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My baby Harrison ❤️

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2024/03/28
19:33 UTC

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The spider man i have at home. Ft. Elmo xD

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2024/03/28
19:32 UTC

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Aural hematoma drain/lancing cost?

We're already treating my cat for an ear infection, but he still has a huge aural hematoma on his ear. I think we need to get it drained, but don't know what kind of cost I should be expecting.

I know it'll be different in different places, but money is really tight right now and any ballpark would be helpful. Thanks!

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2024/03/28
19:31 UTC

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Happy 3rd birthday to Wattson!

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2024/03/28
19:27 UTC

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Question.

I’m a bit of a germaphobe, and i like to give my cats little spoonfuls of my food, is it safe to put that spoon back into my mouth?

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2024/03/28
19:25 UTC

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When are we leaving?

Who else's cat thinks they are invited the second you bring out the luggage?

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2024/03/28
19:22 UTC

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my little girl got diagnosed with epilepsy today

she spent two days at the vet after two very scary seizures earlier this week. now shes finally back home and took her first medications like a little champ. ❤️

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2024/03/28
19:18 UTC

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Constipation?

Hi there! We recently moved my cats to a new house with us and are coming across new behavior that I haven’t noticed in my oldest cat ever.

Info: male cat, about 5 yo, tuxedo shorthair cat, has all shots/neutered. Lives with us and his little brother who is 1.

The only other time he has been constipated was when I moved to a new place and he got contstipated, then he got some iv fluids at the vet and was sent home. The next day he had explosive diarrhea everywhere. Poor guy.

So I was thinking since he just moved to a new home again, maybe it’s stress again? This time though he is pooping normally, but is leaving small little pieces of poo around the floor of the house. He had some runny poo the first week he was here for a day, but it’s been 3 weeks and the pieces of poo are still happening. This hasn’t been an issue with him before. I guess, as far as I know. He drinks water, he’s not lethargic, he eats normally. He could eat more if we let him but we don’t. The pieces we find around the house are solid but mushy. Dark brown.

I’ve read I can give him pumpkin puree but he gets terribly ill and throws up when eating human food.

Ofcourse we will be taking him to the vet, but we’re at a stand still untill they process their records from the previous vet where they used to live.

Anyone have a similar experience? This is causing a lot of stress and I guess I just want to hope this isn’t how he will be forever. I don’t want him suffering if he is, and I don’t want to keep cleaning up bits of poo on the floor forever.

I was thinking since he’s acting normal, maybe he’s digging in the litter box and it’s getting stuck on his paws? And tracking it elsewhere. Or maybe it’s stuck on his butt but we never see any stuck on his butt. I really don’t know and I guess I was looking for some words of encouragement.

Thank you!

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2024/03/28
19:12 UTC

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Me whenever I get a good night sleep

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2024/03/28
19:07 UTC

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What is my cat doing?

Recently my cat has started kneeding with all 4 paws and kinda squatting, and when you try to touch him he gets defensive and cries almost. He does it on people and especially on the blanket when you're lying in bed.

Is this humping/spraying behaviour? As far as I can tell he doesn't actually "hump"...he just squats and knees with all 4 paws.

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2024/03/28
19:07 UTC

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lost him on dec 5th 2023, he had leukemia (prob from his mom) his human owners moved to new apartment and couldnt take him so we took him in for 6 weeks when on the 6th week he laid on the floor in pain and vet said it was leukemia and made decision to put him to sleep at only 2 years old

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2024/03/28
19:03 UTC

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Juju Bean

Trying to work on a craft project and this jerk just wants me to paint her like one of my French girls.

2 Comments
2024/03/28
18:58 UTC

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Advice to Cat-Proof Patio on a Budget (Renter-friendly)

Both of my cats love looking out our windows and I've taken them on our raised patio/balcony on harnesses before but it's usually not for very long and I think they would rly enjoy a catio.

I'm not looking to spend a lot or do anything that would require permanent/extensive work since I'm renting

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2024/03/28
18:57 UTC

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I have a little visitor at work😊

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2024/03/28
18:57 UTC

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If I'm drinking ANYTHING, she wants it...

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2024/03/28
18:56 UTC

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Help! 2 of 3 cats are extremely unwell, they don't want to walk,limping, are in pain. These two cats had their vaccinations at a different vet. I have a vet appointment scheduled today but they dismissed anything I said on the phone. Any guesses on what's going on? Pet hospital closed right now.

