It was as I feared. Her kidneys were too far gone. So I made the painful decision; Persia went to the bridge this afternoon. The vet gave me a little heart shaped stone "memory box" with some of her fur in it. She will be cremated and her ashes returned to me. Heartfelt thanks to all of you...

She vomited in the litter box on Sunday and hasn't eaten since then. I took her to the vet this morning after chasing her around the house for over half an hour. She got an antibiotic shot and 100cc of saline solution for dehydration. I took her home with a bottle of medicine to give her twice...

My brain is so tired it's hard to think, but i think i'll let it operate a little more so I can vent. First of...

Boy, has this been a week! I found out that someone else got the computer tech job that I had been REALLY looking forward to. Nancy called HR at her employer's home newspaper about a job she'd like to move to, and has still not gotten a call back (but she's still applying). I've been pulling...

Frank has been fighting, has gotten an abscess on his side/shoulder. I took him to T.E.D. this afternoon, just expecting him to clean it, give us antiobiotic and send us on our way. Instead, he wanted to sedate him to debride it more thoroughly and probably put a drain in it. So he stayed. I wish...

Anyone wake up in the morning or come home to bird feathers in the shower, or worse yet bird beaks, legs, feathers and guts on the carpet? Our cats are the best fed cats in Oklahoma, but they still love to have a good ole' bird murder weekly. We sometimes catch them and pry the bird out of...

Comforting thoughts requested for our friend Susie who lost her beloved stallion http://www.abacusfarms.com/Ulrik.html Click the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page if you would like to send Susie a condolence message. Thanks, Pat

I love how cats imitate the positions of those (other felines, humans, dogs, whomever) around them: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2009/01/cat-and-baby.html -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

I have discovered that putting someone in KF does no good, they just keep showing on other posts of people I read. I just wish we could drop some of the stuff and move on back to our "family" type caring. Yeah, I know old lady wants harmony and life isn't like that.

For several weeks she's been coming in, eating, sleeping, playing. My cats have accepted her into the pack. Her owner put a collar on her so I know she's not a stray. She's a nice cat, about the same age as Hondo. She's getting about the age to go into heat. I've started locking her out of the...

Siamese cats are not by nature a needy animal. They are aloof. Masters of all they survey. They may permit scritches if it makes us happy and they may even share the occasional purr. Physical closeness is also permitted and everyone knows shared body heat is a good thing. And of course an...

I have read posts about cats on the group that are often 14 lbs up to in the 20's, particularly USA cats. Compared with this, mine are miniscule. Boyfriend is around 7-8 pounds and KFC is 4ish. They both have access to all the gooshy and dry food that they might want and catch and eat der birdies...

Can I please have some purrs for Mosey? We're taking him to TED in about an hour. Poor baby just isn't feeling good and we have alot of stress going on here, and I pray he's okay. His teeth seem to be doing okay, but he's just not feeling good. I'm worried about my cute little guy and we...

The other two, with minimum complaint, accept flea collars. Ding shook his off within minutes last season. Tonight, all I did was unroll the thing, as he was enjoying the lap scratching (and I was not enjoying grooming out the fleabits)...BOOM....struggle. He just wanted to get away, and clearly...

Was how I saw this described on another talkboard: http://www.livejournal.com/users/meowmeowbutt/120514.html -- Cathi

I was running errands and decided to stop at the humane society and formalize our adoption of the boys. They were checking in a momma cat with 3 (or 4?) kittens, about 3 weeks old. Somebody dumped them at the pound, where they would've been euthanized, but the folks at the SPCA go there twice a...

She started sneezing a few days ago, I didn't think anything of it at first but now there is green gunk coming down one nostril. She hasn't eaten this evening and is hugging the fire. I guess she can't smell her food and feels poorly. She has CRF and cannot afford to not eat. She has never...

Kerry, my newish cat, seems to be lacking fur on part of her belly near the back legs. I only just noticed - she loves being petted, but like many cats, she takes exception to belly-rubs so I hadn't looked at her belly in quite a while. I have an appointment with the vet for her tomorrow - I...

Well, yes of course I am. But some days there is just so much provocation. Junk email is bad enough. I figure TV advertising is the price I pay for the programming on TV, and at least junk mail costs the sender something and helps to support the post office. But junk email is just too...

Orion had to be PTS. About a year and a half ago he was diagnosed with vaccination-associated sarcoma cancer. He received chemo, which slowed down the progression but unfortunately it continued to spread. The last year he seemed largely unaffected (except for the appearance of a large lump on his...