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My Rocky has taken to depositing her fur balls around my bed. Twice I've stepped on them in bare feet in the middle of the night. Ewwww!
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We lost our last cat who was the brother of my kitty that I have now to lung cancer. He went so fast. One day I noticed him coughing. Six weeks later his breathing was so labored we had to have him put down. I still miss him so much. He was this big tabby with big round eyes. People always told us he looked like a teddy bear. His name was Daniel

It will be three years in August since we lost him. I'll post pic of him on my avatar.
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Gershun,

When my kitty had to be put down at 16 years old, the vet handed me the entire box of tissue to take home because I was crying so hard. It’s like losing a family member.

My husband was a dog guy. I love cats and dogs and owned both. He grew up with dogs.

He asked me to ask my mom if I could leave my cat at their house, so I could visit her when we saw my parents. She was my cat. I wanted her with me. Besides that she wasn’t my parents’ responsibility.

I didn’t even consider that. I told my husband that we were a package deal, marry me with my cat or else we weren’t getting married!

He must have loved me because he said that he would try to get used to owning a cat.

Well, it wasn’t long before the cat won him over! He loved her as much as I did.
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I want to be a lucky cat with a nice owner in my next life……
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Thank you Need.

We do everything we can for him but the stupid disease will win in the end.

He's curled up against my side right now.
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Onions and Garlic also bad for Cats .

Yeah , I never get angry when she vomits. I feel bad for her . She gets so scared .
She’s timid to begin with. She does not like change at all .
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Gershun,

I am so sorry that your kitty had a bad day. He’s very fortunate to have a momma who loves him so much! He’s been a sweetie in your life. It’s obvious how much you love him.

My brother has been sending me the cutest pictures of his cat sleeping on his keyboard. He has to move him to use his laptop.

It’s amazing to me how cats can get comfy anywhere! You know what people say, “I live with my cat! They don’t live with us.” They expect us to adapt to their world. Too funny! 😄
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Thx Send for the reminder. There are a few things that are toxic to animals. I know that mushrooms and raisins are a couple of other things that are toxic to cats among others.

Speaking of kitty vomit, my kitty vomited all over the place today. But he has kidney disease so it's to be expected. I'm usually able to steer him away from the rug when I start to hear the horrible vomit sounds coming from him. I never scold him even if he does get the rug. I know he can't help it. Poor thing.
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When your cat is shedding
When your cat throws up
When throwing up is rare
So it scares her
To run through the only room
With carpet .
🐈🙀😿🧼🧽
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Thank you for the reminder Send~
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Good morning! Hubs is on a zoom meeting in the living room, so I am hiding out in the bedroom with my chocolate croissant and coffee.

I wanted to remind everyone that chocolate is toxic to pets and wild animals.
Cats, dogs, squirrels, pet birds and wild birds, and more.....

People do forget sometimes, maybe because we express our love by feeding the animals, and mistakenly a treat we like holds more affection in it?

Here is the truth:
Chocolate is toxic to birds and can be deadly. Chocolate contains theobromine and caffeine, which can cause vomiting, diarrhea, hyperactivity, heart arrhythmias, seizures, internal bleeding, and death in birds. Darker chocolate is more toxic because it contains more cacao, which contains theobromine and caffeine. Birds may be more susceptible to theobromine's toxic effects because of their smaller size and faster metabolism.
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I am so glad Dumbledore is better! I don't have a kitty cat right now, but in the future would love one. I tend to love calicos especially. I had a British medium-hair that looked like a Russian blue named Smokey and a calico named Dolly until I was 17. I watched them be born (they were sisters). Dolly only liked me lol. I do love cats and would like to have one named Twizzler, although I am partial to black cats to and would name one Midnight. I am watching short videos on YouTube called Cat Memes and it makes me laugh.