I'm going to try to keep this as short as simple but with as much information as possible. This is very long and a specific situation. But I felt like I need to give a lot of information. Yes there is a vet appointment scheduled. I am using voice to text to type this so sorry if there are typos.

We took in a stray cat to foster a couple weeks back. We had found out she was originally an inside cat but the family didn't want anymore and tossed her outside. Our plan was to vaccinate her get her spayed and find her a home.

We decided to go with a different vet clinic then we have for the past few years due to some issues with the clinic we have had. Originally we were going to just going to go to that clinic but for the stray to get vaccinated and spayed it was many many weeks out. We didn't want to stray in the house around our animals if they were not vaccinated. We wanted to make sure that this cat was not sick or had anything before we brought her inside.

The other clinic we had been thinking about going to had an opening that day due to a cancellation so I took the cat in and she got ALL her vaccinations that day and she got everything. Her feline aids test was negative so she got all her vaccines. Two days later we got her spayed at the same clinic. We had scheduled are older cat to get his rabies booster at the same clinic we took the stray to because again he was weeks out at the other clinic. We had missed his rabies booster and had to start over with the one year. Oops.The clinic was not able to obtain our records for our cat because they didn't send them over in time so we got our cat his rabies vaccine and distemper just in case.

The common denominator for these two cats is they both went to the same clinic and got vaccinated two days apart. The stray cat that we were fostering was in a very large dog crate with a litter box and food and water they could not get to each other at all unless they wanted to visit through the bars of the cage up until about 3 days ago. So for a few weeks now they were pretty much separated. She was also spayed and we didn't want a fight to break out or anything we didn't want something to happen to her incision so yes she was in a dog crate for most of her time. I would like to mention this dog crate is made for a Dane okay it's very large.

So they both got their vaccinations a little over 2 weeks ago. A little over a week ago are older cat wasn't himself and he seemed to get depressed and stressed out and we assumed because he's older that he's just very much not okay with a stray cat in the house which makes sense. We double checked with the vet they said it's normal. So he just did his own thing his own space he either stayed in the bathroom or stayed on the other side of the house. He didn't really want to eat anything but he would eat cat treats so we assumed he was just being picky because why are you eating cat treats but you won't eat your cat food? All three cats are on the same food by the way. We did give him new litter boxes close to him so he didn't have to leave the rooms if he didn't want.

A few days ago was when we started letting out the stray cat and she loves our dog and sleeps with our dog all the time she doesn't really like the other cats if they get near her she does a kind of a strike out with her paw and hisses but she doesn't like go after them or anything. She just wants to be left alone to sleep the cats can walk right next to her and walk on by and everything be fine. She just doesn't like it if a cat's in her face.

We did have an incident where she did smack or third cat because our third cat wanted to play and this one did not!

A couple days ago we noticed that the stray was limping a little bit and we are not sure if she was in a car accident or had broken bones that didn't heal right so I called the vet and moved up an appointment we had two weeks from now to today because I was a little concerned about the limp. I was told that maybe her leg had fallen asleep and you know it's probably something simple like a pinched nerve or something but that we would do x-rays to see if there was a broken bone that didn't heal right with the stray.

The next day she was limping on a different foot and then she really wasn't putting any weight at all on one of her feet and then today she doesn't want to walk. She's in pain. She doesn't want to put weight at all on two of her legs.

I went and grabbed our older cat and took him over to his food bowl today. I would like to mention the last week he didn't want to go to the litter box unless we put him in it and then he would go right away he didn't want to use the new litter box that we put in the same room as him. It probably didn't smell as familiar so that's kind of what we chalked it up to and again the vet said he's probably just stressed out because of the new cat.

Anyway I picked him up today and he meowed like he was in a little bit of pain I thought that was strange and I put them by his food bowl to see if he would eat out of his food bowl instead of just wanting treats and he was limping extremely bad. He was not limping like this yesterday. But now they are limping virtually the same and my older cat is clearly in pain and does not want to put weight on any of his legs. He's hissing and growling and just not okay.

