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Thanks @aurorabee, that's a really good point about wanting to examine the cats in their typical state -- that's tipping me more clearly toward not giving it to them (and then at the same time, maybe moving away from our vet who suggested it / feels she needs it for their exams). And thanks for...

Yeah I read that the taste is super bitter. I actually don't know how to pill cats :oops:. I've had to give a cat sub-q fluids, draw blood from around the ears for glucose testing, feed through syringe. But never pills so I'd have to figure that out as well. I appreciate getting more accounts...

Thanks, guys. Yes I'd understand if we were talking about them needing something like the cardiology exam or even a blood draw -- but this is just about the routine physical for my cats -- no blood, I reject the boosters for the vaccines so no shots. My sense of our vet was that she was...

Thanks, I appreciate you sharing your experience :)

Hi all, So at our last wellness appointment, vet left me with a bottle of gabapentin to give my 2 cats prior to subsequent visits. I struggle overall with many aspects of veterinary & western medical practices. There is strain involved in working with our current vet and getting through these...

Your vet story is pretty horrifying, sorry about your cat :bawling: Before my cat died, I had triumphantly gotten him to eat wet food (honest kitchen grace turkey) after a lifetime of kibble that was killing him, and his glucose stabilized. Because we thought he might have FIP, and the...

@sophie1 Precisely. You're right, I need to trust that Linus will eat what he needs (and ultimately I do). I haven't played around recently with feeding them in different rooms or levels, unless it's whole prey (for which different rooms is essential) but things have shifted. To update, Linus...

Thanks, Sophie. Linus's attitude about food doesn't actually bother me -- it's more my vet's reaction that there must be something wrong for him to be lean (and the fact that vomiting is not nil) that prompted me to stress. I sort of anticipated it, and do better with more laid back healthcare...

Yeah, so that's where we're at. Linus is definitely peculiar, but I don't think it's medical. I do wonder about whatever test she couldn't do since he hadn't fasted. Something to do with digestion I suppose. I figure if there is vomiting or weight loss, that test is where we will start. Separate...

Thanks for your support (and sorry for the delay)! I wanted to do blood work, since there's not much besides monitoring, and thus labs, that I need from their annual exams, but there was some reason we didn't do it -- maybe cost and her not being clear on what would be imperative to test? It...

Thanks. Yes, I'm going to journal and collect data in order to address the possibility that there is a GI or allergy issue, but my intuition *is* that this is just him. My vet has her skills, but seeing things from outside of her lens is not really among them (I haven't encountered anyone I like...

Thanks @susanandjose and @orange&white, and everyone for all the responses. Yes, my cats are very young still, and super athletic and energetic. I didn't realize it at the time, but I think what I saw as variable appetite may just have been food rejection due to the fish oil. Mouse ultimately...

Vomit (food) is not something I observe on a regular basis, though there have been discrete periods of time in which I observed an uptick. I'm planning to journal any incidents and what they ate in order to determine any pattern, and the true frequency etc. There was an increase in hairballs a...

I'll look for good photos to send (if I can't find any on my phone, then it will have to wait a couple of days because I'm out of town). Mouse has siamese heritage (he is a gray cat with a brother who was a blue-point -- his mom was very lanky, but he's not). Both cats are adopted, but I had...

Thanks. I realized as I was writing that I wasn't looking for anything in particular, so your experience definitely helps. I feed canned fish to my cats weekly as well, in addition to fish oil (about half the amount you feed), but wasn't sure I could feed it as a complete replacement for fish...

Hey, just wanted to check in with some questions about my cats' eating. They're 2.5 years, and I've been feeding them PMR since I got them as kittens. They're males, not littermates, and Mouse weighs about 12.5 pounds and Linus weighs about 8 pounds. Linus has always been a small cat -- at his...

Hey -- I just responded to your PM, but wanted to also address the questions in your post. The DE worked for us, with no negative effects. However in my case, it's totally possible that I had killed off the mites before I started the DE (though how DE acts as a pesticide is known and documented...

@Willowy  that's actually about 1/2 my calculations. I think it's conservative due to feeding variety and smaller prey costing more/ounce and high shipping costs etc. But hmmmmm, you have me thinking...

I order from Rodent Pro and for less than $200 a year my 2 cats can have a whole prey meal 1-2X/week (though I'd like to increase to one whole prey meal every other day). They have discounts on various products at any given time and I take advantage of these. I also buy a bag of baby mice --...

hmmmm Wellness complete and FF classic are pate style, so they're not going to be the texture you're used to with Fussie (which I'm thinking is like TikiCat -- that style of food is $$$). However, the odor of cat poop correlates with how biologically accessible their food is, largely, and since...