Cat Lovers Thread - 2024

I lost a cat to kidney disease, and like you am using up the kidney food with my remaining cat. I feed the prescription food one meal, and the other I feed Mouser. My theory – unsupported, I admit – is that we are feeding cats things they would never eat in the wild (chicken, beef eg) and that is the cause/trigger for some chronic diseases. This is because my cat with kidney disease also had pancreatitis, and the veterinary nutritionist I consulted said in cats pancreatitis is usually caused by an allergen, usually chicken.

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Interesting. Ours had pancreatic also (twice - second time is when we let her go).

OMG never had heard of this.

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Muridae? :rofl: Good name.

Wild and free roaming cats eat way more stuff… cockroaches, bugs, lizards, frogs, and definitely birds. When I was growing up, our free roaming cat brought home a few baby chickens among her “gifts.” I’m lucky the bat she caught was likely not rabid because neither the cat nor myself contracted the disease after handling the bat.

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Ha! One of mine has brought home a bat. I realized I was more afraid of bats than snakes. He has brought both of those home and it was easier for me to catch and release the snakes than the bat.

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Our cat got into the backyard a few weeks after we adopted here. I brought her back into the house and she promptly threw up a bird’s head at my feet. That ended any solo trips outside. Also I didn’t realize birds’ heads were so small.

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This is what mine has been eating lately. He’s gotten super picky!

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Intersting…

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/cvm-updates/fda-announces-position-use-compounded-gs-441524-treat-fip

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What is gs441524??

It is basically the active metabolite of remdesevir.

One of our cats died of what we suspect was FIP. The symptoms were all there
even though the vet did not test for it at that time because there was no treatment. Hope more cats with FIP diagnosis will get to live now.

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I thought my cats were fat… this cat takes the cake!!

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Ugh. Now mine is peeing outside the box. The little brat sticks his paws in and then pees outside of it. Had him tested for a bladder infection and he’s fine. Cleaned the box. Tried new liter etc….

Is it a covered litterbox?

bigger box? i resigned myself to put wee wee pads around the box when mine does this.

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I was going to suggest puppy pads, too. Sometimes, they win no matter what.

It has a top part but its not fully enclosed.

good idea! Off to amazon

Yea I’m trying to find a jumbo jumbo one. The one I have now is already pretty big. He just is insistent on only using the very edge of it

Many years ago, when our senior cat went outside the box, we essentially created a zero depth edge box so she wouldn’t have to step over the side. We kept it in the floor of a stall shower we never used.

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If you google “senior cat litter box,” there are many options available now. Like this:

https://www.chewy.com/frisco-senior-kitten-cat-litter-box/dp/580974

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