My 6 year old, 18-lbb cat has come off of his PZI insulin, and Strasti has been holding pretty steadily on his own with his BG. However, now I need to get his weight down. :-P He looked and behaved really beautifully when he was about 14 lbb. At 13 lbb, he looked horrific, but 14 was decent. I...

(crossposted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav, alt.support.diabetes, misc.health.diabetes. Follow-ups directed to rec.pets.cats.health+behav) My 12-year-old cat was just diagnosed as diabetic. He was admitted this morning for stabilization, and determining his dosage and whatnot. I've been reading...

I noticed my 2 year old cat was drinking what I thought was a lot of water (about 1 cup/day). She otherwise seemed fine. Eating OK, no excess urine, happy. I made an appt. with our vet and she did a serum (blood) glucose and urine test. She had a 243 on the serum glucose and glucose spill into...

I had blood tests run on my cat for his upcoming teeth cleaning. It came back with extremely high blood glucose (336, when the normal range is 70-150). During his cleaning the vet will be monitoring his blood glucose levels. She said the other option is that this could be due to stress. For those...

I'm hoping that someone can offer a diagnosis for my limping cat. She is a 13 year old, indoor cat who is limping on her left rear leg. She walks with the lower bone (the part just above her pad) almost parallel to the ground. It is if she cannot put weight on her pad or the joint above the pad....

Greetings, My cat has come down with a very unusual and apparently uncomfortable illness. Symptoms, symptoms, symptoms; Appears to be angry with tail (about hourly, for a few minutes) Bouts of aggression against self (tail chasing with growling, hissing, vocalizing and tail biting). This...

Our (approx.15-16) year old cat was diagnosed a couple of weeks ago with the above at the top of his right hind leg. (or around there) Vet said this is common in older cats. A vet partner more or less confirmed the diagnosis. 6 months ago it didn't appear OR the vet missed it. No biopsy was done...

My 10 year old cat has been having problems with vomiting up bile for a long time now. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to his vomiting but it seems like that's all he does. He doesn't have any loss of appetite and in fact, he's always hungry. The vet instructed me to give him 5 mg of Pepcid AC...

How do you diagnose cancer in animals before it's too late to treat? In people, there's all sorts of tests that can be done on a yearly basis such as breast and prostate exams, plus many others. But tests like those don't really exist for animals. When was the last time anyone heard about taking...

I had a thought last night, as I was paying the $200+ vet bill. I've a cat with known cystitis. This time it caused a UTI. Since this is diagnosed by looking at the urine for crystals, white blood cells and red blood cells, I was wondering if anyone's ever just done this themselves? Got a...

Even when the answers are bad, I like ANSWERS. Where my little Carey-kitty is involved, we never seem to have any. She's been "sick" for the last 3 years and we've never been able to figure out just what's going on with her. I'm trying to not add up the costs, as they just keep mounting. Carey...

I'm taking my cat to a new vet this afternoon (moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan) not for her annual check-up but something else, and I want to go into the new vet's office knowing a few of the possibilities causing this affliction. This has happened once before, about three months ago. Then,...

http://www.itchmo.com/read/breaking-news-diamond-and-chicken-soup-for-the-pe t-lovers-soul-recalled_20070426#more-519 (just go to www.itchmo.com) Diamond Pet Foods has announced it is withdrawing a limited number of canned products manufactured by American Nutrition. This action is limited to...

Dog and cat foods recalled, containing high levels of aflatoxin. -Rhonda http://www.diamondpetrecall.com/index.php

Does anyone in this group have any experience with Feline Diaphragmatic Hernia? If you have had the surgical repair done on your cat, could you share with me what was the experience like for the cat? How about the recovery? My Veterinarian made the diagnosis today using xrays. Then she referred...

I'm a first time cat owner owned by a wonderful male cat named Pete who is approx 2 years old. I've tried several brands of dry food but he's always had soft,runny stools for the last year or so.. so I'm somewhat concerned even though he seems perfectly healthy..can this hopefully be a *normal*...

What can I give my cat who has been on a month of antibiotics and has explosive runny diarrhea? Would yogurt or the acidophilus supplements help? If so, how much, and how to administer? Thanks.

Abit of background: My cats have been on Innova lite cat dry food for approx 1.5 years and they've had no problems with it at all. A few weeks ago, I started a new bag of Innova and they started having diarrhea and vomiting. I switched over to Science Diet ID to clear up the diarrhea. I...

Some of you may remember that my mom's 8 yo female longhair had a sore on her right hind leg. Several months ago, after changing a hard food formulation food too quickly she developed diarrhea which solved itself in about two weeks. Well, it's now about three months later and I'm not sure whether...

My cat is male and about 13 years old. About 2 weeks ago he started having diarrhea with really watery eyes (might not be related...about 4 times a year he'll get the runny eyes for about a week). He also licks himself "down there" so much that he's lost hair on his tail. Since then we've taken...