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The doctor said he ruled out ear infection, said his ears looked very clean. It isn't about the cost, I'd give anything for my cats, but that look, after surgery when they're in pain and don't know why, but they love and trust you implicitly. I don't know how to justify his suffering for me...

I called the vet today and am waiting for a call back on next steps. One of the signs of an issue is that I've read about is rapid eye movement, especially when their head is upside down. My sweet boy loves to have his belly rubbed and goes fully on his back, head upside down to achieve this...

Below is a small novel about the sweet 11 year old ragdoll in my profile pic. I'm looking for comments / experience with cats that had idiopathic vestibular disease (IVD) or a brain tumor. The things I find online about IVD seem to say that most everything is good in 3 days and in a week to 2...

Is the drooling new? Have you talked to your vet about the drooling? I was giving Prozac and he also started drooling having never drooled before. Eventually he stopped eating and basically just standing still and shaking. He was moved to Zoloft, stopped drooling, stopped shaking and ate...

I've got a cat (Mr High Maintenance in my picture) who among other things has recurring herpes infections. No amount of lysine or whatever else seems to stop it from coming back. What I've read so far says that while the FIV kitten would have to really attack one of the other cats to transfer...

I thought I'd give one last update but it isn't what I expected it to be. The kittens are doing quite well, running, playing and such. They were being overfed by my well meaning mom but that has been resolved. One of the kittens refuses crunchy and still has softer poo. Overall they're...

I like those, but I'm thinking Francis at the moment. I typically name after historic French royalty, so their entitled attitudes match their names. The little prince in my profile is Charles, I also have an Eleanor and Edouard, all spoiled rotten.

Minor update. Kittens went to the vet, vet is fairly certain they are all from the same litter. Generally speaking they are all doing very well, although the one they had all weekend is the most outgoing right now. New ones have "flea dirt" so they're getting a bath today. Waiting on the...

Here is their 6 month old kitten, being informed there are more baby kittens. She's got a lot of work ahead of her.

My parents did work with someone to TNR the mom of their spring kitten - that kitten was older when they found her though. Mom kept coming for food for a while and eventually got lured into the trap. Mom had zero interest in humans, so being returned out was the best thing for her. I'm sure...

Mom must be somewhere nearby. My parents leave out food for the neighborhood feral cats, so I guess it would make sense that she would keep her kittens sort of nearby the easy food. Usually there is a video camera on the feeding station, but the food was moved for the storm. My dad was...

Another two were just found, has to be the same litter, but they were not there yesterday when my dad looked. One is 12 oz like the surviving kitten and the other is 10 oz. My parents will foster the 2 and keep the original The existing kitten is unimpressed on her throne.

Sad news today. The sickly kitten slowed down considerably last night. One emergency vet was open today, we went down. While we were waiting, my dad and the kitten had a good snuggle, but he was clearly fading. The vet said his heart and his lungs sounded rough - it could be an infection or...

Morning update - healthy kitten continues to thrive. The resident kitten - ~6 months old now - interacted with her just a bit. Really impressed that the resident was patient and let the kitten check her undercarriage for milk (sadly for little one, big kitten is fixed). Little one is...

Here are pictures of the bigger one, she's up to almost 12 ounces already and has quite the attitude.

Here are pictures of the sickly one. As you can tell from the action shots he's not nearly as limp as he was before - so much wiggle. Today he actually vocalized, meowing and then hissing when he was just over everything. He took a few wobbly steps on the counter. The pictures below, in...

I've made my way out to my parent's house, so now I've seen the little ones in person. They are SOOOOO tiny and sweet. I think the healthy one is a female and the sickly one is male. The female may end up being named Florence. Healthy baby is eating KMR mixed with canned kitten food...

OK morning update. Yesterday I kept reading threads about kittens in similar situations and they recommended pedialyte. So my mom whipped up a batch of the homemade stuff and my dad administered a little by eye dropper. Almost immediately he peed and then started opening his eyes and looking...

Teeth are present, Kitten 1 (aka Big Boy) is eating KMR and kitten canned food like a maniac, but only off of my mom's finger. Would like to run around but that isn't really in the cards right now. He's going to be a boss. Kitten 2 (aka Little Man) ate a little, and is just chilling on my...

Thank you for all of your help! Found one little pet store that was open and got their last can of premade KMR and a can of off brand kitten powder food. They weighed them on an antique food scale and came out to 10 oz for kitten 1 and 7 oz for kitten 2. Kitten 1 is full of all sorts of...