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When I've had kidney scans done, it's been classed as an ultrasound, so about £40-50, depending on if they needed sedation, but that was about 7-8 years ago. I've not heard of CKD in a cat that young, what was the reason for her having blood tests?

Apparently her blood test ruled out secondary and tertiary hyper-parathyroidism, but not primary! Just rang vets, they test potassium and sodium, not magnesium, but she's not had full bloods since August 2017, she's just had SDMA and Calcium since then, but everything was normal. Have got some provi...

Yeah, basically the various tests ruled out causes, so no idea what caused it! She was diagnosed with CKD in March, hip op April, hospitalised for her calcium in June, looking back at what I posted then initially there was a concern it was infection from the operation, but that was ruled out and the...

That's why I'm torn, I want to know the full story with her underlying health issues (£3k of tests showed she has idiopathic hypercalcaemia - although seeing as it started 7 weeks after her hip operation, I'm convinced it is connected, even though 2 vets and a specialist said not), but she seems sta...

Thanks - sorry, think I missed something out last night - we can do pretty much full bloods on her without sedation, it's only her calcium levels they can no longer do in house, and there are no signs that has gotten worse, I do think her kidneys have though, she does drink more and immediately afte...

Need a bit of advice please. Lucy normally has her bloods every March, she's not had any since March 2020, so I wanted both her kidney and calcium levels checked, but the vets EPOCH machine needs a part and it's quite old so they can't get it, so the only thing they can do is the lab test, which req...

No, that didn't exist when Lucy was diagnosed, she has had a bag, but as it was years after diagnosis, I didn't bother again. We initially just changed her dry food, as she has always preferred dry to wet. She never used to eat 100g pouches, but she happily munched her way through a whole renal pouc...

We actually did the opposite Molly - Lucy was 9 when she was diagnosed from an SMDA test and we changed her diet but didn't go down the medication route, she's 14 now, as you know, we are waiting for this years bloods.

6 is very young to be diagnosed with CKD, I would definitely do the ultrasound and would be asking for it earlier than that. Is she a particular breed of cat?

I haven't got any RI experience, but just on the hospitalisation/weight loss, Lucy lost nearly 500g after her hip operation, as she's another one that doesn't do well being hospitalised (the second time, I had to do a 25 mile round trip every day to get her to eat!) and she was also fine after

She was 8 when I adopted her. She wasn't overly friendly at the rescue, there was only one cat they could put in a room with her, they had wanted me to adopt both, but at the rescue Lucy was more of a lap cat, and June was more playful (she was only 4) and I thought they were too different for a one...

Lucy didn't fully match my list of requirements - I wanted a female cat, over the age of 12, who'd been there the longest. I could either have a female over the age of 12 who'd been there a matter of weeks, or a choice of 3 females under the age of 12 who'd been there over 12 months, I was torn betw...

That reminds me of when I went to pick Lucy up, I'm friendly with the people who run the rescue, but they were off, so the person on that day thought I was just going to foster Lucy and the look on her face when I asked for the paperwork to adopt her was priceless. They had 3 hard to home cats, who'...

I often have similar thoughts about Lucy, I remember once, I'd not had her long and me and a friend were having a heated debate upstairs, Lucy walked round downstairs yowling till we shut up, so a house hold with more than one person wouldn't have been good for her, and with how bad her food aggress...

Thanks, I wasn't sure if I was reading too much into it. They were separated for 3 weeks before I got them, I think Chanel could have come round, as the first few days she would purr while you stroked her (once she'd drawn blood on you), but then when they started cuddling together, she refused to r...

Coco did something today that I think might be quite a big thing - it's not the first time actually, but I didn't twig what she'd done the first time! I was just waking up at 6.10 when I heard a weird yowling, so I got out of bed, and found a toy on the landing (which ironically I saw in their room ...

What were the antibiotics given for? I'm surprised your vet hasn't suggested a full blood panel including thyroid given her age. I've had a cat with intestinal lymphoma and she had diarrhea and poor fur condition, nothing else.

It might not be a bad thing looking into a mincer, I also remember reading that mince isn't ideal as it can harbour bacteria more than chunks of meat but that may just be raw meat.

I thought I'd read years ago that it was the fat molecules in pork that made it hard to digest.

I thought pork was too fatty for cats to easily digest?

We've ended up with option 3 for Lucy, with the logic that a bit of weight will be a good if she has a crisis. Her joints must be worse in one way, as she has stopped jumping on the worktops (much to my relief, she's such a scavenger), but I was given some Yumove from a colleague who's cat had died,...

Certainly wasn't something I was keen to try, but when we realised she'd need regular blood tests, it seemed essential so I didn't have to drive to the vets bleeding and prevent her drawing blood on the vet, it's normally done just before a vet visit, the trick seems to be to wait till she's just wo...

Fingers crossed her levels come back fine. Glad Tilly is OK, and good luck getting weight on her. Well, Lucy should have been going for her booster and bloods on Monday, but I'm insisting that they test her calcium levels as she's had no bloods since pre Covid, they rang on Thu to say there was a de...

Does the charity who is going to take him not have a trap you can borrow? I know some vets do loan them out with a deposit, other than that contact your local CP. Good luck

No, sadly the house isn't set up to be able to block off the upstairs, that was their night out

Fingers crossed - I need to get Lucy in for her boosters and bloods, not going to accept no for an answer this year! The others are doing well thanks - they still only interact in their own way, and don't like being touched, but Chanel has started sitting in the entrance to the bathroom when I'm bru...

I tend to get a lot on Amazon using subscribe and save - 5% discount for up to 5 items, 15% discount for more than 5 items - bought more than usual this month as prices have started to go up, we have a mix of Felix, Whiskas (for a friend) and Gourmet. At the moment, their 40 pouch box of Felix are c...

Unfortunately Lucy is more fight than flight - even a simple play session yesterday got her worked up enough to lash out at me. She is better at Molly than being stroked and picked up, however if she isn't in the mood for it, she will let you know. Over the years, she has got better, now she will so...

Not sure it'd work, she has her grass pot outside the front door, and if it is a bit low, she goes to the bottom of the street and eats it from there. She can be, she is the first cat I've had that you have to battle with to get back in the carrier at the end of the app, vet normally wanders off lau...

Yes, i've fostered 252 cats/kittens, normally quite good at judging, especially tabbies, but I had one litter that had a fluffy black - I wasn't sure, 2 friends both guessed girl, it was the one time the vet nurse went off my list when neutering kittens, vet had just started the op when she asked if...