There is absolutely zero chance our dog was near him they get along anyway but he doesn't sleep with our dog. He's been sleeping by himself on a chair and a different room or in a different cat bed. He is in pain he will not walk his eyes are pretty droopy. Our dog did not step on him. We did not step on him. He has no reason at all to be limping. But he is exhibiting similar sayings as the stray cat is. They did not come in contact with each other.

I immediately freaked out and called the vet like what the hell is going on this is the situation I took two cats to your vet's office and the two cats that I took there to get vaccinated are now seriously ill with I don't know what is going on. Now if the stray was limping earlier than what we noticed we wouldn't have seen as much when she was in the crate and she just pretty much got up to eat and then went back to sleep. But when we did have her out a couple days ago she was not limping this is all developed quickly. A day ago our cat wasn't limping so now they're both limping. They were vaccinated at the same clinic two days apart from each other.!!!!!

To my knowledge there is nothing these two cats would have gotten into. Our other cat is a year old she's super curious she will get into anything and everything if we leave it out so if they all got into something she also would have gotten into it because she is the most curious cat in the world and literally will do anything to get a hold of anything. This cat is completely fine. She is very playful she's herself she's a little crazy and is not exhibiting any signs of limping.

So I called the vet explain the situation and I'm like hey I took two cats to you they're both exhibiting the exact same thing they're not okay could you have vaccinated them with a vaccine that was contaminated or something?? Could you have had a contaminated needle??What could have happened for two of my cats to have whatever is going on with them when they were both at your clinic in both got vaccinated.

The stray cat got a full panel of blood work two weeks ago and she was fine. The two connections here are they both got vaccinated with the same vaccines at the same clinic two days apart.

They have an appointment with that clinic soon for more blood work. I can't take them to an emergency clinic because none of them open until like midnight. My other clinic the one we had originally been trying to get away from is booked out many many weeks still. I did call them and explain the situation cuz they knew that I was getting them vaccinated and everything at this clinic and because they couldn't get us in in time and we were trying to get this stray spayed and vaccinated and try to find her a new home especially because she wasn't indoor cat most of her life she was just tossed out by people that didn't want her anymore.

The vet we have been going to said it isn't typical that they could have an issue with a vaccine but it isn't impossible. The vet that I took them to where they have an appointment today have dismissed every single thing I said. They said that a vaccine can never cause anything at all. They said that nothing could have contaminated the needles. Nothing is going on with their clinic. They have dismissed everything I said over the phone and immediately tried to say it was my fault and our cats got into something. It might have been possible I guess that the stray could have gotten into something. I don't know how she could have or what it could have been. But the other cat would not have gotten into anything based on where he has been the last week. Again up until a few days ago the cat was still quarantined in a giant crate she was not up walking around.

The only thing I saw was a possibility was FCV feline Calicvirus but I don't know much about it and I didn't see a lot of stuff online. The big thing here is they don't seem to be doing very well and they don't want to walk and they're limping.

The plan is to take them here to this vet and then if need be depending on what is found out take them to the emergency pet hospital when they open up.

They have an appointment for blood work and exam at the vet office where they got their vaccinations at today and we'll get blood work done. However they have already dismissed anything I've said. They are very clear that nothing could have been introduced to them at their vet clinic. Getting anything from a vaccine is an impossibility. Contamination is an impossibility. So this vet is immediately dismissive versus the other one is like it's probably unlikely but it's a possibility.

Again I can't take him to an emergency hospital until late tonight as they don't open up until late at night.

Is there anything you guys can think of that would be causing this. The third cat is fine and that cat will get into anything if we leave it out she is only a year old is very much a kitten and is very very curious.

My main vet clinic said just go here and get work done and if need be go to the pet hospital as well. But I just don't feel very good taking them back to this clinic. But at the same time I'm not too happy that every time I call them this week they said oh this and that is normal when it came to behavior but now we have a serious situation and they're immediately dismissing any even tiny possibility that something happened out their clinic.

This clinic is very highly rated you know but not typical and unlikely and rare is not impossible. And it really really pisses me off when somebody says oh it doesn't usually happen so therefore it is dismissed immediately as an impossibility. Rare doesn't mean impossible.

Is there anything you guys can think of that I can bring up that might be a possibility. All three cats are on the same food. All the cats are on the same water.

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2024/03/28
18:55 UTC

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Should I ask the vet for a discount?

