Sick cats

"Great Lady of the Cats,
I call upon your sleek form to aid me.
Your child is ill here in my arms.
Come to us and bathe your child
with your tongue and heal her wounds.

Heal her nose and mouth,
so she may breathe and taste.
Heal her teeth and claws,
so she may hunt and eat.
Heal her eyes and ears,
so she may know the world.

Heal all those things that let her digest,
So she can grown healthy.
Heal her heart, lungs and legs,
so that she may travel on.

Heal her skin and fur,
so she may show beauty.
Heal her bones and joints,
so she can play again.
Heal her tongue,
so she can heal her sisters"

(Bast was the Egyptian goddess of cats)

They always seem to do this when you're hoping to get a good night's sleep, come to think of it...

My other S/O has a cat which sprayed his bed everytime he came to see me for the weekend. And then would spray my bag when I went to sleep there. She now semi-accepts me, but only if I don't pay her any attention. And there's little love lost between us because she has gotten sick, twice, on my textbooks. YECH!

disabled cat video ;_;

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dJQG6V1MOVY

omg

I don't know what to think - it's sad but sweet but heartbreaking but he's not in pain :-(

My cat, Bartleby, has cerebellar hypoplasia and she is seriously the best thing we ever paid money for. She's not affected as badly as Charley is, but she still walks like a drunk and falls down a lot. She's such an awesome, personable cat.

I would have hugs with all these disabled cats.

Tomorrow Mr. Meows, a friend's cat, is coming to visit for a week while his person is on vacation. Mr. Meows has kidney failure. One of my cats, 17 years old, also has kidney failure. So they will be able to hang out and chat some about things, maybe get some old cat cuddling in.

my cat has a huge hairball problem. she's been puking up food the last day or so, with hair matted in it, so it seems there's another beauty on the way. except they're not so much hairballs as hair LOGS. gross.

she puked on a scale this morning...maybe she's bulimic and sending me a message?

i couldnt help but giggle at that sorry!

Feed her that kittymalt stuff - works great to keep them from puking up the hairballs. Mine both get this when the weather warms up and they start to shed - I caught one of them eating a cat hair dust bunny under the couch the other day, so it is like it's on purpose.

the main prob is that she hasn't coughed up the actual hairball yet. i think it's still stuck in her tummy, making her cough up food.

yeah, the malt stuff is a laxative that lets the hairballs depart the other end of the cat.

i'll look into it!

EW!

I kind of worried about my 17-yo siamese who has kidney failure disease. She's down to 6.5 pounds now. She seems happy enough and sometimes playful, but she's just puking an awful lot of late, prob due to all the garbage in her blood. Just took her to the vet yesterday, and I'm going to up the amt of weekly pro-kidney IV fluids to make her feel better. Blood tests should come back today or tomorrow.

I feel like my hopes of her living to at least 25 may not come true after all.

Our cat with renal failure has done much better with the vomiting since the vet prescribed PEPCID (as in people pepcid)--quarter of a 10 mg pill once a day. Now she yaks only once every month or two!

My cat has been getting pepcid -- 1/2 a pill per day -- but I fear that it may cause diarrhea.

Blood tests are back:

normal BUN is 14-36 and she is 41
creatinine nl is up to 2.4 and she is 2.9
so that's really not bad

I hope this means I have my kitty for a little longer. She has an infection, so it's antibiotic time.

i had to have my lil nig put down earlier this year when his kidneys failed

dude was 18 - RIP lambchop lord of cats ;_;

my cat's in surgery today let's get some positive vibez ppl

*makes supportive star pawz*

An infected wound + anaesthetic + 24 hours alone at the vet's = one very traumatized cat. :( :( :(

she actually needs stitches but needs a few days on antibiotics to clear the infection first - not looking forward to bringing her back to the vet's on friday. she's an outdoor cat, and is already going crazy having to be kept in a room all day. sigh.

One of our cats recently died.

The surviving cat (about 7 years old) appears to want us to watch him eating. He'll wake us up in the night (tapping on furniture etc) and then walk to his food bowl, despite there being food in there (which he will eat).

Any ideas?

Cats are mental. Ours likes to stare to stare at us eat, but if you give in and give him a scrap he (usually) doesn't want it.

Our surviving cat did the exact same thing until he himself passed. Good luck.

cat mourning can lead to strange behaviour for sure. my wife was out of town for a few weeks doing an educational program a while back and my cat assumed she was gone for good i guess and would just walk around the apartment meowing loudly constantly. wasn't so much fun

I don't know if it's mourning behaviour but one of our cats is like that too - won't eat the food in her bowl until someone comes into the kitchen and stands next to her. It started after she was sick recently and wouldn't eat so we had to feed her by hand. I kinda think she wants us to keep feeding her that way, maybe associates it with her feeling better.

We used to own my cat's mother as well, they had an incredibly antagonistic relationship and when she died his behaviour didn't change one bit.

apparently that's common with mother's and children. someone told me it's because mother cats kick their kids out when they're a year or two old so they can be mean to their offspring if they end up cohabiting long-term

like they give them a grace period of not being affected by their territorial nature when they're little but once they're grown up they're just another cat in their space

That makes sense. The son of my cat started terrorising his mother after he was two years old, bossing the household. They're with my ex but he still does this I'm told.

ah i suppose it swings both ways. infant cat is affectionate with mother, grows up and becomes independent and can have antagonistic relationship

My cat does sort of similar things when I've been out of town -- hesitant to finish her food unless she knows I'm around to give her more. Anxious depression-era cat behavior?

yeah if i leave my cat she barely eats, just hoarding for the future i guess

My cat is overgrooming herself and I don't know how to make her stop. Her hind leg is half bald now :(

It's probably stress related; my gf moved in with her two cats this summer. But she doesn't seem stressed at all. She's as happy and spunky and awesome as ever, at least on the surface.

could be an allergy-related skin problem, maybe try changing her food

Yeah I'll look into that. I'd love it if it were something simple like that, and not related to stress or anxiety or anything like that. Her skin doesn't look red or irritated at all though.

my poor cat Five has something wrong w his right ear. it is kind of puffy and inflamed. i looked it up and it sounds like it might be a blood vessel or something but not too serious. this is something common among cats when they tend to shake their heads and Five has always done this. i suppose he needs to go to the vet. (;.;)

he isnt super in pain or anything though. for instance he just jumped on my bed and tried to sit on my "Mars Audiac Quintet" record. are there any homemade remedies or herbal/oil-based remedies? i know cats are super resilient but would rather not him go under the knife.

my old cat got a big blood filled ear and then had some surgery and had an imo highly distinguished and characterful wonky ear

I would have to stage an intervention if my cat started sitting on my vinyl, particularly my Stereolab.

I'd get him to the vets. I'd imagine that it would be an injection of antibiotics, maybe some minor surgery? But best to get it checked out?

Hello. My cat is 14 years old. He's developed a "cough" that usually appears when he's sleeping and wakes him. I'd initially assumed it was a weird fur-ball thing (he's not, compared to previous cats, been very "fur-ball-y") but took him to the vets. He's had a sedation and scans and been prescribed steroids (his cough lessened for a few days after the sedation but came back). He's had a general anaesthetic and a lung wash ... but nothing came of this (After asthma was ruled out, a lung infection was presumed). We're waiting for virology results. Vet has suggested (after all these things) that he might have an allergy but can't think of anything that might have changed in his existence. Anyone experienced anything similar? Any ideas?