Monday, or any hairball at all, could get her as sick as she got. He's still worried about the possibility of pancreatitis, but right now we're going to focus on getting Athena better at home...
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    Athena vomiting

    Yes, a blood panel was done on Tuesday. The results were mostly normal, and the abnormal readings looked to be due primarily to dehydration and possibly stress. Looking at the can, you're completely correct: the emergency vet did indeed give me cans of Hill's Prescription diet. Both my local...
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    Athena vomiting

    Athena is at home, and eating (Iams Intestinal low residue wet food). And right now she's happily curled up on my sleeping spouse. Yeah! When I picked Athena up, I just talked to the nurse, not the doctor (and, yes, they call them "nurses" and not "vet techs" at this particular emergency vet...
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    Athena vomiting

    I talked to the Thursday emergency vet, and (without my prompting) he said that the ultrasound did not completely rule out pancreatitis, because it is possible to have pancreatitis without an abnormal looking pancreas on ultrasound. The current plan is that I'll pick up Athena later today...
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    update on my cats behavior after 6 years...

    Since it hasn't gotten any better in 6 years, and it sounds like you've got a fairly big house (6 cats), I suggest a mesh door, like you seen in cat rescue houses. Make a room "Stimpy's room" and spend some time in there with him every day, but simply don't allow him to touch any of the other...
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    Athena vomiting

    From what little I've looked up online, it seems that an ultrasound is an expensive but really good way to check for pancreatitis (if the pancreas is not big or otherwise unusual looking), so the ultrasound looking for foreign objects is probably a good way to rule out pancreatitis. And we know...
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    Athena vomiting

    No fever on Tuesday or Wednesday. My second to-last paragraph in my first post is about pancreatitis. I think that the Wednesday e-vet thinks she's ruled out pancreatitis, but the second local vet doesn't think that pancreatitis has been ruled out. And, yeah, I know there isn't always a...
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    Athena vomiting

    I haven't been visiting this site for a while, but I'm back because of an acute health crisis in one of my own cats. Athena has a history of eating non-food items, and has had surgery to find and remove a draw-string from her stomach. Athena is currently at an emergency vet. On Monday she...
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    Pet Airways - coming next week!

    I'm moving from the LA area to Chicago at the end of August, I have two cats, no car, and I'm doing this myself. Thanks for posting about this, this is certainly an option for me! If I end up using it, I'll tell you all about it! It looks like it would be $200 - $250 per cat, depending on...
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    Sensitive paw pads or just picky?

    I doubt it has anything to with sensitive paw pads, but it certainly sounds like he prefers carpet! I have one cat who prefers wood and one cat who prefers cardboard. I must say that carpet is a pretty inconvenient preference, as you don't want him to scratch your carpets. I think the issue...
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    Cat hoarding relative

    8 kittens that the vet is adopting out (and so is going to charge an adoption fee on and isn't charging us). 32 adult cats (and older kittens) from the property 5 adult cats from the neighbor's satellite colony. So, that's 45 animals fixed. There are two as-yet-unfixed cats that S will pay for...
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    FIV/ FeLV

    I surely don't know. I know that adult de-claw is more traumatic than a kitten de-claw, but in Georgia, I thought that both were pretty routine. It's a moot point now. Well, it looks like the foster got used to the idea of taking this cat (S apparently did a very good personality sales job)...
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    Cat hoarding relative

    Emotional roller-coaster and excellent news! Apparently, the above test was a dud: a second in-office combo ELISA test was a double negative. Because S walked farther afield while looking for an owner of the wrongly-tested positive cat than he had in the past, he essentially found a satellite...
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    FIV/ FeLV

    Excellent news! They re-did just the ELISA combo in-office test, and the first one was apparently a dud of a test (or they make a mistake when they used it or something): the second one was negative. Yeah! That was an emotional, must-find-foster-now roller coaster, but it's all good now...
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    FIV/ FeLV

    The FIV vaccine isn't recommended as a core vaccine, because it makes cats test positive on the only tests for FIV currently available. This is because FIV circulates at low levels in the blood, so the tests that have been developed test for the antibody (immune response to the virus, and what...
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    FIV/ FeLV

    Very bad news - a cat tested positive for both FeLV/FIV. Male, neutered, extremely friendly, black and white tuxedo cat who is currently very healthy. S took him to the vet, and he'd already been fixed. Apparently he was a dropoff. Anybody know of a home for a single double positive cat...
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    Cat hoarding relative

    Very bad news - a cat tested positive for both FeLV/FIV. Male, neutered, extremely friendly, black and white tuxedo cat who is currently very healthy. S took him to the vet, and he'd already been fixed. Apparently he was a dropoff. Anybody know of a home for a single double positive cat...
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    Cat hoarding relative

    You know, I am the kind of person who would just call the authorities, and not rescue the animals, because it's too much work and it's too likely to be for naught (have to call the authorities anyway eventually, and might lead to more animals surviving longer to suffer more). All I'm doing is...
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    Cat hoarding relative

    A vet who has been out to the property (and offered to geld the two stallions for free) said "the horses look good", a former friend of C (not a friend anymore because of the way C treats animals) said that the horses look good, expect for the hooves of one stallion, from standing in too much...
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    Too Skinny to Fix

    The cats are no longer too skinny to fix! The kittens are off of the property, being fixed and de-wormed and socialized and the like, and they'll be adopted out from the vet's office. Twenty-seven adults have been fixed, there are 5 more to be caught, S has borrowed traps and has a week to get...
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