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Long story short.... we x-rayed Jinx yesterday to check for bladder stones since he was acting painful, and discovered no bladder stones, but he does apparently have bad spondylosis which we are assuming is the culprit. We put him on a course of Onsior to see how he does. I could see a pretty...

Where to start! About 2 weeks ago, I brought Jinx in for his annual exam + bloodwork. Everything looks fine except he had struvite crystals in his urine, which I at least know weren't present when he had his urine checked for his annual last year. His pH was also high at 8.0, last year it was...

Anybody here have experience with Dasuquin? Do you feel like it helped? My boy is 13 and gets around  well and doesn't act like he's bothered. He stills runs and plays, still sneaks up on the kitchen counters. If I've noticed anything, it's just that he's a little slow with stairs. Overall...

I get Jinx's food from a local place that grinds and packages their own mixes. For the most part, he gets fed chicken and pork, and both of these grinds include  meat, bones, & organs. However his stool is way too firm and he has been pooping outside his litter box, and I am assuming the hard...

My cat is hospitalized for the weekend because he blocked. I was at work this morning but since this has happened before, my mom knew to be paranoid about his behavior (vomiting, lethargic, not eating, no urine in litter box) and she brought him in to the clinic I work at. We ran a urinalysis...

What do you all do to prevent hairballs? Jinx had never really had a problem with them until he was switched to raw. It seems like every week, he's hacking up a big wad of fur. We are mostly "okay" with this since throwing up a hairball is still much better than when he was throwing up because...

Jinx has been doing GREAT on raw. So great in fact, that he is feeling a little too well, because now he is being super naughty. All of a sudden he has decided he LOVES his food, and he is eating at least double what he had been eating (not a bad thing - he needs to gain weight and I don't...

I recall reading somewhere that raw pork shouldn't be fed to cats. Is that true? I used to feed my dog raw and I know pork is always highly recommended as a good source of red meat for them... some people choose not to feed it because of being worried about trichinella, but the general belief is...

Well, with all of Jinx's issues with his IBD, we're going to give raw a shot. He hadn't responded to the medications he'd been on and he wouldn't eat the prescription diet (smart cat ), so I'm taking matters into my own hands! And as much as my mom hates raw, she's reluctantly agreed to let me...

Let me just preface this by saying... I work at a vet clinic... I have pilled A LOT of cats! But my own cat is THE WORST.   He is on metronidazole right now for his recently diagnosed IBD. I think we have about 5 more days left of it, and he gets it twice a day. But I can never get the full...

Anyone know anything about this food, or use it before?  I posted a few weeks ago about Jinx, who was on C/D but he was vomiting up a storm so I switched his food. And it seemed to help at first but then he went right back to his old vomiting self. So I brought him to work with me yesterday...

Okay, this might end up being super long but I'm going to try to just jump into the situation... Jinx is a 10 year old neutered male. For the first 6 or so years of his life, he ate Iams. He would vomit, on average, about once a day while on this, but was healthy and normal otherwise so we just...

Eek, haven't been on here in a looooong time! Basically, Jinx hates one of my dogs. HATES her. She's an 11 month old boxer, and we've had her since she was 8 weeks old so there's been plenty of time for him to "get over it." He's fine with our other dog and he was fine with the boxer we used to...

Any opinions on this food? I'm thinking of switching Jinx to this, but I don't know... I know raw is the best, but I'm not sure how the frozen pre-made stuff measures up to homemade raw diets. Even if it's not as good... I'm assuming it couldn't be any worse than kibble? I'd love to do a...

Oi... I'm not really sure where to start with this. About last Thursday, I started to notice that my cat, Jinx, was not acting like himself. He was sneezing a lot, his breathing sounded very "rattly", he was pretty lethargic and wanted nothing to do with people--which is very unusual because in...