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- Sat Dec 30, 2017 8:35 pm
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: Best food for Cat with cancer
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5893
Re: Best food for Cat with cancer
I buy the Durham Animal Feed complete minced meat, which is a balanced combination of 80% muscle meat, 10% offal and 10% bone. They deliver widely, or you may find a local stockist. If you cook it (best simmered in water because of the bone) you can add a pinch of taurine to compensate for that lost...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 2:52 pm
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: Bella wont eat wet food.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3836
Re: Bella wont eat wet food.
I cook for mine - I buy the Durham Animal Feed complete minces, and feed them raw or gently simmered to make gravy and jelly, with a pinch of extra taurine to be safe when it is cooked. I cook vegetables for the dogs, and give the cats some of the broth from that, too. Mixing and rotating meats (chi...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 2:18 pm
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: feeding cats without dogs stealing it!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1319
Re: feeding cats without dogs stealing it!
Now that is a clever idea - thank you! I am experimenting with alternative positions for his food bowl, but will definitely bear this in mind if the cheapo option doesn't work out. Something similar may work for keeping the dogs out of litter trays when those eventually become necessary - ah, the wo...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:52 am
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: feeding cats without dogs stealing it!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1319
Re: feeding cats without dogs stealing it!
Yes, they are chipped - and I did think about installing a microchip operated cat flap in the cloakroom/utility room door, but it would not be easy to keep the door shut shut. It is one of those spaces that is in constant use, with very little floor space.
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:32 am
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: feeding cats without dogs stealing it!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1319
feeding cats without dogs stealing it!
I need ideas! I have two cats (Pippin and Tilly) and two dogs (Sophy, a papillon, and Poppy, a toy poodle). The dogs gobble any food they can reach and look round for more, so the cats are fed on a work surface in the utility room where the dogs can't get at their bowls - the cats like to eat a bit ...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:19 am
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: Tails of the radioactive cat (or Mouse.) Radio-iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
- Replies: 208
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Re: Tails of the radioactive cat (or Mouse.) Radio-iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
Thanks Antonio - Pippin is happy to curl up in a warm bed almost anywhere, so I think a cosy spot in my study and occasional cuddles will keep him reasonably happy. I have two huge garages (full of assorted workbenches, projects and stuff!) so do have somewhere to store litter etc, although I think ...
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 7:42 am
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: Tails of the radioactive cat (or Mouse.) Radio-iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
- Replies: 208
- Views: 47444
Re: Tails of the radioactive cat (or Mouse.) Radio-iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
Thanks Kay. I live in a converted Victorian building, with several acres of shared grounds that the cats consider their territory. There are children, young women and dogs using the grounds, so I will have to be scrupulous about keeping him in and managing waste - a secure private garden would certa...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 10:44 pm
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: Tails of the radioactive cat (or Mouse.) Radio-iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
- Replies: 208
- Views: 47444
Re: Tails of the radioactive cat (or Mouse.) Radio-iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
Thanks Lilith - I am sure I will be having long conversations with them in the new year. We only got the results of the post-medication blood test yesterday, so I doubt my vet has been able to set the referral process in motion, and he will be away over Christmas, so it will be a few weeks before ev...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Cat Chatting!
- Topic: New member - Pippin and Tilly
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2713
Re: New member - Pippin and Tilly
Thanks - got it! Here are Pippin, before he lost so much weight, sleeping with his usual dedication, and Tilly, fitted neatly into a shopping basket.
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Cat Chatting!
- Topic: New member - Pippin and Tilly
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2713
New member - Pippin and Tilly
Hello - I have two cats, both now 14 and a half, adopted from different rescue centres as kittens. Pippin is a ginger boy, getting rather arthritic and recently diagnosed with hyperthyroidism; Tilly (AKA Mistress of the Known Universe) is a small pale ginger girl, a perennial kitten and a mighty hun...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:31 pm
- Forum: Health and Behaviour Queries, Help and Advice
- Topic: Tails of the radioactive cat (or Mouse.) Radio-iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
- Replies: 208
- Views: 47444
Re: Tails of the radioactive cat (or Mouse.) Radio-iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism
I came to this forum looking for information about post radio-iodine treatment management - thanks for such a helpful discussion. Pippin is 14 and a half, rather arthritic but otherwise healthy, and was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism about 4 weeks ago after losing a lot of weight since Spring. He ha...