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My Siamese, Lucy, came to me in 2009 as a stray. She had a rough set of teeth at the time, so the vet that I took her to thought she was already an elder kitty. She guessed her to be 10 years old back then. Well that would make her 24 this year so I doubt she is 24, but she is certainly pushing...

Hello everyone! My Olivia had a bout of hepatic lipidosis a few months ago. I got her back to Health luckily. They did an ultrasound and a fine needle aspirate and confirmed it was hepatic lipidosis. Her liver enzymes and bilirubin were also very elevated. I took her back for a check up after...

So Olivia 🐈‍⬛ went on a hunger strike for some reason and now she’s jaundice and not well. Blood work showed elevated liver enzymes - specifically Bili and ALP. Ultrasound showed potential possibilities of hepatic lipidosis, cholangiohepatitos, or hepatic lymphoma. They did a fine needle...

So I've noticed my girl Bonnie (5 years old) grooming her genital area more than normal over the past few days. Monday evening, she started walking backward a bit and then was fine. Tuesday evening, I noticed her walking in a couple of circles and then was fine. She's still licking herself...

This picture look familiar to anyone? I’m making an appointment for Olivia (she is four) this week. This has been going on for a little over a week now. I thought it was an allergy to something but I thought it would have gone away on its own by now. She is always carrying stuff in her mouth...

Thanks to everyone who was so helpful to me about Roscoe. As a refresher, he was diagnosed with CHF a couple of months ago. Before then, he was not letting me sleep - kept waking me up every couple of hours to feed him. What's happened now is that his glucose was elevated so I put him on...

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on my 16 year old boy Roscoe. He would not let me sleep - every couple of hours he would wake me up and if I did not get up, he would pee on me or the floor near me. I decided to isolate him at night in my spare bathroom with food, water, litter box, and a...

My Roscoe will be 16 this July and over the past few months, he has decided to try and wake me up every couple of hours to feed him. He will only eat canned food now and if I don't get up to feed him, he pees on my sheet or on the carpet near me. I've taken him in for a full workup and there...

My 11 year old was diagnosed in 2009 with GI Lymphoma (high grade) and was treated with the CHOP Protocol for 5 months.  He went into remission for 4 years, and they re-did the CHOP.  We got a year of remission this time so they tried Lomustine and Elspar - both did nothing.  Now, we're trying...

Hi all. I have some questions but first a little history of the problem. Back in May of 2007, I took my Siamese, Simon, to the kitty ER. He was diagnosed with Idiopathic Vestibular Disorder. A couple of days in the hospital and he was fine afterwards. The head tilt went away, he was back to...

Has anyone out there had any experience with Feline Heartworms? My Siamese, Simon, has been having coughing spells off an on for the past two years. Two years ago, he got x-rays, an echo on his heart, and a bronchoscopy. Also had a heartworm test that showed negative. All that to not find...

I realize that vomiting can mean hundreds of different things. What I'm suspecting this time is a food change problem. Our vet put two of our cats on Hills W/D because it has more fiber than some foods out there. The additional fiber was added due to loose stools that the two cats have...

Hi all. Roscoe's not feeling very good today - he's 16 months old. Yesterday, he vomited yellow and green stuff - never seen the green before (is bile green?). My husband thought catnip, but he hasn't been in any. I keep it in the closet. He won't keep any food down and now he's not even...

Last week, my mom put her 14 year old cat, Precious, to sleep due to liver failure. Today, her little 6 month old kitten, Bubba, was killed by neighbor Rotweilers (sp?). I couldn't believe it when I heard it. My mom's been through so much. My step-dad commited suicide back in 1994 and she still...

Just trying to see an opinion out there about Roscoe's diarrhea. History: Roscoe has a hole in his heart and a mitral valve defect and is about 14 months old now. When we neutered him (back in January) the cardiologist put him on Cephalexin in case any bacteria landed on that mitral valve...

Has anyone had a Bronchoscopy done on one of their furbabies? We took Simon in for an ultrasound this morning to have his heart checked out and his heart is fine. They think the problem is in his lungs....Allergic Bronchitis, Asthma, etc. They're doing the Bronchoscopy tomorrow around...

I'm not used to having kitties with stubborn hairball problems, but we're having a time with this one. Simon has been hacking up a pretty good one about once a month. Lately, he's been stretching that neck out and hacking but no hairball. I've been dosing him 1/2 tsp twice a day for about 4 days...

My cat has had bladder problems pretty much his whole life - no plugs, no stones, no crystals, rare bacteria, sometimes RBC, rare WBC - mostly just inflammatory and no infection. He eats Science Diet Light Dry and I feed him canned food which I mix with water to give him more water. He...

Roscoe had his cardiologist checkup today as he is 6 months old and it's time to neuter him. He was diagnosed 3 months ago with mitral valve dysplasia and a ventricular septal defect. Today we found out that the problem hasn't really progressed other than his heart has only slightly enlarged...

Does anyone out there know how fasting affects a Free T4 reading? My Simon had blood work done. His T4 (RIA) was in range with 2.79 out of .8 to 4. But his Free T4 was 90.8 with a range of 10-50. He wasn't fasting, but seems odd that one would be in range and not the other. Also, he's...