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I buy the Durham Animal Feed complete minced meat, which is a balanced combination of 80% muscle meat, 10% offal and 10% bone. They deliver widely, or you may find a local stockist. If you cook it (best simmered in water because of the bone) you can add a pinch of taurine to compensate for that lost...

I cook for mine - I buy the Durham Animal Feed complete minces, and feed them raw or gently simmered to make gravy and jelly, with a pinch of extra taurine to be safe when it is cooked. I cook vegetables for the dogs, and give the cats some of the broth from that, too. Mixing and rotating meats (chi...

Now that is a clever idea - thank you! I am experimenting with alternative positions for his food bowl, but will definitely bear this in mind if the cheapo option doesn't work out. Something similar may work for keeping the dogs out of litter trays when those eventually become necessary - ah, the wo...

Yes, they are chipped - and I did think about installing a microchip operated cat flap in the cloakroom/utility room door, but it would not be easy to keep the door shut shut. It is one of those spaces that is in constant use, with very little floor space.

I need ideas! I have two cats (Pippin and Tilly) and two dogs (Sophy, a papillon, and Poppy, a toy poodle). The dogs gobble any food they can reach and look round for more, so the cats are fed on a work surface in the utility room where the dogs can't get at their bowls - the cats like to eat a bit ...

Thanks Antonio - Pippin is happy to curl up in a warm bed almost anywhere, so I think a cosy spot in my study and occasional cuddles will keep him reasonably happy. I have two huge garages (full of assorted workbenches, projects and stuff!) so do have somewhere to store litter etc, although I think ...

Thanks Kay. I live in a converted Victorian building, with several acres of shared grounds that the cats consider their territory. There are children, young women and dogs using the grounds, so I will have to be scrupulous about keeping him in and managing waste - a secure private garden would certa...

Thanks Lilith - I am sure I will be having long conversations with them in the new year. We only got the results of the post-medication blood test yesterday, so I doubt my vet has been able to set the referral process in motion, and he will be away over Christmas, so it will be a few weeks before ev...

Thanks - got it! Here are Pippin, before he lost so much weight, sleeping with his usual dedication, and Tilly, fitted neatly into a shopping basket.

Hello - I have two cats, both now 14 and a half, adopted from different rescue centres as kittens. Pippin is a ginger boy, getting rather arthritic and recently diagnosed with hyperthyroidism; Tilly (AKA Mistress of the Known Universe) is a small pale ginger girl, a perennial kitten and a mighty hun...

I came to this forum looking for information about post radio-iodine treatment management - thanks for such a helpful discussion. Pippin is 14 and a half, rather arthritic but otherwise healthy, and was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism about 4 weeks ago after losing a lot of weight since Spring. He ha...