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This animal is a raccoon, not a cat, but I don't know where else to ask and there are many knowledgeable people here and I know that kitties get abscesses a lot (my former feral had one). It's really a first aid question that probably applies to any animal. So I hope it is ok that I post here -...

I trapped this adult feral 2 1/2 years ago and been working on taming her ever since. When I brought her in the house for the winter (she lived in an outbuilding because she was too wild - taming her was a big project), the other cats jumped her and she moved into the dirt crawl space in the...

I am in rural MN.  I know a lot of cats come thru my yard, because I was feeding them last winter, with my feral cat Mamacat living in an outbuilding. I've moved her indoors. Thing is, those cats were coming into a very nice wood outbuilding, I put cat beds around, and they didn't stay. They...

I finally moved my about 4 year old feral mamacat into the house, after 2 years of taking care of her in an outbuilding in Minnesota (I had a cubby for her that I heated with heating pads etc).  She is tame in most respects now, after 2 years of work, except I can't really pick her up (but she...

I want to move my feral Mamacat into my home this fall (she is tame now, which was a major effort since she was an adult feral) but the vet says she has eye discharge almost for sure from a respiratory virus she had as a kitten (herpes or calcivirus). I googled it and see that the 2 most common...

I have another post about this topic from yesterday, with pictures. Feral kitty had a broken tooth; it abscessed, I had the vet pull the tooth from the lower jaw and I gave her antibiotics (baytril) for 6 days which was a CHALLENGE because she is a feral kitty. This was about 3 weeks ago. Well...

Ok, so MamaCat, my semi-tamed feral kitty, had a broken tooth on the left side, which I didn't know about, which abcessed, which was removed about 3 weeks ago by the vet. Idk which tooth.  I had her on Baytril, 22.7 mg tabs for 6 days (was supposed to be 7 but the cat is very difficult to give...

either the thing won't run (yesterday's attempt) or the fluid runs all over the cat and the floor (twice today). I can't place the needle right and the cat is very dehydrated. She has kidney failure and Inflammatory bowel disease and is seriously dehydrated, and I don't want her to crash.  I...

Kitty is most of the way tamed, but it took 2 years (she is a true feral).  I can't pick her up very well (she sort of freaks out and I do get scratched as she jumps off careless for my skin) and I don't trust her not to bite me if I give her medicine or put her in a carrier or hold her for a...

I tamed a feral cat (which has taken about 2 years and a lot of consistent effort) and she is almost ready to move into my house.  I have recently taught her to play by throwing leaves in the air and she chases them, and I'm working on chasing string now. When I play with her, sometimes she gets...

A relative of mine is going to need medical treatment for a few days, and his old cat (15 years old) only eats wet food.  My plan is to set up an automatic feeder with wet food in it, one that's designed with an ice pack and can feed a portion 5 times a day, and check on the cat once a day. It's...

Sorry so long, but else people always have follow up questions.  My cat Spitty, who is 14 and has IBD and being treated with metrodizamole (sp?) an antibiotic commonly used for IBD, is peeing and pooping around. Her blood tests are normal, tested for diabetes, kidney failure (albumin and...

My 14 year old spayed female (that's her pic above!) has had very loose stools (got worse as time went on) for about 4 months. Her 14 year old neutered brother doesn't have any problems like this.  A serious human family medical problem blew up at the time that I decided her problem wouldn't...

I live in a rural area, and "my" (she says she's hers) single feral in central Minnesota is living in a very nice, wood outbuilding for the winter with no access to the outdoors (she has a window perch, scratching post, heated cubby etc). I noticed fisher tracks through my yard, and I see from...

My 13 year old kitty was borderline high when last tested, and will probably need medication for this soon. She is an anxious cat, so I don't want to fuss her up too much. Are pill pockets likely to work? I am dubious. Thanks!

I've had this feral cat for several months, and had to keep her confined much of that time because she was pregnant right before I caught her, which I discovered only well into her pregnancy when i brought her in for a spay.   I kept her second kitten with her for weeks afterwards (my brother...

I love this site already!   I have 5 kitties for now, soon to be 4, Ptolemy, Huff, Spit n' Stomp, and a new feral kitty named Connie, who has a 1 week old kitten that will be going to my brother when he/she is big enough. Ptolemy is sick right now, maybe with CRF, and I'm giving him subQ...

My kitty Ptolemy (P is silent) is doing MUCH better now that I've had him on subcutaneous fluids for a week and a half (100 cc a night) but he's not eating well at all. I have tried over 20 different wet foods, and it's just a hit or miss thing, and Pepcid A/C didn't seem to help nor the...

I captured a feral Mama cat and her 4 or 5 week old kitten, and kept her in a cage for a few weeks until the single kitten was old enough to be taken away from her and she could be spayed (vet wanted kitten weaned 2 weeks before the spay). My brother adopted the tamed feral kitten. I brought...