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Piglet is 16.5, chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, FORL. Also feline herpes that causes her eyes to weep, the left much more than the right (this has been going on since she was around a year old and has gotten better/worse multiple times). We suspect Piglet lost almost (if not...

I'll try to make the background short: Piglet will be 14 this September. She was diagnosed with CKF about five years ago, FORL about four years ago (has had all teeth except the tiny front ones removed), early congestive heard failure, very mild asthma, and feline herpes. Whew. Piglet's kidney...

Piglet is my CKF/FORL cat. She'll be 12 next month. Over the last year, Piglet's kidney numbers have been stable (I've been very careful with her diet). Last summer she had most of the rest of her teeth extracted - she only has the teensy tiny ones in the front left, everything from canines back...

we discovered piglet was in mid-stage kidney failure about a year and a half ago - she needed dental work done and her blood work showed horrible kidney levels. during a consult for dental surgery, it was discovered she had feline odontoclastic resorptive lesions and all four canines needed to...

we're still working on the new puppy and the cats being friends. it's a slow process.  i'm very protective of piglet, my CKF cat, because she's my oldest and the sickest cat. when the puppy, ali, chases piglet, piglet runs and of course ali thinks she's playing. tonight piglet jumped off the...

is there a site like this for dogs, with great people and awesome information? i'm interested in transitioning my puppy to homemade or possibly raw once we're at the 6 month mark. when i made my cat's food this week, i took some of the most well done chicken and ground it up for the dog.  i...

so dh and i had been talking about adding another cat as a playmate for jake.  thankfully we were talked out of that.  unfortunately we had been considering getting a dog on and off for almost a year.  the last two months, the discussion had become more and more serious - especially after jake's...

We noticed Piglet straining at the box yesterday and her bottom looked a little upset - we think she has been constipated.  I’m considering adding a bit of pumpkin to her food only… but then I thought maybe it would benefit all three cats?  Piglet has chronic kidney failure but has maintained...

jake has been a bit of an issue the last few months... i spoke about it a bit here:  http://www.thecatsite.com/t/290069/still-having-trouble-with-jake.  short story is he started seriously bullying our younger female but will play with the older female.  he also bit me once due to...

been doing some research on prepared raw foods to try and get some more variety for my fur family.  i'm still making their slightly cooked chicken but have been rotating with turkey stella & chewy's now that i can find it.  has anyone used darwin's pet food?  and does anyone else have any...

so samantha is my most 'normal' cat (which is saying a lot) but she has a few quirks.  like she has no sense of smell and gets these tiny growths on her pads that i snip off with nail clippers.  perhaps the strangest thing we catch her doing regularly is hissing herself awake.  samantha sleeps...

i have three cats - piglet is a 10 year old female, samantha is an almost 9 year old female, and jake is a 5 year old male suspected bengal mix.  all are rescues, all are spayed/neutered.  we used to be a 4 cat household - my oldest died 3/2012 at 16.  piglet and samantha fought at first but...

i'm sick of waiting for stella & chewy's to come back in stock everywhere so i'm going to go back to home cooking ASAP.  however, the liver and heart are no longer something i can do for numerous reasons.  should i just add more taurine, or should i get a liver powder like what feline instincts...

our jake has been a challenge since day 1.  he was a feral taken in by a home-based shelter network in central florida.  he seems to have been thrown from a car based on his injuries - his right leg is a mess but was already healed when we adopted him.  jake came into a home with three cats - an...

i was brushing him and he was a bit assertive (as is his norm).  jake was biting at the brush - really hard.  my husband was there, too.  jake likes having his cheeks brushed so i was going to do that again and i guess i wasn't paying close enough attention to where my fingers were and he bit my...

not sure if anyone else has been trying to buy stella & chewy's for weeks, but i have.  and i've not been successful.  my local independent pet store is full of dog varieties and snacks, but no cat food.  one of the employees told me the food has been on backorder for some reason. so i...

so i was a very bad cat mom.  earlier this month we went away and had a cat sitter in.  because jake is very, very afraid of other people, we decided to buy a small bag of kibble.  the sitter fed it to the three cats on time a day with the idea that jake would come out whenever he wanted and eat...

i was having trouble sourcing chicken hearts for my three cats.  the last three weeks they've been eating canned - merrick, weruva, wellness pates.  today when i called my local meat market, they had chicken hearts again!  so i spent the afternoon cooking up chicken thighs and hearts and livers...

piglet has recently started having what i believe to be psychomotor seizures.  when my old cat taylor   started showing symptoms of kidney failure, he began having psychomotor seizures.  he would snap at nothing, usually on the ground but occasionally in the air, his back and neck and ears would...

so, it's not great.   first blood is the day they were first going to do surgery, second is after 3 weeks on modified, non-raw diet and lots of antibiotics.  third is pre-surgery after 20 hours on iv fluids. the second and fourth are very similar which make me think that the most recent...