So my almost 16yr old cat will be going under to get all of his teeth removed in a couple of weeks. Today they’re doing his bloodwork to make sure it’s safe to put him under.

This will be the third time pulling teeth within a year or so. The second time was just 5 months ago. He was having difficulty eating, pawing at his mouth, and drooling. The first time they took two teeth, the second time they took three teeth, and now this last time they’ve decided he has genetic dental disease and needs all of them out. The first time when we started this process it was $400 for two(1-5 teeth price), $400 or $500 for the second time(1-5 teeth price) and now it’s $1,200(10+ teeth). The cost just five months ago for this package (10+ teeth) was $600 5 months ago. So it has went up 100%. I just feel like they should have caught this at least the second time , and so I’m feeling slightly frustrated that on top of the $800 I’m now paying $1,200.

They said because their supplies have gone up and they held off as long as possible when they warned of their price increase, but 100%? And had I known that it would be a 100% increase on all their packages, I would have probably pressed a little harder on what they thought or wish they’d called me and said it was worse than they thought and wanted to take all of his teeth. I would have said yes. Plus this is difficult on my cat and painful, and I hate he’s got to do this a third time.

My friends and family feel like I should ask them if they’d be willing to do the price of when I started all of this or at least ask for a discount, because I feel like it should have been caught earlier.

Should I ask them to work with me and consider the discount?

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2024/03/28
18:50 UTC

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Unknown reason for skin lesions.

Hi,
My girlfriend and I have a Sphynx cat. She is almost 9 months old. She's been spayed like 3 months ago.
The only problem we're facing now with her is the fact that she's developing some skin lesions focused mostly on her belly, her back legs and a few on her head near her eyes.
I was wondering if any of you happened to stumble upon the same looking lesions like our cat has.

Yes, we've been to multiple vets and we've received multiple options for treatment.
What we've done so far:

  • Changed all her food (quality one) to Virbac HPM Veterninary Hypoallergy for food intolerances, removed all treats and manged to not give her any human food ( She did not even got the chance to steal the slightiest bite of bread or anything human ).
  • Bathed her with a shampoo that the vet recomended ( chlorhexidine shampoo - VetExpert )
  • Applied allerderm virbac spot-on little bottles on her lesions.
  • Used a Magnesium and Zinc solution for calming and soothing the skin ( Vetnova CUTANIA Zn-Gel )
  • Administrated 1/4 once 12 hours of Histamin Controll pill ( Quercitin 125 mg, Bromelain 50 mg, MSM 150 mg, Grape seed extract 75 mg, Dimethylglycine 50 mg, Ascorbic acid 125 mg, Zinc lactate 50 mg, Magnesium citrate 50 mg. ) An anthistamine drug made from plants that is not toxic for her liver.
  • The vets we've been to also took skin samples from her lesions and did all the bacterial and all sorts of tests and the tests came all back negative. - So they have said it's a food problem.

She's eating from a ceramic bowl that is daily washed. She has fresh bottled water daily. She's being cleaned with pet wipes designed for cats with sensible skin (and normal ones too) once a week or more frequently if needed. She has her ears cleaned and eyes by us with gentle care. (physiological serum used for eyes so we're not irritating them). She has her sebum cleaned from her claws and from in between her fingers with a cloth and warm water by us weekly.

We're cleaning the bathtub / sink with water after we're taking showers / after we wash our hands so no residue is left anywhere.
The bed sheets are washed with a laundry detergent meant to be for babies (sensitive skin).
She has no access to cleaning products. And our house is cleaned weekly thoroughly and we wipe off dust and clean the mess we leave behind daily.

We do not have other pets, she has not been exposed to other pets.
We wash our hands when we come home before touching her/petting.

It's our first cat together, and individually too, so we're trying to take all the measurements to make her life purrfect, but her genetics are giving us hard days.
We're scheduled for Monday to a Vet that has undergone special training in Dermatology field so we're hoping for the best. Until then, I took the time to make this post hoping for some replies that could help us figure out if we're doing somehting wrong!

Thing is, the lessions come and go. We had a vet appointment on 1st march cause she started having this skin issue again. After we have underwent the above mentioned procedures the skin started to look good again for maybe 1 week. Thought the new food was actually the miracle that could save us. (Indeed on the bag and following the vet instructions, we are meant to give her the food for 8 weeks). But.. lesions started blooming again.

