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Anna has covered pretty much everything I think! The only thing I would add is that to begin with she may run into things from time to time. I adopted a cat who had just lost his sight and in the early weeks there were a few occasions when he got overexcited and ran full pelt into things like the do...

Yes, it makes me very angry too. Hops' physical scars healed well but the mental ones are still with him, he is a terribly anxious cat and used to have nightmares, he'd wake up in the middle of the night terrified and disorientated, and would cry until I went and gave him a cuddle. Sometimes he was ...

Hello, I also have a tripod cat, he had a front leg removed more than four years ago and it hasn't held him back at all. His remaining paws are also misshapen because he suffered damage to those too (the rescue he came from thinks he was used in dog baiting) and he can be a bit clumsy as a result, b...

So sorry to hear this, Kay, I will be thinking of you and Trigger tomorrow. Gentle fusses to your lovely lad x

I'm so sorry to hear this news, Helen. Big hugs.

Sleep tight Minnie x

I agree it is not wise to keep a cat on a very low protein diet for an extended period, but 'low' protein where cats with CKD are concerned is somewhere between 20% and 30% overall protein in a day. Rather than not being 'low', I think anything over 50% can probably be considered 'high' protein. Man...

It needs to be worked out in terms of % dry weight as the more more moisture there is, the higher the relative protein content.

Someone mentioned this thread to me so I popped in to have a look. It is important to remember that cats with dodgy kidneys need to have their protein as well as their phosphorus restricted. Lily's Kitchen foods are all quite high in protein (the 'chicken' dinner is lowest at 50%, the rest are at le...

I'm so so sorry Helen. I've not been on here for a while but someone told me about Peaches and I wanted to look in. Such an awful shock for you, and poor Daz must be lost without his playmate.

Hugs for you and cuddles for Daz.

Sleep tight Peaches x

After almost five years as a Catchatter I'm leaving the site. I don't want to be part of a community where a parochial few require everything to be sugarcoated and tell people who value a little honesty what they can or can't post. That is not what the site used to be about. Thank you to those remai...

Really sorry to hear about Pip. Sleep tight little one.

Good luck with Teasel, you worked wonders with little Peaches. Here's hoping Daz doesn't neglect his leading lady in favour of 'the new girl'!

Awww that is cute!

I don't think there is such a thing as a normal cat!!

Pip quite often spits her pill out, but usually I spot it and she doesn't get away with it!

Sorry Mark, only just catching up on this. I hope Laz is feeling better today. What did his T4 come back as? Pip's liver enzymes go up every time her T4 starts to climb (before it goes above the high end of normal), it was actually the factor that made the vet repeat the thyroid test before she was ...

I have mine all cut out ready for you Ria!! Just need to remember to bring them round...

I think what lilynmitz is thinking of is phantom limb syndrome, it's a kind of physical hallucination. Hops often tries to use his missing leg (particularly in the litter tray/when scrapping with Pip) although fortunately it doesn't seem to bother him. Phantom limb pain can be treated in humans but ...

She just goes mad. She'll be lying on my lap in the evening, and then all of a sudden she cries, runs off and starts scratching/grooming and goes nuts. Just don't know what to do to help her. This doesn't sound so much like a food allergy, has the vet considered hyperesthesia? My Hops has this and ...

Poor Millie :( I do feel for you and her, Clay had terrible skin (and latterly digestive) issues with food, and for months he was scratching and chewing his skin to bits (and he couldn't have regular steroids because he was FIV+). The first thing to share is that Clay responded terribly to the RC se...

Really pleased to hear you're keeping Cheyenne around, and that she's made herself comfortable in the shed, it's probably just the bed she wanted! You may well find that when the weather cools down later in the year (and the days get shorter) she starts coming back in for longer stretches again. I w...

It is also Cheyenne's life, Jacks, and I don't agree with encouraging someone to give up on a feral cat so soon. Eight months might seem like a long time, but a feral cat can take much longer than that to come around, especially if it isn't pushed to interact. I have a formerly feral RSPCA reject (t...

I agree with Hunny, animals aren't just homewares we can return if they aren't what we wanted. And it doesn't sound as if Cheyenne is the one that is unhappy with the current situation. I don't think returning her to the RSPCA will work in her favour at all, they are often all too quick to pts cats ...

I'm so sorry. Sleep tight little lady Molly x

Really sorry to hear that it's not better news. Everything crossed it turns out not to be a tumour, for a long time I expected the worst with Pip, but she's been having seizures for over two years now and is doing fine. She does odd things too, she will scratch frantically at her ear from time to ti...

Any news on Molly?

Thinking of you and Molly, I know what a worry it is, I had the exact same fears when Pip's seizures first started. Fingers crossed it's not a sign of something serious.

Don't give up on Teddy just yet, see how it pans out with the treatment. Another Catchatter had a cat that was diagnosed with a heart condition and not given long to live, and he survived for years! Even if Teddy only has a year or a year and a half, that's a lot of time for a cat to be loved. Finge...

I agree with Crewella. Cats with no/little experience of humans are frightened of the unknown simply because it's unknown. When it happens, their immediate response is panic, but when nothing bad happens to them it becomes a bit less unknown and a bit less scary. It takes a long time to overcome tha...

I remember him too, gorgeous lad! Happy gotcha day to you and Scholes

(Hope a special tea is on the cards?)

Presumably the bathroom is not part of the open-plan layout though? If she's sleeping in the bath, can you not spend some time in the bathroom with her each day? I know it's not anyone's first choice of location for hanging out, but twenty minutes here and there should be doable?