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Whereabouts are you based? If in the UK it might be worth posting on your local nextdoor app and reaching out to the local community.

That's a great idea about measuring the clumps! I have just switched her to a clumping litter as I was getting sick of trying to clean her tray with her going 500000 times a day. Its so much easier now. I haven't seen the blood results as they were taken at the original emergency visit, but I can gi...

So having peed more or less constantly since Friday night, today my little minx managed to cross her legs for 8hrs at the vets today. They kindly took her in today as I had a job interview and they looked after her all day to observe her. The sample I took down yesterday didn't show anything other t...

The vet gave me a call this evening to find out how Ivy was doing. I explained that she was no better, very anxious and leaving me little puddles around the house. We are booked in for tomorrow morning, as the vet was expecting her to have turned a corner by now. I am intrigued to see what the much ...

Sadly Ivy isn't seeming any better and her pee has a red tinge to it from the inflammation. I did however manage to finally get a urine sample this morning. The crystals were once again met with disdain, so I went with a bin bag placed over her regular litter and then gathered it up with a pipet. It...

All tangents welcome. You are all so helpful :) I am in a rented property, so limited as to what I can drill into the walls, but the tree I have ordered kinda suctions itself to the ceiling. So we shall see if she takes to it! I do have a garden, but annoyingly I live on a very busy, fast road plus ...

I have two bags this time and plan on using her smaller tray, whilst removing the bigger one upstairs. This evening I have a very spaced out overly affectionate cat, which I am guessing is the bup injection that she had. I remember last time she seemed to stay spaced out longer than expected. Howeve...

Yes they gave me the crystals. We tried them last time and Ivy decided to poop on them instead. She is very suspicious of them. Fingers crossed we will have better luck this time

After 3 good weeks Ivy clearly didn’t like the queen getting all the attention and last night she started straining in her tray again. My vets are great and got her in this morning. Still a soft bladder which is good, so we are back on the metacam and I am back to trying to get a urine sample to tak...

Fingers crossed he remains oblivious to it!

Could you crush the pills and mix them into her regular food? My Ivy is also an independent lady and refuses meds, but she hasnt figured out I am hiding it in her wet food yet.

Contact your local Cat's Protection who can help you to rehome him: https://www.cats.org.uk/what-we-do/giving-up-a-cat I am sure there will be other local rescue places that will have their contact details online. If they are unable to take them into their centres they often have teams of foster's w...

Thank you. I am currently interviewing with 3 companies, but that itself brings some extra stress.

She is back to being very suspicious of her food today, which is fair as I have snuck the cystease into it, but her toilet habits are all back to normal. Lets hope that continues

To be honest I have been stressed recently as I suddenly found out I am losing my job at the start of October. I have been very aware of trying not to let Ivy see me upset, but we live in a small home, so she may have picked up on it. She seems much brighter today and we had a couple of little play ...

A quick update.... Giving the bup via the syringe into her mouth was a no go. I tried 3 times, but she got stressed and then I had a little cry. I decided that our bond and not causing more stress was more important. I was still able to give her the last dose of metcam and after 12hrs of her going o...

We popped to the vets this morning and she had shot. We also came away with buprenorphine that I am going to give her very 12 hours. Looking forward to trying to get that into her mouth later! She has been fairly woozy from the shot, but that had meant she hasnt been to the litter box as much today....

Me again - I am potentially an idiot as I just realised that the vet may have shaved her neck to take blood on Wednesday.

On my home I popped into the vet and I have an appointment to take her in tomorrow morning at 9.30. I am so glad as when I got home she rolled over to greet me and I noticed that all the fur under her chin had been scratched away. I noticed a couple of clumps of fur the other day, but she is very fl...

We are doing her actually weight (4.4kg) and not her apparent ideal which is 4kg. Luckily she didn’t clock that I had mixed it with her felix soup last night and she has it all which was good. In terms of how she is doing, she is still going a lot and doing little 2p pees each time. I think I can st...

Luckily Ivy is the only pet in the house, but yes, the vet showed me how to draw up the correct amount for her. I am so pleased I can put it in her food, so giving it directly would be a nightmare with her. Poor little thing is still straining at her litterbox, but I expect it will take a few days t...

Ivy and I had a rather expensive evening at the out of hours vets as I came home to her straining in her litter box. Luckily her bloods are all good, Kidneys are fine and there were no crystals or bacteria in her urine. So, it seems she has some inflammation and she had an injection at the vets that...

Ivy hates rustling bags and will run in the opposite direction, but she loves to sit on crinkly, rough surfaces that make a noise. She loves the thick tissue paper that shoes come wrapped in and actively picks a hard surface over soft. It took her exactly 12 months to venture into the warm igloo I g...

Yeah she has done really well seeing as this is her 4th home (inc cats protection foster home) to date - and obviously her forever home. We have had such a predictable life due to covid so its always a little nerve-wracking when minor things throw her off. Normally its mainly the hoover that she hat...

Thanks everyone. We live in a very small house and I always joke that we have a time share for the bed, but obviously with me being ill I have been in it for much longer than usual. Yesterday afternoon she would come and meow at me every 30 mins or so, just to check I would wake up. I do know that a...

My little Ivy (9yrs - rescue - been with me for 1yr) has always been a little nervous and skittish, but has been becoming more confident over time. I currently have a stomach bug and since I have been ill and slightly out of routine she is actively avoiding me and not even wanting to take dreamies f...

Not picky at all. I do live on a busy road, so one rescue said no to me when I gave interest in one particular cat, but apart from that it was just a waiting game and an element of luck.

I adopted a rescue this year, but it took me 4 months to be successful. So, if you do want to adopt rather than buy you may need to wait a little longer.

I started trying to adopt in January and finally my little Ivy moved in with me in April. In that 3 months I was contacting shelters on a daily basis and cats were being rehomed so quickly, so I really wouldn't worry about the little one having to wait too long for a home. Plus shelters are brillian...

Wilko have also voluntarily withdrawn some of their dry food.

Thanks for such a thoughtful response. I was going to say that this is the only cat that comes to the garden, but then just as I started typing a ginger tom who lives next door appeared. He is 15 and normally very chilled out. I think he just came over for a quiet loo break! He kept his distance and...