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Spaska goes everywhere now, she is extremely agile and nimble, no height is too high for her

As long as Mila doesn't start fearing the litter box they can do whatever, but she cut her off today as well. It's impossible to catch Spaska on time, she bolts after Mila as soon as Mila enters the litterbox, both Casper and Kala used the litterboxes just fine today, but nope, as soon as Mila goes ...

Don't think so, but even in a coverd one she'd do the same, plus they like to move around if possible and stuff. She is just watching, but she holds onto the railing, standing on her hind legs and tries to sniff their butts as they pee or poop lol This REALLY agitates Mila, especially. This is how S...

Time, patience and lots of love. If it's the type of cat that likes being friendly he/she will come around eventually, if not there's just some cats that prefer to be more aloof and on their own. As long as it's happy, healthy and not feral and not hurting anybody it's all good :) Also cats can chan...

Sorry, in all the excitement I forgot to ask one important question I've been meaning to ask for a few days now. Spaska likes to watch the adult cats use the litterbox, this is normal, Casper and Kala did the same with their Mila when they were kittens. The thing about Spaska is that she gets too cl...

Thanks everyone! yeah those two weeks or so with Mila's heatstroke and step throat were pretty stressful, but she recovered so here's hoping nothing bad is going to happen in the near future, everything was fine for years. Worst case scenario if the strep throat comes back/turns chronic she'd have h...

I wasn't sure if I should post or not because I didn't want to clog the forum with my posts since other people's need to be seen and read too, but today was one month since we found Spaska on June the 20th. I just want to share with everyone how far she's come IMG_3488LR2.jpg Here are some pics form...

My cats aren't toys or there for my personal entertainment, some of mine are more clingy than others, some have changed over the years. I'm just happy when they're well, when they're healthy, why would I be disappointed in a cat, they're wonderful creatures, I'd never feel disappointment in a pet, t...

I missed the time out part too. Cat's minds don't work like those of humans, punishing a cat for anything, especially going in the wrong spot can only lead to more problems. I don't want to assume anything, but I've seen one too many cases of people "punishing" their cats by rubbing their ...

This kinda stuff can be difficult to deal with but not impossible. If she goes in specific spots every time you're going to have to consider putting litter trays there, I specifically mean trays, something shallow she can walk in and out of with no effort but that has enough depth to have a decent a...

these pics are a few days old, I tried snapping some today but all I got was a gray blur where the kitten was supposed to be, wonder why XD IMG_3398.JPG ] IMG_3401.JPG Spaska is a fully fledged "cat" now, she runs around, climbs wherever she can clmb, she is very hyper....and she is going ...

I can't tell if Mila is doing better or if her throat is flaring up again. Last night she was eating normally, even dry food, this morning she ate wet food without issues and acted perfectly normal. But then when she tried to eat dry food, you could tell she wasn't ok with it. She tried eating dry f...

Thanks, Mila is still terrified of eating from food bowls but she does eat dry food if you hold it in your hand. I was giving her some RC Kitten earlier and she gulped it up good without issues or so it seemed to me. I'm going to be feeding her kitten food for a week or so unless she herself goes ba...

Good news is, Mila had some sour cream all by herself a few hours ago and just now Kala was begging for wet food, I filled Mila's platter the most hoping against all hope she'd eat and she ate it all up without issues. It was Felix, either chicken or salmon I honestly didn't see which one I picked b...

Thanks :) I come from a family of doctors too My grandpa was a heart surgeon/heart doctor, grandma a neuro psychiatrist worked as a psychiatrist and my aunt is a neuro psychiatrist who worked as a neurologist her entire life. During my first college, psychology, I had excellent grades in Physiology ...

No I wanted to ask for some kind of pain killers but he didn't suggest anything. I saw Mila eating dry food on her own earlier, I couldn't tell if she swallowed any but she seemed to have maybe she has plenty of mushy stuff to eat but even that proved too much for her, here's hoping she ate some dry...

Thank you so much yeah I panicked big time because of all the scary stuff I read. My vet didn't want to do a sample and even if I ask again they won't do it, they might if the current treatment fails to produce results. Mila refuses to eat anything but she drinks chicken broth, I hope that's enough ...

Well now I'm in full on freak out mode I tried reading online about streptococcus and from what I could understand from these convoluted articles the type that manifests with bronchopneumonia which is what my cats appear to have is often FATAL. so..this means no matter what we try, antibiotics, immu...

Thank you so much Ruth, you've always been so supportive over the years :) Mila definitely has a lot of trouble eating/swallowing yet she is hungry and wants to eat. Dry food, even wet food or white chicken meat are all out of the question, she had to lick mashed food in order to get some food in he...

Of course I meant Strep Throat, why would I spell it like that, man I can't think clearly it's all so much stress. The cats have always had lung issues, Kala in particular so we're hoping she doesn't get worse too, for now she is not affected by this. All three cats, Mila when we adopted her already...

Yeah, so this is more serious than we thought. I knew something was off, you see Casper also developed this extremely loud purr so I sent my vet a video of it, tho it's only in the beginning of the video and later in the video https://youtu.be/5Y7hwtnJGuc The vet checked Mila's mouth, teeth, gums, e...

Dang, seems Mila has a bad tooth, maybe that's why she ran a fever and it wasn't a heatstroke at all So she tried eating dry food now, she is clearly hungry but afraid to eat, she put one kibble in her mouth and it clearly hit the bad tooth because she koncked the bowl with her head and got scared. ...

Weird thing just happened, Mila was grinding her teeth again, this is how this whole mess started in the first place. I took her temperature and it was normal 38.5C and she behaves normally too I suspect a sore tooth or gums, but the vet didn't find anything last time, she only grinds her teeth when...

Hopefully Mila's kidneys are fine and if not maybe the vet is going to be able to manage her just fine, after all it's been years since back when Anastasia got her CRF :) Thanks for all the encouraging posts guys, it really helped...man this was a weird week with the heatstrokes and everything but f...

yeah no PKD i make sure to test for that, even Anastasia before them had no PKD yet she developed CRF at age 5 and the vet was very puzzled. I know Chronic Renal Failure isn't that big a deal if the cat is cared for properly, but here vets refuse to give them those under the skin IV fluids you need ...

microchip feeders I've never seen here but sure, we have renal food I used it with my previous persian, Anastasia. My vet also has some pills that supposedly slow down CRF in both cats and dogs even if they're on normal food from what she told me once. I still hold out hope that it might be a tempor...

I'm sorry to be a bother, but while the cats BEHAVE well, I can't help but take note of the downright unhealthy amounts of water Mila consumes, even after eating wet food, so we all know what that means I believe :( I was really hoping she'd live past 10, heck her mom was apparently 14 when she had ...

That's very interesting, maybe that's why she learned to respond to her name so early on.

I stopped wet food a week before the kitten got here They started getting the runs from Felix wet food first, which they used to eat just fine until recently. Seems Casper is back to drinking water now, the weather is great today and not overly hot so all 4 cats behave normally. I'm not too happy wi...

Thanks for the quick reply, I suspected an infection from the kitten too but the vet shut that down immediately because she said the kitten is completely healthy. She said Casper's dad has had the same issues, it's a good thing we prevented a full on heatstroke in Casper. They've been cooling his da...