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Hi Kit-tmom, I'm hopeful that you might be able to share add’l information re: your baby's brain tumor. I recently lost my baby girl, she was 17yrs old, I’d rescued her when she was 2. She passed away 3 wks ago suddenly at home, but I still don't know what caused her death (i'm guessing a brain...

Hi! I just read your post re: trying hairball remedies for constipation.  Did you find any hairball remedies that worked?   My girl suffers from constipation.  Tried pumpkin with no success, so I'm looking into trying Miralax.  Like you, I'm not keen on pumping her little body with chemicals...

Hi everyone!  My 15yo girl was recently diagnosed (3 weeks ago) with her first case of colitis without diarrhea.   A little background: She's been eating Wellness grain-free canned food for the past 13yrs and I always mix in 1-2tbsp of water with her meals to ensure adequate water intake.  She...

Hi Char1963,  I actually haven't made much headway towards improving her arthritis :(  You could try looking into the Assisi Loop with is a targeted PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic frequency) device.  She may have slightly improved on it.   Laser therapy is also something that people have had good...

Hi thank you so much for the wealth of information!   She's been on Wellness grain-free canned food for the past 13yrs.  I add 1-2tbsp of water to each meal (4x per day).   She was put on Miralax when she was first diagnosed with constipation. We never reached the soft bowel movement or...

Hi, thank you for the reply.  I had her Miralax previously (mentioned in my post) and it appeared to make the problems much worse, causing her to strain to poop wherever she was laying.  I don't know if the pumpkin can cause the same problems.  She's been on the pumpkin for about 7 days and just...

I hope you can help me.   My 15yr old girl is struggling with constipation for the 1st time. Her normal schedule is to poop every other day. The constipation began a couple of weeks ago.  The first time I saw her struggling, she repeatedly went back/forth to her litter box trying to poop. She...

Hi friends, I'm relocating from sunny Miami to Chicago.  I love Chicago but the winters I've heard are terrible.  My beautiful feline is 15yrs old and has arthritis; therefore I'm scared of whether the cold climate will hurt her. :-/ I realize that she'll be inside but is there anything else I...

Hi Friends, My 15yr old has been diagnosed with arthritis (she was actually diagnosed 3yrs ago).  I've been adding Cosequin to her food for the past 3yrs and have made adjustments around the house to help (pet stairs, memory foam mattress) and I've tried laser therapy.  My vet didn't want to...

Hi friends, I'm hopeful you can help me.  I'm relocating to another state in 2 weeks for a 6-month work contract, and I have been trying to find a nice, spacious fully furnished rental that we (I and my baby girl) can slide into seamlessly online.  It's been quite a challenge because you can...

Hi everyone, My girl normally poops once every other day (I've had her for 13yrs, so this was her "normal" cycle).  She was previously on Wellness grain-free canned food, but after a recent bout with pancreatitis, we switched her temporarily to Purina Prescription Gastroenteric canned.  She...

Thank you so much for your feedback! Yes, I agree that the low-fat theory to treat pancreatitis isn't proven.  She had 7 attacks of pancreatitis about 2 years ago (each attack spaced 1 month apart) but we learned that her parathyroid glands had tumors growing on them which caused her calcium to...

Hi there!  I'm potentially going to switch my baby to a raw diet (maybe RadCat) but I'm concerned with how I'll manage to feed her raw when I start back to working in an office 8-6pm every day.  Currently she eats Wellness canned food and she eats multiple times throughout the day (since I've...

Hi everyone! I'm interested in preparing Dr. Pierson's recipe for my girl.  She's been on Wellness grain-free canned food for the past 13yrs but we recently had to switch to a prescription diet (bleegcchh!) due to a pancreatitis attack. Since 90% of pancreatitis attacks are ‘idiopathic’, we’re...

Hi everyone, I hope this thread is still active. Winchester: I wanted to ask if you had any luck with the laser therapy? My girl's almost 15 with arthritis in her back hips.  I'd like to do laser therapy but I'm nervous of taking her into the vet 2-3 times per week for a couple of weeks.  It's...

Thank you JDollPrincess for your feedback.  I completely agree it's a quality of life issue and I'm happy your vet is open to considering a long-term option.  I read on another site that someone had used Onsior 3x per week on her (now 15yr old) cat for the past 3 years with no problems.   ...

Hi, thank you for the info!  My vet isn't prescribing anything right now.  She gave me 3 doses of Onsior and that's it.  She never mentioned the Adequan and stated that Buprenex wasn't appropriate to treat arthritis pain (which makes sense since it doesn't really address the inflammation which...

Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.  My baby has had 7 pancreatitis attacks in the past 2 years, so I know how hard that is.  I'm sorry that he became so ill afterwards.  You gave him every chance possible, providing gold star treatment for your boy.  He was incredibly lucky to have someone so diligently...

Thank you CatPack for the very useful information! I can't believe my vet never mentioned Adequan as an option.  (It's scary that we have to learn more about treatment options from the internet than our own doctors.)  I'm sorry that you just lost your boy. <3  Was his passing related to the...

Thank you for replying! I'm hopeful others will post their experiences as well.  I'm glad to know your kitty wasn't suffering from arthritis. Unfortunately we've performed yearly x-rays on my baby since she was 12 and she definitely has progressive arthritis :(  She has no disc between 2 of her...