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Neutered Cats Get Fatter?

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My cats soon reject or loose enthusiasm for regular hormone-filled beef, chicken or turkey but never tire of the ‘natural’ food, eg. ocean fish or "organic" beef, chicken or turkey. The food is as fresh as I can find and they will reject it if it is in any way spoiled. Bear [...]

Maine Coon needs home

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> >Brown mackeral tabby female spayed 4 paw declawed(with LASER) needs a home > My God, what sick fuck 4 paw declawed this poor animal and is now dumping > him!!! > I guess another digit amputated cat loses his home.  What is that they say? > "oh, but declawing [...]

spaying…

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >Well, assuming you are a cat and not a human, you probably didn’t come >into heat because the breeding season is pretty much over — and you were >lucky, as well.  Our Tipsy came into heat promptly at 6 months in January >(and [...]

Over the counter UPJOHN de-wormer OK ??

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> From this group, it could be surmised that all kittens get worms and > should be dewormed.
No, not all kittens get worms.

Response:
> Actually, as a parallegal I fix papers that they (attys) F* up.
You can’t even spell paralegal and we’re supposed to believe you are smart [...]

Decrease in Appetite

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Thanks Phil (and others) She is a year and half.  The weather here (UK) is humid and constantly changing from hot to cold at the moment.  She drank a lot on Sunday but seems to have stopped drinking so much now.  She is eating about 100g throughout the day (she is [...]

Lesions/Old cat/what??? (long)

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Okay this may seem WAY too simple… but has he been treated for fleas?  Has allergy testing been done??
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi. > My cat Valis, about 13 years old, has periodically gotten these fur-free areas > on his belly that become raw-looking [...]

Creatine levels and minor surgery to remove lipoma

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(thanks for the info) I understand that they gave the cat a seditive in order to take the blood for the test.  When we brought him home (after he had been at the vet’s for most of the day) he was really spaced-out, and his eyes were wide open (dilated).  He [...]

PETROMALT Question ….

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Any kind of oil can dissolve the oil soluble vitamins and carry them out. Same thing they tell people who get ‘hooked’ on mineral oil to cure their constipation. However, that’s why the hairball remedies always, as far as i know, have yeast extract or malt extract or something mixed in [...]

FUTD/FUS

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My Henry had recurrent cystitis, and firstly the vet treated it with antibiotics, after testing the pH and checking for crystals. The antibiotics worked OK the first 2 times, but after that they didn’t and as my vet was reluctant to keep pumping him full of drugs. So he put him on [...]

FUS, CYSTITIS

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<<My oldest cat is almost 18 years old and has cystitis and occasional FUS.  He is presently on Feline C/D and he is also offered Purina CNM UR-Formula but because of his age, his interest in the C/D and the CNM is, at times, limited. Because of this he is loosing weight. [...]