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I have one cat that started battling stomatitis in 2020. She eventually had to have all her teeth out, but I still have to medicate her to keep it under control. Then, a second cat of mine started experiencing it last year, resulting in another full mouth extraction. I took another one of my...

A couple of weeks ago, I was cat-sitting for a friend who has one cat who, as far as I know, has no contact with other cats. One day, he had some loose stool that caused a mess, but quickly recovered. I don't know how he would have contracted it, but there were two of us splitting cat-sitting...

I hadn't thought about it that much, but my 15 year-old female cat used to know her name and respond to it. But it's been a while since she did that. She's been on a lot of medications for a combination of hyperthyroidism and stomatitis, plus she's had two oral surgeries. (I read that surgical...

I just can't take the fine dust from clay litter anymore. It gets everywhere, on everything. I've lived with it for years, and I'm reaching the breaking point. I'm tired of keeping things covered with old sheets just to keep the dust off. I feel like I could vacuum seven days a week and never...

My 15 year-old Liza has both hyperthyroidism and chronic feline gingivostomatitis. As I posted last week, after two years, we've been having trouble keeping her thyroid levels properly controlled with methimazole, so I was going to do radioiodine 131 treatment, but to do that, we had to take...

I'd decided to go ahead with radioiodine treatment for my 15 year-old cat, Liza, and the only local facility around here says she needs to have her thyroid levels checked after being off methimazole for 14 days to determine dosage. I cleared doing this thoroughly with her regular vet. She's now...

I've been treating one of my cats for hyperthyroidism with methimazole for a couple of years, but her values keep climbing, so we're looking at radioiodine treatment. I've had lots of diagnostic tests run on her, including an echocardiogram and a thyroid ultrasound. She's 15, but still otherwise...

I'm mildly curious as to how many cats like cantaloupe. I've known for years that some of my cats like it, but I was reminded tonight when I had some and one of them walked right up on the table after it. I'm wondering if it's a genetic thing because I have had a group of cats that are all...

Since 2021, I've had three older cats die, one from abdominal lyphoma (age 13), one from a stroke (age 16), and the latest from an abdominal tumor (age 16). All three were getting regular veterinary checkups with full bloodwork. We had to put my mother's 16 year-old to sleep yesterday, and she...

My 3.5 year-old health male cat likes to go over to my mother's house because he's infatuated with my mother's cat. I have to go help her with dinner every night, so it's often a daily thing. Yesterday, he seemed under the weather and wasn't eating, so I booked a vet appointment for tomorrow...

One of my TNR barn cats was TNR'd back in 2012, and she has proven to be a smart survivor. Obviously, her rabies vaccine has expired and we're past the point where there's any protection remaining. Despite years of attempting to socialize with her, she's remained stubbornly a barn cat. She...

A vet has been treating a cat of mine for an ongoing issue, and she recently moved to a different practice, so I went to the new practice because I think continuity of care is important for this case. They gave her a dose of Convenia today and charged $97 for it. I looked at some older invoices...

I'm guessing that the patent expired that made Revolution the only available brand of selamectin, and now the price of Revolution is about 50% higher than it used to be, making it prohibitively expensive. Have people used the new Senergy brand of selamectin?

I ordered a Petkit water fountain to encourage my cats to drink more water. I have six cats in the household due to a couple of foster failures. I figured that maybe one of them would use it and the others would copy that behavior, but, to my surprise, they all just kind of sniffed at it and...

I actually treat two hyperthyroid cats daily with transdermal methimazole, my own cat and my mother's. I always carefully wear gloves when applying it, but I'm wondering if I may be getting exposed just by my cat cleaning herself, wiping her ears with her paws, and distributing it over her coat...

Being a volunteer rescuer, I have had some foster failures, so I have ended up with 6 cats in the house, their ages being 15, 13, 12, 10, 5, and 3, five males and one female (13), all spayed/neutered (obviously). The 3 year-old, named Cole, was one I found at my TNR colony when he was ~8 weeks...

My mother's cat (my cat's sister) is approaching 16 and had been having pretty obvious problems with arthritis, so the vet started her on Dasuquin Advanced ~8 months ago. I was a bit skeptical about the effectiveness, but I've been religiously giving her a full capsule every day. Interesting...

After losing her brother 7 months ago to lymphoma, my 13 year-old sweet little girl has been tentatively diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma. I'm heartbroken. The vet did a biopsy, but I get the feeling it's just to confirm what she already knows. She was given a steroid injection to...

My 13 year-old calico has developed chronic sniffles, and she's been having problems with gingivitis/stomatitis for a couple of years. She had to have most of her teeth removed as a result of the gingivitis. She was treated at the end of December with a combination of Convenia and steroid...

This is perhaps more about me than about my cats, but I recently did an early spring-cleaning of my house, going into rarely-accessed corners and bookshelves, cleaning and vacuuming everything. There was a fine coat of litter box dust pretty much everywhere. Now, over the past year, I've been...