I usually post in rpca, and (sometimes) just lurk here (rarely post, I guess you'd see me as a wimp because I like playing nice). There's a poster in rpca, Holly, who is battling cancer (mastectomy, hysterectomy, and Monday brain surgery to remove a cancerous tumor). Holly has been very nice in...

wrote in message ... I'm confused, and this has gotten complicated. And I'm very worried about my cat. Ethel is no longer in heat, it lasted about a week. It sounds like the rescue is taking her to a spay clinic. All spay...

Well, after reading Phil P's last post...we took Jasper to the Emergency Vet. He is there resting comfortably right now, on an IV for fluid therapy and all that good stuff. Here is the lo-down. We had them do another round of blood tests and xrays. The blood tests confirm pancreatitis, with...

My younger kitty routinely paws her way under my sweaters and shirt I wear under the sweater and cuddles up for a sleep. She is a big time lap cat and loves to be fussed over but this hiding thing has me stumped. The odd time, she tries to burrow her way out a sleeve. Any ideas why she would do...

last summer we installed a staywell infra-red cat door as a local cat had been coming into our house at night, eating every scrap of our cats' food and spray marking in the house. the cat door worked well (except for all the batteries it uses up) until recently, and i am now finding that the cat is...

Our two cats have developed a problem with their stool. It has become quite soft, and one of them is frequently leaving a little pile outside of the litter box on the tile floor or in the bathtub. This has been going on for close to two weeks now. They are both neutered males residing entirely...

Hi. I'm in the early stages of trying to toilet-train my two small cats. They kicked some litter out of the box onto the floor, so they assumed that the litter on the floor was an extension of the litter box. The floor, unfortunately, seems to be semi-porous ceramic tile with lots of grout. The...

I'm poorly at the moment. Makes a change from it being my cat! It's nothing serious but in my moments of boredom and feeling awful, it occurred to me - what provision can I make for my cat in the event she were to outlive me? None of my family are 'cat' people' Nor my friends or neighbours. Most...

is it worth going to get this product if jasper seems to be continuing to vomit? poor guy. i just don't know what to do. at this point, we intend to bring him back to the vet tomorrow morning at 8:00 am when they open, but we are contemplating bringing him to the emergency clinic that is open...

Well...I called the Animal Medical Center here in New York City..They were recommended by my vet..Just wanted to ask a few questions, so of course it's $150 for the initial consultation, and they don't answer questions over the phone... Here is report from sonogram: Ultrasonographic Findings:...

I just got back from my vet & thankfully, my "real" vet was there but it's really bad news. He could feel tumors on his kidney and said by the bloodwork he appears to be in kidney failure. He kept him to put him on IV's and take xrays, etc. He's lost 1.3 lbs. in only 9 days. I can go visit...

I've been told that a young cat I've been interested in adopting had ringworm at one point but is now cured of it. The shelter, however, would want me to sign a waiver that if the ringworm got spread from the cat, they wouldn't be held libel. Is there any sure way to find out if the cat still...

Sorry to start a new thread, I couldn't post this to the original one. I kept getting an error that Line 3 in the headers was too long. "Meghan Noecker" wrote in message ... Assuming we are talking about pre-marriage, I don't...

Hi, My cat has a 1.5 cm lump in her liver, just brought her in for blood tests to see if her blood coagulates enough or a biopsy. My feeling is that it is cancerous...One question is, since it's in the liver it's inoperable..is radiation an option? Would this work? I guess it would be $$$$$ But...

Sorry to bring this up again, but.... Our cat (indoor) is always pestering for food lately, well the last few months anyway, since his operation to remove the almond. I feed Nutro in the pouch. The guide line on the package say 2 pouches for every 5 lbs. Since he is now at 20 lbs. and seems to...

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Had a little bit of a setback after the vet recommended taking Moses down from 1.2 cc to .8 cc of Prednisone a day for his IBD. (He takes the liquid version, BTW, since we're having to do this every day. I know the drill of how to properly do it and am able to give Moses pills when I have to,...

My cat was recently diagnosed with ringworm, and it's costing me a fortune! After an exam with a culture and topical medication that doesn't work (costing more than $100), I am now having to get oral medication for yet another $150. The affected cat will take it for four weeks, while the other...

Marco Feb 17, 8:15 am show options Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.misc, rec.pets.cats.health+behav From: "Marco" - Find messages by this author Date: 17 Feb 2005 08:15:30 -0800 Local: Thurs, Feb 17 2005 8:15 am Subject: Help with bonsai kittens Reply | Reply to Author |...

my cat seems to lately think that she can eat my food,and anyone else's food that happens to be in my house, and she hasnt done this before now, about 2 months ago, and ive owned her for two years, any advice?