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  1. cat7bird

    vet gave us gabapentin for future vet visits and i'm skeptical.

    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...
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    Raw/homemade Fed Cats: Weight, Eating Patterns, Anxiety, Veterinary Misinformation

    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...
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    young cat, missing incisor, concern about dietary deficiency

    Hi all, I just noticed my cat, Mouse is missing one of his top incisors, and also the bottom incisors look weird -- like they're extra tiny and crooked and crowded (and there seem to be 7 of them, not 6, so maybe an extra tooth has crowded out the others). I tried and haven't been able to get a...
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    ear mites and diatomaceous earth (DE)

    Hi all. Has anyone used DE to kill ear mites? Or does anyone have any knowledge or thoughts about the safety and/or efficacy of putting DE inside of a cat's (or, well, 9-month old kitten's) ears? It just came up in a search and while I'm aware of many uses for DE, I had not come across it being...
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    chicken (or any) necks, and hyperthyroid risk

    Wondering -- is anyone concerned with feeding chicken necks for bone-in meals? I've fed these to my cats, and find them quite convenient as far as the ratio of meat to bone. However, my vet alerted me to thyroid problems developing as a result of raw food diets. I don't know if, say, 2-3 chicken...
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    raw feeding insatiable kittens

    Hi all, I have questions about raw feeding kittens, mostly concerning amount. Some backstory -- I have two kittens, Mouse is 5 months old and weighs 6.5 lbs., and Linus is 3 months old and weighs 3 lbs. They are amazing and healthy and energetic, loving their raw (prey model) diet, are gaining...
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    prey model -- anyone portion 80/10/5/5 balance in each meal?

    Hi all, I have two kittens who I've been feeding prey model raw (frankenprey / whole prey) for the past weeks since I've had them. I transitioned my senior cat to raw -- mostly ground and chunks of muscle -- before he died in the fall, so I'm not new to raw, but am new to feeding prey model...
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