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The things I say at home are nothing compared to things I say in front of clients while I am working with their cats. "Please don't bite my boob." "I swear, I'm not going to eat you." "Come here and stop wiggling, I want to look at your nipples." Of course, clients say some equally hilarious...

A couple of years ago a group of scientists got together an did DNA analysis on cats from around the world in an attempt to answer this very question.  They results were that our domestic cats are descended from wildcats found in Turkey and Syria, more specifically from Felis sylvestris lybica. ...

That was really sweet of the post office staff. Wonder how many letters to god they get a year?

betsygee- it depends on who made the liquid.  Some compounded versions need refrigeration to stabilize the flavoring components, most don't.  Metronidazole by itself is a very stable drug, we do not need to refrigerate ours. That being said, it can help to cut the taste if it is cold when...

I third the motion to visit the vet, she needs a senior kitty screening; physical exam, blood work (including a T4!) and urinalysis.  Good luck to you, and keep us updated!

You can always try adding a phosphorus binder like aluminum hydroxide to her food, it binds the phosphorus before it leaves the GI system and isn't absorbed either.  Everything just passes right through. All canned food is the best way to go diet wise, but some cats never catch on.  The most...

I agree with having the ultrasound done, look for a cardiologist, not just an ultrasonographer.(even if they are a DVM).  There is also a screening test called a NT pro-BNP that will tell you if you need to do an ultrasound or not but it is only a screening test, it doesn't tell you the why...

Oh so glad to hear she is feeling so much better!  Poor thing, everyone misjudging her gender, she sure doesn't look like a boy with those dainty feet and elegant face.  Hope she keeps improving, with luck she'll just improve back to normal and this will a blip in her medical history.  Best...

1.) Out of 4 cats, I have one that does the rub and smack to my dog.  She never uses her claws and I honestly think she is trying to get the dog to play with her.  For the dog's part, she just ignores the cat.  At feeding times the cat will rub on the dog a lot, sort of claiming her by scent...

Ha!  He just started playing with toys about 2 months ago.  His development was so delayed in so many ways it is weird to see him progress through almost a year's worth of learning in about 3 months.  Now, if we could just get him over his food obsession....

I wonder if she doesn't have a kidney infection, those don't always show up on culture, and the antibiotic you're giving her may not be the one that kills the infection the quickest.  Either way she is in stage 2 (early) renal insufficiency.  I would ask the vet for 3 things -a secondary...

I joined TCS because I was feeling a little overwhelmed with my cat's medical issues and just wanted people to talk "cat" with.  In particular when I first signed up here I had just adopted the most pathetic kitten to cross my doorstep in a while.  He was terribly underweight at 4 months old...

I've never paid to adopt a cat, given how my life goes I'll never have to! Callista was given to me by a coworker, Jasio and Hector both came from clients at work and The Niblet is a failed foster.  Where ever I go, I am blessed with cats.

There are a lot of reasons cats can have hypokalemia (low blood potassium) but genetics isn't very high on the list.  I suspect the lilies are actually the culprit in this case given that: -lily ingestion causes kidney failure -kidney failure is the most frequent cause of hypokalemia -the cat...

Just a few thoughts- Has he been tested for pancreatitis (A spec fPL or PLI test)? You said he eats well after getting pain control medications, right?  This is what made me think pancreatitis, combined with the smelly diarrhea incident. For one I'd ask the vet for an appetite stimulant...

Lysine won't hurt, but it is possible she just has the common shelter cat URI or is just a watery eyed cat.  So long as the eye discharge isn't yellow or green I wouldn't worry about that, I have two cats that always have crud in the corner of their eyes, it is just who they are.  If the...

I'm curious what her bloodwork looked like, did she have an elevated BUN and creatine?  What were her liver values like? I'd ask your vet to look for auto-immune disease, FIP would be on my list of of rule-outs as well since this could be a non-typical presentation.  Basically the virus hijacks...

I've used a couple of different compounding pharmacies with good results for pred, it doesn't have a strong taste so it is an easy one to compound.  If you're comfortable with the thought of doing at home injections, ask your vet for injectable pepcid (famoditine); injections make everyone's...