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My 10yo male Kee-gee started blimping up mid-January until one day I was looking at him and he looked like a walking cantaloupe. I took him in to my vet who identified his abdominal swelling as a giant accumulation of fluid. The vet performed: a blood panel (came back normal); an x-ray...

I'm in a little bit of a quandary.. I have 3 cats who've been eating Primal raw nuggets (turkey, rabbit, beef & salmon, chicken) for over five years without any issue. Sort of suddenly, pre-Thanksgiving, all 3 of them were throwing up (alot) with loose diarrhea and refusing to eat. None of...

I'll try and keep this short to keep it interesting. I am an older guy who has had cats for years and years. I have three middle-aged cats (9, 9, 14) currently. They don't go out, eat a pretty routine and healthy diet, and have all been in excellent health. Within the last two weeks, one...

A close friend died recently. Her 10yo male was tranferred to the NJ-SPCA per her will and he was doing terrible in a shelter type environment - so I stepped in and picked him up today. Looking over his medical records, he has a history of struvite blockages. He came home with Purina Urinary...

So, some may remember that I have two 4yo brothers: Kyle & Keegie.  They are very laid back generally. I recently lost a 5yo, Kinney to lymphoma.  So up until September, it was the three of them.  Kinney was always the star of the show and was VERY motivated with toys, made up games, involved...

I am an officianado of cat toys.  We have tried so many, my guys are bored with most of them.  One of my guys has recently been very sick and my mother took pity of me and sent me a toy called "The Cat's Meow" featured on TV.  Actually, with the TV offer - you get two of them.  I was skeptical...

I was reading various threads here where total carbohydrate contents (listed as %) of commercial kibble were being quoted, so I went to check a few bags I had around to see how mine fared. I don't see any carbohydrate percentages listed on the bags at all - none of the mfrs. Where are you...

Kyle and Keegie are two 4yo brothers who eat like horses, love canned food and flirt around with licking things like bloody chicken packages and raw eggs, so I thought it would be a snap to get them to eat raw.  Well wrong. I have tried putting out sample pieces of Primal beef and vension...

I am documenting my ongoing story of my 5yo male cat Kinney, of whom I am very fond.  He has two 4yo male housemates who are brothers.  All three get along swimmingly.  This all started in late spring with the three of them hauling up mice from the basement, one after the other - a seemingly...

I know that when cats return from the vet after surgery, the remaining cats in the household don't recognize the returning ones because of scent. I will quarantine the returning cats for a while in their own room, but wondered what suggestions anyone had to speed up the process? I searched...

I have had a bad year. My two twin silver tabby brothers both passed away this year who were the light of my life, granted they were 17yo but I was not ready for the story to end. I also lost a 3yo feral who had lived outdoors since he was a kitten in a shelter I had built for him, who I took...

Over the last two months, I had two back-to-back deaths in my three cat household. Both of the deaths were related to kidney failure and were not instantaneous, but rather prolonged affairs with me constantly hovering over the sick cats with food, medicines, needles, etc. My one year old...

Over the last months, I have been domesticating a feral cat into the household. Innocently, as part of our group training I started giving my three cats a small handful of Friskies Party Mix on a nightly basis thrown on the carpet. They all went wild for them and seemed to look forward to our...

I have a four year old "formerly feral" who lived out on my patio for years, but who voluntarily came indoors last February due to illness (cat flu). It took him two months in the basement to recover from that and another four months of intensive training thereafter to acclimate him to indoor...

I have a one year old male (Kinney) who since I got him has nagged and pestered every waking moment to be fed canned food. He seemed to like all flavors and would gobble down his entire bowl in record time, oftentimes also eating the remains of my other two adults bowls before they were even...

I have a feral black cat who lived exclusively outdoors for 3 years until this winter when he got sick and surrendered himself to my care. I took him in and have made remarkable progress with his health and in domesticating him during his 6 weeks in the basement. He is sweet as can be and...

I have had an ongoing health problem relating to my two resident adult cats and a newly introduced kitten. see post: http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=186495 It has been my observation that my 16yo Kevin (who lost his brother several months ago who was his lifelong companion) was...

I am a new member and let start off by saying that I have had now two sets of cats living into the 16-18 yo range, some 35+ years of cat keeping. I suppose that I have been lucky that I have never had so much as a sniffle or sneeze from anyone. My cat family starts off with an indoor purebred...