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This post probably belongs on another forum, but I have no idea where, so  mods, please move it. For months now, I have been keeping my cat alive with fluids and hand feedings. As in my other posts, these feedings take 10-15 minutes each, and I have to stand with her and encourage her to eat...

As I have written before, my Wisner has late-stage renal disease. I am keeping her going with weekly fluids and daily spoon feedings of Fancy Feast.. She will eat only a tablespoonful at  time, so I am constantly interrupting everything to feed her. It takes her a good 10 minutes to eat that...

I am sorry to take up so much space today. I need one piece of advice, thanks for your patience. If I do not get Wisner the nausea shot, she will surely die soon. If I get it for her, she will also surely die soon. The shot may or may not prolong things a week, two weeks, a month. What would...

I am just agonizing over this. We all do. My Wisner has end-stage kidney disease and has lost half her weight. I am hand-feeding her: she will eat only a spoonful ate a time, so I have to stop everything I am doing (and stop sleeping, too) in order to get anything into her. The other 4 cats will...

Advanced renal disease, will have to put her down tomorrow. This is the third cat I will lose in one year. Heart all to all of us here on this board.

My little Wisner is hardly eating at all and she is hiding, without spirit. She is 14, and I fear she is on her way out. Any recommendations for food for this little one? I have tried baby food and Fancy Feast, but nothing appeals. And if anyone has had a cat hide away, how can I get her to...

I am going to lose my beloved Amato, my quiet, slow-moving, best friend. to kidney disease. It is advancing rapidly. I know all the things one can do to slow it, but he may be past the helping point. Any suggestions for making his remaining time good, and when will I know it is time to put him down?

Posts here have made me cry. I am missing mine so much tonight. The pain seems to hit at night more. I wish I could describe it - everyone here knows how much it hurts. My sweet Edward Simon, a tiny kitten, my Jonathan, my Christopher Thomas. I feel a bit guilty because they are in my thoughts...

I can free feed my cats. There are bowls of food all over the house, one in each room (at least). But they; won't eat out of the bowls. They all come to me and stare at me until I feed them - not in a bowl, but on the floor (or bed, or whatever flat surface is there. They act as if they can't...

I lost one male to oral cancer. Just a few weeks ago, I lost another to kidney disease. A routine exam today shows another male with beginnings of kidney disease. I am just beside myself. The fourth male had a blood clot in the aorta and can hardly walk, is at high risk for another clot. This...

I put down Christopher Thomas last week. At the same time, my ShakerToy was hit by a blood clot in the aorta which has paralyzed his hind legs. He can't walk, just drag himself a short distance across the floor, cannot stand or make it into the litter box. The vet says prognosis is poor. And I...

I had to put Christopher  Thomas down today. And when I got up this morning, my ShakerToy was on t he floor, writhing in pain, unable to walk. Took him emergency to vet. He has blood clot in aorta which stops circulat ion to both legs and tail. He is home on Fentanyl patch and other pain meds...

CT is rapidly losing more weight. I have to put him down, I think. Does anyone know if a cat with kidney disease who is losing weight is in pain? Thinking of all of you, Seaturtle

He had lost 3 pounds, from 11-8, and was not eating well at all, lethargic, staring off into space, making little chirping sounds. I finally got him in to the vet today. He has kidney disease and will have to spend several days there with more blood tests. Today's visit for me almost $900. I am...

I now have only 6 cats, all rescues, all around 13-14 years. Lately, they are just annoying me. They haven't changed, except becoming a bit scrappy because of having to be inside, but I am sick of being followed and being stared at, of demands for petting...I want maybe one hour a day to be by...

About a month ago, someone threw a cat over my 12' high cat fence into my garden. He was sitting on my porch when I woke up. I had no choice but to confine him in a room 9until I could get him to the vet (it was Saturday. The local shelter is over-full, and no one in this town will take a cat...

One of my cat has the rolling-skin syndrome, where he will suddenly start biting at himself while his skin rolls around, then runs around. This doesn't last long. Today, though, another cat has started that, biting and licking at his body as if something were biting him. I checked thoroughly...

Hi, I just found a small, red worm on my bed where my cats sleep. No fleas in sight. Does anyone know what this might be, please? Thanks so much!

My cat, Jonathan Edward Simon, has had what seem to be sinus infections every year. He sneezes, and a long yucky discharge (not green, but opaque white or a bit yellow) spurts out his nose. He's been on and off antibiotics. He gets all better after the antibiotics, then four, five months later...

Hello, everyone, I haven't posted for a while (reading, though). My cat Amato has been sneezing for several days. Nothing else - no discharge from nose or eyes, fever, loss of appetite. He is a bit logey, though. I called the vet, and she said to watch him for a few days more, then take him...