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Yes you can and need to treat now using the veterinary products we mentioned.

You need to go to your vets and get the cats advocate or stronghold, and whilst there get their household treatment spray ( indorex or rip flea), then treat cats (you will also need to worm them as fleas cause tapeworm) and all of you need to leave the house for a few hours spraying every nook and c...

They are thriving normal 7 week old kittens now.......

My vets now recommend monthly worming for cats that hunt.

Thanks I hadn't read that one so will take a look. The more I read the more concerned i am about her future cos she is so young....

That's the worst bit, nothing happens now..... There is no treatment and no cure, all they can do is drip and painkillers when she gets a flare up, but that's what's unknown at the moment, could be weekly or once every few years, no one knows! She has to have low cal bland food but she was already o...

Meggys results are back already, she definitely has pancreatitis, the numbers on the test are 0-3.5 normal, 4-6 mild pancreatitis and 6 plus severe, she is 7.5

Thanks everyone :) Yes I was suprised it has go off to the states too, apparently its a snap test initially then goes off to get exact figures back and the higher it is the worse it is apparently, but he also said there shall chance snap test was false positive so investigations could be back to squ...

Thanks for asking crewella, Meg is a conundrum! We have to wait 2 weeks for bloods to come back from the states for confirmation, she is now home on morphine 3 times a day and is eating and pottering about for fuss, but isn't right still and doesn't seem to be fully mobile on her back end, sort of '...

Maybe try a different lítter.....

Thank you, they have sent bloods off to lab for confirmation with the 'real' pancreatitis test but he seems quite sure it's what she has and said it was a 'guarded prognosis' as not all recover :( It's really shocked me as it was so far from what I was expecting, she is in on a drip and vetergesic f...

Ah really pleased for basil tho

My Meg has been the same all weekend, emergency vets yesterday gave methadone for poss spinal injury, my own vets have admitted on drip with first bloods indicating pancreatitis she is only a year old.

Thanks everyone, it is amazing to see him now compared to 2 weeks ago as he is dashing about chasing his sister, at least they are worth the grey hairs Mark..... although I have no idea how/if I will part with these 2 to rehome them! Cats number 6 and 7 here I come!

I lost my miffy aged 17 last year and she had 3 pancreatitis flare ups in her last 5 years of life, just like basil just went off food and became weak and ended up on a drip each time, each flare up took about a week for her to start to improve and eat, she was so weak and thin normally bless her an...

He is doing brilliantly now eating and playing as he should and has nearly caught up with his sister in weight! He is Jed and she is franki.

Have you checked her nipples? If she is pregnant they get swollen and pink teats before the weight gain. A cat that isn't pregnant will have nipples the size of pin heads, if they have had litters in the past they will be a bit bigger than this tho, but if preg will be prominent and pink with a noti...

As a rescue we never home single kittens where they will be home alone all day, the average person does and 8 hour working day with travelling time before and after added to that, that is a really long time for a kitten that is missing it's mum and litter mates to be alone. If you really only wanted...

Thank you

He is doing really well
Although typically now has gone the other way and isn't pooing! But he is full of beans and playing and feeding well. Weighs 360 grams now.

The fip itself is not contagious and it's highly likely your cat contracted the coronavirus long before symptoms of fip appeared, and the corona virus is spread in their feaces so not likely to be around the home. I would highly recommend to be on the safe side you purchase some virkon from e bay or...

Thanks guys
He continues to get bigger and stronger, I took him to see for a check up again this morning and he is now up to 280 grams and really playful and full of energy, I really thought I had lost him Wednesday night so am so pleased.

He is really good thank you
Weight is up to 248 grams this morning, feeding really well and no more diarhoea

It can be used monthly and if only using that you would need to for flea control but I only worm
Mine 3 monthly so use advantage the other 2 months.

Yes I have used it on a few now, seems to work and does all worms too incl roundworm.

It's been a huge help. He is still very up and down with his tummy and his feeding but continuing to hold his own, he has that skinny 'pinched' look about him, so desperately underweight :/

Thanks all ESP HB, I have got and started infacol, we are celebrating our first solid poo tonight so he is def improving

Thanks yes he did make it through the night and is improving, although I daren't think he is going to make it, he is at least no longer at deaths door! The vetegesic seemed to relax him enough to sleep more so I didn't feed him as often as usual and gave him sub cut fluids instead, he awoke quite br...

Thank you hunnybunny, I did wonder about diluting the formula down a bit, my vet is great and will try anything we discuss but like you say it's so hard and always a bit of a 'what if' guessing game. Far too early to say but he slept 3 hours following the meds, then just took 10 mil (a lot for him) ...

They were on cimicat originally but both had bad tummies so we switched to rc babycat milk which seemed better til last few days. But can try some if he makes it til tomorrow. Thanks.