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Tomorrow Bertha will be euthanized. She has an inoperable lump on her throat that her vet has reluctantly admitted is cancerous. Having Mr. Grimsby (the cat in the photo) euthanized a few years ago gives me some experience with this, but I'll never be properly prepared. We love our cats and they...

I'm not sure if this belongs in cat health or cat nutrition. There was a thread several years ago about a study that suggested a correlation to pop-top cat food cans and hyperthyroidism. Bertha is 11 years old and has just been diagnosed. She is now on 5 mg methazole twice a day. We have a...

I've also posted this in the Cat Health forum, but thought it might be appropriate here: The video attached to this posting is disturbing, but the lady took her cat to the vet immediately after making this recording and the cat has since recovered. If what she writes about this product is true...

I'm not sure where this post belongs, so I invite the moderators to move it to the right spot. The video attached to this Facebook post is disturbing, but if it's true that the Gold Medal product caused this reaction in her cat, it's important that we all become aware of the problem: <iframe...

Well, you could if I could get him out from underneath the bed, anyway. At least, that's where we think he is... Cats are such excellent hiders, aren't they! I'm not sure if it's too soon after losing Mr. Grimsby on March 20th, but we adopted a one-year old from the local shelter yesterday...

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Kelly and Angel Ungo shared this poem privately with me on BigTent, another forum for cats with health issues. It brought back all the grief I've felt over the past two weeks, but its words are healing in the end. I apologize if it makes you cry, too, but I hope you find some comfort in it: If...

Hi, everyone. Mr. Grimsby  (15+ years), hasn't been doing well lately. I took him to a couple of vets to figure out why he wasn't eating and threw up when he did. The "second opinion" vet took several x-rays and said Mr. G was suffering from a terrible arthritic flare-up in his spine. He said he...

Hey, everyone. I've been off the grid for a while because we moved recently. I have terrific news I wanted to share with everyone. You might think of this as a cautionary tale, too, if you have an older cat. Mr. Grimsby is between 15 and 17 years old (when we adopted him, we were told he was 3...

I'm not sure where this could be posted, but it could be termed "behavior". We expect to move within the next few months. Mr. Grimsby and Bertha have never lived anywhere else with us. Our new location will be just a few hours away from where we are now, so I don't think the move itself will be...

I forgot to mention this in my earlier post. We heard a special program on the radio this weekend - a new classical CD of music dedicated to cats. We really liked the few cuts we heard, so we bought the album on iTunes and played it for the cats that evening. Mr. Grimsby (ever the sophisticate)...

Hi, everyone. I've been mulling over an issue and thought this would be a great place to get input/feedback. I had several houseplants before I got Mr. Grimsby and Bertha. Now, I've learned that all of them are toxic to some degree for cats - one of them may even be lethal! And I understand that...

I've attached four photos of Mr. Grimsby, our 15-year-old rescue. As I may have mentioned in another post, we were told he was a Russian Blue when we got him from the shelter. The first vet he went to said that he looks more like a Korat. So, I've been scanning photos of the two breeds on the...