My cats used to like to bat at my feet in the morning while I was half awake and half asleep. It sure did wake me up! One time a real mouse got in from the house and I told Dolly and Smokey, "Well, go get it!" They blinked at me like "What, are we supposed to do something?" Some might hunters, lol
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Hi, Ali! He's much better. Is eating lots of wet food, occasionally niggles at the dry stuff but eating small meals like 6 times a day. He's 11 or 12.
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Hi Barb, I just saw your posts about Dumbledore. So sorry he's not well! How distressing to see him going through this. Increased eating and some weight gain sounds good... Is he still on the mend? How old is he? Hope he's doing a little better. 💙😔💙

He is such a cutie. 😻
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He is such a cute kitty, Barb.
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With that litter-box-sit-in you were almost certainly looking at bladder stone (which may have passed) or crystals. Keep as low ash as you can in that fancy feast, but yeah, once they have THAT you can forget the other crap, ha ha ha. They love it. Look at ash content if listed on ingredients and go with lower ones if you can and mix in just a tablespoon of water or so with each can so he keeps good fluid input to help that bladder. I would bet on this. Not a whole lot of money, of course, but I would bet.
Thanks for the update, Barb, on dear Kitty D.
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I'm sorry not to have updated about Dumbledore (he's in my avatar photo now).

He's doing well. He turns up his nose at most food, but is scarfing down little cans of Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers at the rate of 3 to 4 a day right now.

He was down to 12 lbs at the vet and seems to have gained a few ounces. No other symptoms right now; really no idea what was going on there, but it was scary.

Thanks so much for all of your support and love!
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Barb any updates on Dumbledore?
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Barb,
How is Kitty D. doing?
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Yay Dumbledore! Keep eating your food and stop worrying your Mom.
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Hope Dumbledore continues to improve.
Just read this entire thread from the beginning (7 years!), and it's timely. I have Mamacita, a little Russian blue inherited from my late brother. Now she's 20 yrs old. She's blind (not a deal-breaker for indoor-only cats) and she knows her paths to food/bed/litter. Still enjoys food, cuddles, and lecturing me when I sleep later than she deems appropriate.
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Good news Barb. Hope he stays well for a good long while.
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Don't give dry food, Barb, esp now, and give "low ash content" food. If this is urine crystals or obstruction, then dry food would be hard right now, I think. But check with your vet.
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Glad Dumbledore is doing better, Barb.
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Dumbledore is doing better. He's eating canned food on his own now but won't touch the dry stuff.

I've done subq on a previous, very chill cat. Dumbledore fought the vet tech tooth and nail the other day when she gave him fluids.

Time will tell.

Happy Easter, everyone.
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We take our boy to the vet for sub q fluid. We tried it at home but it was stressful and he picked up on our stress so it didn't work out well. He is getting crankier every time we take him though. The vet is nearby but the whole getting him into the carrier etc. is a pain.

I nursed a cat back to health when I was in my twenties. I heated up the baby food and spoon fed her. Sometimes giving something that has a strong smell like liver pate or tuna works cause cats have such a strong sense of smell. Even just adding some tuna juice to their regular food works sometimes. I guess it depends on the cat and what's wrong with them.

It's a struggle when our pets are ailing that's for sure. If only they could talk.
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BarbBrooklyn, too bad cats can't talk to us letting us know if it a tooth ache, tummy troubles, urinary blockage, emotional issue, etc. Hope you find out what is ailing Dumbledore.
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Going to look in on kitty update later, Barb. Thinking of you.
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Awake at 2:30 in the morning because kitten - whom we have crated because of spay surgery Monday decided to take a 💩 outside the litter box and proceed to walk through it - though I cleaned the bottom of her feet with pet wipes and didnt see any evidence of that so hopefully it all smashed into the towel in her crate and not on her.

Next Friday kitten will be paroled and it can't come soon enough.
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I hope it's something curable or at least treatable. FWIW, we've seen 3 senior kitties through kidney failure. We did "sub-q" (subcutaneous infusion of fluids) on 2 of them, and it bought them additional quality time. They started eating, drinking, playing and behaving normally--until they didn't. However, both were basically compliant and not unduly stressed out by the process. (They also enjoyed the post sub-q treats.)

Kitty #3 did NOT take to sub-q at all, and we stopped after a few weeks (she was euthanized shortly thereafter). I probably wouldn't do sub-q again. We're old-old now and probably couldn't do as good a job of it, especially if kitty was resistant or stressed. Our current very shy, skittish 14+ Y/O kitty would definitely not allow it.
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