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Thanks for the feedback. I updated my post above to include information about the water situation. We tried a fountain with our previous cats. It didn't go well and we gave up.

We have two five-year-old boys, Andy and Ollie. We've had them since they were six-months-old. In the last couple weeks, Andy was acting a little weird about the litter box- going in and out repeatedly, somewhat frequently, pawing at the litter a lot. No other behavioral changes, eating &...

Oh duh, that’s all true. Ok, I feel better about it. Thanks!!

We try to avoid giving our cats any seafood-flavored foods. Occasionally, we'll give them some seafood we are eating (like a bite or two, or the liquid from a can of our tuna as a rare treat), because I was told that seafood has little nutritional value for them, it's bad to give them the...

We put Albus (the tuxie in my profile photo) to sleep a year ago April 5th. We think he was about 14, we'd had him for ten years. He was diagnosed with lung cancer a couple months prior. We'd been having our vet come to our house for the previous year and a half or so because he HATED going...

Ollie, who's about a year old, has this weird thing he does when he drinks water. He drapes one of his arms across the bowl while he's drinking; in the video below, it's his right arm, but I think I've seen him do it with the left, too. One theory I came up with is that because it's a big...

Looking for a new litter scoop to use in a Clevercat box with a liner. Something that’s less likely to tear the liner. This one has some not great reviews, mostly complaints about the handle breaking:

We are bringing home two new kittens today from the shelter I volunteer at. They're five months old. At the shelter, they're being fed dry kitten Science Diet and Fancy Feast wet kitten food. We have an 11-year-old cat now, Luna (the black cat in my photo). We feed Nutro Max Cat for dry...

An update to my previous thread. After a phone conversation with the surgeon at the specialty vet clinic who attempted to do the CT back in February, and talking to our regular vet, we've come to the conclusion that this is cancer and because of Albus's age and his prognosis even if we did do...

In early December, our vet came to the house to see Albus (he's the tuxie in my profile picture). His herpesvirus has been especially flared up lately. He gave him a shot of an antibiotics because he thought there could be a secondary infection. While he was here, he noticed that the fur at...

Eek. Ok, thanks for the info!

My coworker (first time cat owner) adopted a stray kitten she found in her parents’ backyard over the summer. The kitten was too small to be away from its mother, but mom was gone. I don’t know what my coworker did during that period of time, what she was feeding the kitten. I know the kitten...

Upon recommendation of this thread, I've been giving Albus lactoferrin mixed with lysine for about three weeks now. I have the Viralys gel. I follow the dosage on there- 1/4 teaspoon- and break open a Jarrow lactoferrin capsule and mix it together in a little medicine cup, then scrape it into...

I handfed mine for 10 weeks before he started eating on his own. I've told my story a few times over the boards; here's a link to the most comprehensive post about it. In January, it will be 10 years since all of that happened, which is hard to believe! Albus is still with us. His only malady...

Update?  Hope it was good news!

Has anyone ever used these? I need ear wipes for one cat (Luna) because she seems to have chronically yeasty ears.  I just cleaned them with Virbac Epi-Otic Advanced Ear Cleaner 3-4 weeks ago and they're already stinky and itchy again. I need eye wipes for the other cat (Albus) because he...

Are you hesitant to go back to the previous vet because you think he may have done something wrong?  I can't say if he did or not, but if that's not the issue, I'd ask for his opinion about what he wants to do, as long as you're still confident in his work. Either way, I'm glad you were able to...

Just started the lactoferrin yesterday.  Obviously it's too soon to tell how effective it is, but I'm pretty sure Albus is enjoying eating it.  Part of the problem when we were giving him lysine was that we were sprinkling on his wet food and there was no way to tell how much he was actually...