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I'm also surprised it has taken this long, mums naturally push their sons away once they hit sexual maturity, to prevent inbreeding. You may be lucky and find neutering him helps, but it may not, as mum/son is the worst combination unfortunately.

That is good, so far I've only seen Royal canin do one

I'm sorry to hear this, RIP little one

I agree with others, insurance isn't as easy to get for oldies as it used to be. Some rescues have deals with places like Petplan to offer 4 weeks insurance to adopters and I know that does cover older cats who they don't normally cover, but fairly sure it is quite a limited policy. I agree about bl...

I try and time them for their vaccs, especially cats like Lucy, although she is better at going in the carrier now, I don't turn up bleeding anymore!

I'm the kind of person who likes to monitor bloods with ongoing conditions regardless of vet wishes, I've had multiple cats who the vets didnt feel bloods were necessary based on symptoms yet they did indeed have conditions! Even healthy ones have bloods annually (I normally have senior cats) as I l...

I'm shocked that vet isn't suggesting alternatives to stop him getting to the wound, like a baby gro over it or a comfy collar. I am surprised he's got the cone off 5 times though, I don't think I've ever had one get it off and I've known them get stitches out, but not staples.

I'm sorry, but how much research have you done on these breeds to not notice how completely different they are? That is the main reason pedigrees do end up in rescue, because people don't realise the grooming/exercise requirements of certain breeds. If you genuinely want pedigrees I'd go to a pedigr...

Aww, glad to know she wasn't waiting long

In theory, they can come in heat days after giving birth, I've only had one mum cat come into heat before being neutered, her kitten was 8 weeks old. However you have 2 unneutered cats which is why I said she could already be pregnant

I'd ask cats protection for a voucher to get mum neutered, she may already be pregnant again.

I'm sorry that you have had to make this decision, I've been in the same situation where the newcomer wasn't happy being confined and the existing cats weren't happy to the point my male cat was spraying daily- potentially my fault for coming home with a male rather than female, but when my female c...

I'm sorry, I'm going to be a bit harsher. The likelihood of a pair of 13 year old cats, especially one being timid, finding another home is slim, and I can't see how you could consider giving them up after all this time in favour of a puppy you have recently got. I do think the first thing you shoul...

I'm another one who has had multiple cats with kidney issues, my first was older than yours and ate very little wet, wasnt interested in renal wet so we changed her dry to renal and her numbers came down on her blood test 3 months later. Back then there wasnt the variety of renal wet. My eldest has ...

If your local CP branch wont help with neutering, speak to HQ, they do help with vouchers to neuter ferals

I've had cats whose values have improved purely by changing their dry to renal and leaving their wet as normal, so if she's eating dry, I wouldn't stress too much

Hyper-t can cause changes in temperament but as she has been on meds for 2 months, I'd get her checked by the vet in case it is something else

Please don't reduce medication without speaking to your vet first

Just a word of caution, it isn't actually good for kittens to have check ups that young, luckily mum doesn't seem to have had an issue (too much interference can stop them nursing kittens), but they are at risk of picking things up that can affect their health. Also, please be careful photographing ...

Thanks for the correction. Not necessarily, I've had kittens from 530g to 1.2kg at 9 weeks, my vet was happy to neuter etc as long as they were over 500g at 9 weeks

I'm surprised your vet is suggesting fading kitten syndrome, that normally happens a lot younger. Do you mean 1lb or 1kg, as 1lb is 2.2kg which is large for a 9 week old, I think the largest when I was fostering was 1.2kg (although one of his brothers was only 600g, they looked funny sat together!)....

There are other brands available on Zooplus, might be worth trying

That's true Ruth, the cat I used the food processor taught me a lesson about a month after doing that when I caught her eating my other cats biscuits!

I have used a food processor to grind cat biscuits to a powder, but found most can eat biscuits with little problem, they just swallow whole, smaller biscuits like James Wellbeloved are good

I cheat with Lucy's treats, Royal Canin do some that are like dreamies, so she gets those, hairball treats and arthritis treats!

I hope you have spoken to the vet by now

When I have to syringe Lucy's water, I try and keep her head down so it doesn't end up in her lungs

I did wonder if that would be an issue for you. Well, my problem is more having a temperamental cat!

I hide Lucy's liquid gabapentin in her wet food, as when she had liquid ranitidine it didn't work very well!

I've never known a vet not be able to tell if a male has been neutered, I can tell just by looking with some males, and I've fostered 2 with undescended testicles and knew by feeling them! You would know though, as even with undescended testicles their wee has that strong unnetured tom cat smell. Ha...