Thank you for the patience.

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2024/03/28
18:48 UTC

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Missing cat - what to do now?

Tldr: cat is missing. Looking for any advice you can give.

What we know: no body found in neighbourhood or disposed by city so presumed alive; friendly cat used to his neighbourhood and to human proximity (but not enough to be indoors yet); neutered but female in heat around and lots of big bad bully cats attracted to the area; city area with some parks

What we did: posters in grocery and pet stores; talked to neighbours and the mailman; social media campaign; walking around during day and night calling for him.

Hi all,

To preface, this cat is an outdoor cat. I am aware of the dangers associated with cats being outdoors, but this cat is a former feral, we are progressively getting him used to going inside a house and we plan to adopt him as soon as we move (current house would not work as it is a rental and we reached the pet quota already with our two indoors).

So, Nandor is a former feral who has adopted us as much as we adopted him. He spends a very good portion of his day on our porch, and whenever we are outside he comes by. He is the sweetest. On Monday evening, he came by and slept on our porch. Tuesday morning, no Nandor (which I thought was weird, he always comes by when my partner leaves for work). During the day, I spent a good bit of time outside gardening and spending time with Nandor's sisters (same situation - they will be indoors soon as well). Still no trace of him. I started to worry but waited a bit - I figured he might come by later. He didn't.

Yesterday morning, when he didn't come as my partner left (and after an hour spent outside), I started the 'find Nandor' emergency plan. I went to see all the neighbours who feed him (many of them, he is not starving lol), and none had seen him since Monday. They started spreading the word to other neighbours in the street. I walked around the neighbourhood with a bag of treats I was shaking, and looking in gardens from the street. No trace of him. I sent messages on all the local Facebook and social media groups, including our local shelters and various cats charities. They got shared multiple times. I called the local vet, who put in a notification in their franchise's system (they own the main emergency vet services). I printed posters and put one in front of my house and one at the local grocery store. I went with my partner in the night to walk around with flashlights calling him and looking in gardens, went even further than I did the first time, no sign of him. Today I reposted on social media, had a chat with some of the neighbours again, gave a poster to the postman, checked again our garden, shed etc (just in case) and went on a long walk in areas I thought he might have wandered in and gotten lost based on his personality, the usual presence of dogs, and environmental features, without success. I showed his photo around to people but nobody had seen a cat like him around (he has distinctive features). Then I called the city services that dispose of animals who passed, in case they were called for him, and they would have called me if that was the case. So far no call (thank God) and no rumour of cat accident in the neighbourhood (and it is a small gossipy neighbourhood so I would have heard of it), so I am assuming he is alive.

The plan now is to talk to some more neighbours, and go again at night but in another area, keep on posting on social media and pray I don't receive the dreaded phone call from city services and that instead I do receive a call from anyone who might have seen him. But honestly, I am at a loss as to what to do. We've put posters wherever we could (not allowed in the streets here and only in selected shops) and done a full blown social media campaign, so I keep feeling like we should have had news in some way. He can't have disappeared like that leaving no trace?!

We think there is a female in heat around, and although he is neutered, it has been attracting a lot of big tomcats who are bullying him. Plus his sister is a bit of a bully. So yeah, we are not sure if he left voluntarily or might have been pushed away outside his territory by a bullying cat and then gotten lost? Or went to explore/look for the female in heat and got lost? Would that even change anything?

We live in an urban area, with a few parks around (I checked in the parks that were open and no sign of him), but there are lots of dogs in these parks and few places to hide. Also he is a very friendly cat so I feel he would have looked for human proximity, would that make sense? Any specific strategy I should take on this?

Sorry for the long rambling, I don't want to be too specific so I don't dox myself, but I am happy to share more details in private if anyone wants to help!

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2024/03/28
18:48 UTC

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Old cat not playing and gaining weight

Hey so I have an older cat, he's 16 and he's pretty much stopped playing much since he was 14. He's gained a bit of weight since he was 15. Iv beenbto the vets had blood work and trays done and he seems fine medically. He was cleared on diabetes. Is it just him being older that's doing it? Iv tried many different toys he's got a wall run set up in the house. But he's just not interested in anything other than sitting and being pet.

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2024/03/28
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