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Hi.  Lucy went to the vet today for a cough.  He took an x-ray.  Her heart and lungs are fine.  But he did ask, "What has she been eating?"  There was a good bit of bone at the top of her stomach.  (I'd say maybe it took up about 1/4 of her stomach.)  He seemed a little alarmed (but I'm sure he...

First, I'm putting this in this forum and not the health because I'm hoping some tweaking of the food will help.  BUT, Lucy has had problems with her anal glands not emptying on her cheap, mostly dry food shelter diet and on her raw diet (mostly Hare Today ground with alnutrin.)  I have read...

Hi.  I'm guessing from things I've learned on this forum that my cats are getting too much bone right now.  They eat ground raw (meat with bone and organ with alnutrin added) from Hare Today....mostly chicken, rabbit and turkey.  It makes me so nervous that they would get constipated without me...

Hi.  Our 4 cat family gets along well for the most part.  Our newest addition Lucy (6 years, spayed as an adult after having kittens) was befriended quickly (after an isolation period) by our Eko (2 years, neutered at 4 months.)  She is also friendly with our other male cat (Leo, 2 years...

Hi.  I'm putting this in the raw forum since I feed raw.  Emily is 2 years old and was holding steady at 9.6 lbs for a while.  The vet said that was a good weight for her.  Then about a year ago I started giving the kitties one CET oral hygiene chew each day and they all gained a pound in two...

I just read this on a package of Blue Wilderness kibble....this was one of the benefits touted on the back of the package.... And yes, our dirty little secret here is that my cats do get a very small spoonful of kibble as a midday snack.  I went with Blue Wilderness because it is grain free and...

My cats have eaten it for breakfast twice this week and love it!!  Even my Eko, who is suspicious of new things, ate most of it on the second try.  My cats are eating mostly Hare Today raw (with alnutrin added.)  But we have a local holistic pet food store and I picked up a 2 lb chub of Bravo...

Hi.  Since August we've been adding raw into our cats' diets.  Three of our four are eating 50% raw, 50% grain free canned.  One (Lucy, stomatitis kitty) is eating 100% raw.  I just traveled for a week and my husband did great feeding the kitties raw!    However, if we ever travel together I...

My Eko, age 2, had a check up today.  In August he had his first dental cleaning because he had horrible tartar build up for such a young cat.  His gums were inflamed and bled some during the cleaning.  JUST 3 and a half months later (today) it was evident that he has two cavities or lesions on...

Lucy needed a steroid shot for her stomatitis.  And, as you may know, steroids can suppress the immune system.  I did read over a recent thread on feeding raw to an immune compromised cat.  I noticed that the safest way to go may be the pathogen free foods (Stella and Chewy's, NV and Primal.)...

I know all the negative side effects.  But I guess I need a bit of a pep talk from people and pets who have seen positive benefits. Despite our best efforts to treat Lucy's stomatitis without steroids, the vet gave her a depo medrol shot today. I was beside myself when he used the phrase...

I was at the holistic pet food store and was given samples of this yesterday.... http://www.thehonestkitchen.com/products/prowl/ I was also given a sample of the Grace (turkey) flavor. I was intrigued because I had never seen or heard of this brand.  One thing I couldn't quite tell....is it...

So, my cats all love ground raw.  (Right now they are eating 50% ground raw, mostly Hare Today and 50% grain free canned.)  Every two weeks or so I cook a whole chicken and offer the "innards", raw, to the cats.  Leo and Lucy love the raw chunks.  Emily and Eko look at them like, "Are you sure...

Lucy has three issues I'm worried about so we are visiting the vet tomorrow am.  1) I posted recently about her cat cold.  It is getting better but she isn't 100%  better yet.  She's well enough that I probably wouldn't visit the vet if this was the only issue.  2) I'm still wondering about how...

I've got 4 cats, 3 of whom probably have one of the kitty cold viruses (herpes or calici) latent in their systems.  I'm usually pretty good at figuring out when a vet visit is necessary but am wanting to make sure I'm working on good assumptions.  (Our newest, Lucy, has a cold right now and I'm...

Hi.  My four domestic shorthairs have been getting snacks of raw food (NV chicken and S&C chicken and turkey) and have moved up to getting a meal of raw food each day (HT chicken, tried rabbit a couple of times.)  The S&C really just gets used as treats and toppers since it is so expensive.  But...

So it is day 15 since Lucy had all her teeth extracted behind the canines.  (She is being treated for severe stomatitis.)  Her recovery has been up and down.  The "ups" were right after a pain patch and right after a low dose steroid shot.  Here's the timeline.... Day 2 after surgery - seemed...

Our newly adopted kitty Lucy (formerly Sharon when we were fostering her) has had much more pressing concerns than the state of her coat....but I have been curious about it for a while. Just 6 weeks ago she was dirty and matted in spots, had health problems (URI and stomatitis), and had been on...

We've been considering adopting a 4th cat since January, but had cold feet and would browse adoption events and petfinder but weren't sure whether we were ready.  In early July we visited a no-kill shelter because we noticed on petfinder that they had several sweet sounding female cats in the...

We will officially adopt our foster cat, Sharon, on Saturday.  I've posted before about her severe stomatitis.  We've replaced her shelter name with her new forever name, Lucy. Lucy had major dental extractions (every tooth behind the canines) yesterday.  She spent the night at the vet, but...