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Cat Health Problems
off the canned cat food
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When I got a new kitten last September, I wanted to start him on dry food (Iams). My five year old had been getting canned food plus dry food all her life. I couldn’t continue the canned food for her because the kitten would scarf it all right away. The problem was, [...]
Feline Diabetes Help
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I second the last post Do change vets, I lost my cat because I trusted the vet, who let him die. Margot.
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> To get urine samples, put a few grains of non-clumping litter in a > pan or litterbox. He’ll still urinate. There should be enough free urine for > [...]
Pulling My Hair Out YYEEOOWWWWW
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> Our vets use albon or trimethoprim-sulfa (30-60 mg/kg/day for 6 days that > seems to work.
Hi Phil, Thanks for the response! What would you think if, like Beans, a cat was still testing positive for coccidia after two trials of Albon? Is there anything else I should [...]
update sick geriatric cat the rainbow bridge beckons
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I am so sorry. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >Took Morganii to the vet today, just like I said I would >She is not doing well >Vet suspects that there won’t be much he can do. >Her cardiac myopathy is much worse and this is causing kidney [...]
Health insurance, yes or no?
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hi I had pet insurance for my cat who was indoors. I thought well if he does’t need it, thank god, and if he does— 2 years ago my cat Anton was diagosed with feline lymphosarcoma and I really needed it.
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If you can afford it, get it. I wish I could have. [...]
Ovaban and cancer in cats
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Thank you Tally for your encouraging post. It’s good to know Tardy lived several years after the tumor was removed. My vet said he hoped Bodhi would have at least two years cancer-free, and he did say the margins looked good and that we caught the tumor early while it [...]
I helped my friends get a cat!
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One more thing to remember…never give a cat or kitten string,rubber bands,or anything of that nature to play with.If these were to be swallowed they can cause death.Paper balls are always a great option! Zuzu22
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New kitty cat’s name????? Bugsbunny
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Go to this page-Behavior tips for new kitten owners: http://www2.southwind.net/~ihac/int16.html [...]
cats health teeth
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I have heard of it. Three months ago we started our yearly round of vaccinations on our cats. I generally take the cats in two at a time. Two weeks after the youngest was vaccinated, I noticed a large bump on his back near the vaccination site. After having [...]
Epilepsy?
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>–WebTV-Mail-1637158207-2735 >Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit >does anyone know of a good web site I can go to that can give me some >information on how to care for a cat with epilepsy? My cat LC has had a >clutzy problem for more than a year, and, over the [...]
Please ignore my previous post
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<SNIP> – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Many times new users think that newsgroups are groups of people. They are >not groups of people, but groups of topics. Everyone writing about their >feline is a member of the whole hierarchy rec.pets.cats.*, not just a >single group. Many members [...]