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Beautiful sentiments Ruth, a small state of grief indeed. The end of an era. I shall feel very sad removing CC from my start-up tabs. Thank you all for your help with Boo and Moggin (Bobby and Molly) and Ruth for our lovely T-shirts, fjm and others for sharing food samples for fussy cats with condit...

Oh no! I came here as a refugee from another rather judgemental forum and have loved getting to know members and cats. It's my first stop in the mornings. CC will be very much missed.

The only time I ever had a cat on Fortiflora it made the Dire Rear 10 times worse. It doesn't suit all cats. Has the vet ever given an injection of vitamin B, or suggested trying Cobalaplex? Have you given pumpkin, or Pro-kolin? The trouble with antibiotics is that side effects include diarrhoea, an...

I feel largely the same about Sooty. I don't feel comfortable asking his legal owner for funds if needed when he has barely seen his cat for two years, I just hope he doesn't rack up any serious bills on my watch. If Felix has a warm place to sleep he is that bit less likely to need help, hopefully,...

Sorry to read this. Although some cats will never accept others, allowing them to be free in the same room after just two weeks was probably too soon. Introductions can take months, made up of small steps and giving them several days to get comfortable with each step before moving on to the next sma...

How lovely and clever of him to find a safe warm sleeping place under a caring watchful eye. Should we consider you now to have three and a half cats?

As we had our first proper frost this morning, an update is due. Sooty began to use the old cardboard box from last year around the corner sheltered from the wind and passers by but exposed to the rain, still with the old pillow I put in it for him, but he also liked the big pile of dry fallen leave...

Sorry for your loss, such an awful shock for you. Only a post-mortem might give you an answer, but that is costly and of course it won't bring him back. Twitching and even the whine can happen after death, it's possible he may have died instantly before he was picked up. It does sound more like a br...

So sorry for your loss, it is never easy no matter how right the decision.

I am so glad your son was able to be part of it right to the end, and that his first experience was able to be beautiful, peaceful and gentle, and to see himself what we mean by a kind release. Gentle thoughts are with you.

If the cats get on well in the house in every other respect, then to be honest I would look at how you are feeding rather than keep them separated I think. A lot depends on how you feed your cat - do you free feed or are there set meal times? I'm not selling anything but I resolved issues around fee...

Poor love, having to cope with a new place and new human/s at a senior age on top of being blind and deaf. And good on you to take her on, this sounds like the most amazing journey. When you say recently, are we talking days, weeks, months? Has she got used to your home yet, is she comfortable findi...

What a sweetheart. I once had a cat who had a similar looking scabby nose. I don't recall cost but in her case treatment was a simple one-off "skim" of the top layer of cells from the nose planum, and I do know it did not run into a four figure sum, I would have remembered that. We had no ...

I am sorry, and wish you all kindness and gentleness for her through her ninth life. In my personal experience it has always been an intensely sad moment but very peaceful for the cat and 3 out of 4 vets have been brilliant, even offering to let me pay later if I just needed to get out of there. You...

Bigger litter box might help too.

It was that time again! Having figured out that Molly's problem with the carrier may have been pain from the way we used to grab her and chuck her in quick before she could use her mackerel tabbiness to slip out of our hands, I picked her up much more gently and properly. There was a vocal protest b...

You could make your own apple sauce, just stew up a little apple for her with nothing added but a little water. Funny tastes like that can be really useful if you ever need to medicate her! I'm currently giving mine metacam in a tiny smidge of mayonnaise every morning. I don't think apple is harmful...

Hi and welcome! As the proud owner of a rescue cat who bolted under the bed every time I moved for the first 2 years, you're doing great! You have already identified what makes him skittish and when he feels relaxed with you, just keep giving him the space he wants and respect his need to take thing...

Hi and welcome to the forum, so lovely that you want to give this little one a good home. Some cats never manage to live well with others but with care and patience you can give everyone the best possible chance of success. Think months not weeks, and at every step of the long process give it a week...

Just waiting for definite confirmation but a kind lady at Felini says they should be able to send at a price, because postage and duty costs are high. We did ask a friend in Belgium but the cost on onward transmission is ridiculous. That said needs must and Molly needs so I must. Fingers crossed.

Hi folks, getting desperate! Searching for Felini Renal supplement Molly is having more real meat which is helping her weight and general health and wellbeing but she won't eat liver, kidney or anything else to make a complete balanced food out of muscle meat. Felini completes and balances and the R...

So sorry Papacat, poor Billy. I've heard of flystrike in horses but never heard of it really happening. Utterly devastating for you. So, so sorry for your loss.

Molly used to have a black spot under her jaw on one side. A bit under 2 years ago she had a dental and two FORLs were extracted. Recently I noticed the black spot has gone. In the words of a certain satirical magazine, are they by any chance related? The spot seemed like a stain on the skin, it was...

I could only regurgitate what is freely available on the web but my understanding is that FCoV is rampant and only a small minority of cases mutate to cause FIP. Your vet should be able to advise and be bang up to date as well. I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that a new treatment offered bette...

booktigger wrote: ↑Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:00 pm It's Chanel on the left and Coco on the right. Coco is only short haired, but clearly has the long haired gene to have at least one long haired kitten

Ah now thy all have long-hair genes, what long-haired cats lack is the gene to tell the hair to stop growing.
Cat genetics is utterly amazing.

Scrummy girls! Which is which?

Awful, I'm so sorry. Badgers are notoriously bad tempered creatures so I can understand them posing a risk to cats at close quarters. I was very wary when I took my cat away on holiday to the countryside years ago, the middle of nowhere, knowing there was a disused badger sett nearby, but I was far ...

I take it you have tried all her usual irresistible naughty foods? It's a careful balance if she starts to do this more often, as they are extremely clever at training us and if she figures out refusing all food will earn her the best treats, suddenly you can have a problem on your hands. But when t...

Not just domestic cats, all feline species have some level of kidney weakness, which can never be eliminated as it doesn't show up until after their breeding prime is over and their babies with the same genetic flaw have gone on to pop hundreds more genetically flawed kidneys into the world. A cat's...

I think most of us have been there feeling never again, and yet one day when the pain subsides enough and a little whiskered face needs help we somehow end up falling in love all over again. For some that may be days, for others it can be years, but that doesn't matter right now. Grief is a healing ...

That is quite early and sudden, though some cats can successfully hide ckd into quite advanced stages. Hydration is key to accurate tests though, so you may find an adjusted diagnosis once the tests have been done properly. Also some of the results can be affected by other factors, even something si...