To preface I have severe OCD and medication is one of my main themes. I’ve had horrible reactions to meds in the past including ssris and even otc cold meds.

Anyways my kitten was seen at the vet today and they put mirataz on his ear and also sent him home with some because he’s had lack of appetite after a move.

I’m afraid to touch him at all after reading about the dangers and side effects and it’s stressing me the hell out to be honest. Anyone else have anything to share that may make me feel better? I know you need to wear gloves to apply but I feel afraid to touch him even hours after application without gloves because I feel the medication will still transfer and affect me.

Thanks.

I am unsure of her age but we've had her for a few years and has been constantly sneezing with no other symptoms

This has happened before but only lasted one day and I am worried, what should I look out for or do?

this lasted throughout Saturday-Sunday, stopped Monday, and began again today

My senior female cat has bladder stones and she has authorization for different Royal canin health features. Urinary, urinary + calm, urinary + calm + aging. This is just so she has more food options to choose from as she’s extremely and dangerously picky, and I’ve spent hundreds of dollars just to figure out which prescription urinary food she will eat.

I ordered a small bag of the urinary + calm dry kibble and she really likes that one. I was thinking I might as well change it to urinary + calm + aging, but I’m worried it might smell or taste different and she won’t like it.

She also likes wet morsels but I got just the urinary version. I’d like to also move that one to the urinary + calm. I don’t think they have that specific flavor in +aging.

She hated the wet loaf flavor. Those I got in U+C+A (there another $80 😔)

I have been feeding my cats purina seafood medley and purina canned cat food for their whole lives. One of cats keeps getting constipated even though I feed him wet food with a lot of water. My new kitten also now was constipated and meowing while going to the bathroom. I was wondering what kind of cat food do you guys recommend switching to? Should I only feed wet food? Or should I look into making my cats their food?

Thank you guys in advance.

Hello. My 10 year old FiV neutered male cat indoor/outdoor cat (now fully indoor) came home Jan 27 w a wound on his back left leg. I have no idea how he got the wound. It doesn’t look like a scratch or a bite, to me it looks like he got caught on or in something and he pulled his leg away and “degloved” his leg (vets verbiage) and since then the wound has not healed. The vets first thought was to stitch the wound together and that was mid February. There was barely enough skin to stitch it together but they did it, and the stitching ended up being useless because something called “granulation tissue” started to form in between the stitching. So back to square one. Every other day I was taking him to the vet so they could do hydro therapy and laser therapy.. that wasn’t doing much. The vet went to a seminar and found out a special kind of bandage called Calcium Alginate, that she found out works great for wound healing. So we’ve been using that for 3 months now. I take him to the vet every mon, wed, and Fri so they can clean the wound and apply a fresh bandage. The Special bandage did seem to be working for a little bit and the wound started to shrink but since all healing seems to have slowed down drastically. He’s on gabapentin and has had 2 different round of antibiotics. He’s eating and drinking fine and is still playful. They did mention a skin graft and possibly an amputation. But that has been put on hold since the bandages were working for a while there. I don’t really wanna go that route because if he’s not healing from a seemingly small wound like this I’m afraid that he won’t heal from something like an amputation. My thoughts are he’s not healing because he’s FiV positive and has a weakened immune system. Any help in any way would be much appreciated!

Link for pics!! https://imgur.com/a/w0LLAUW

Kitty pic! https://imgur.com/a/Vl9TeWQ

My 11 month old cat has been having skin issues for the past 6 months. She gets these huge scabs around her mouth, chin, above her eyes and behind her ears and occasionally on the back of her neck.

When it started out, we were told it was cat acne and treated it with wipes, cleanings, new bowls, new food that was less greasy and new water bowls.

Then it got worse so we took her to a new vet. The vet treated her for mites as he was concerned it was demodex. So he gave her nexguard and tresaderm drops for her ears and scabs. We did the drops for a week, then stopped for a week and then resumed for another week. When using the drops, they go away. But they came back so we took her back and he treated her for demodex mites again. And told us to do another round of tresaderm.

The scabs and hair loss came back AGAIN so we started her in a food elimination diet using HA purina. She is on week 2 out of a 8-12 week trial.

Her scabs and patches of fur loss is overwhelming. Poor baby has such bad scabs that she’s picking them off and having bleeding wounds on her face. He told us to continue the tresaderm for now. But I’m just so concerned. He said he does not think it is FIV at all and is almost certain it’s a food allergy. She was tested for ring worm and it was negative. No blood test done yet.

Does anyone have any advice or insight they can offer? We’ve been to the vet 3 times in the last 1 1/2 months and we will continue to take her back until we have answers but I’m wondering if anyone can think of anything that maybe we’re missing.

Hello. My 10 year old FiV neutered male cat indoor/outdoor cat (now fully indoor) came home Jan 27 w a wound on his back left leg. I have no idea how he got the wound. It doesn’t look like a scratch or a bite, to me it looks like he got caught on or in something and he pulled his leg away and “degloved” his leg (vets verbiage) and since then the wound has not healed. The vets first thought was to stitch the wound together and that was mid February. There was barely enough skin to stitch it together but they did it, and the stitching ended up being useless because something called “granulation tissue” started to form in between the stitching. So back to square one. Every other day I was taking him to the vet so they could do hydro therapy and laser therapy.. that wasn’t doing much. The vet went to a seminar and found out a special kind of bandage called Calcium Alginate, that she found out works great for wound healing. So we’ve been using that for 3 months now. I take him to the vet every mon, wed, and Fri so they can clean the wound and apply a fresh bandage. The Special bandage did seem to be working for a little bit and the wound started to shrink but since all healing seems to have slowed down drastically. He’s on gabapentin and has had 2 different round of antibiotics. He’s eating and drinking fine and is still playful. They did mention a skin graft and possibly an amputation. But that has been put on hold since the bandages were working for a while there. I don’t really wanna go that route because if he’s not healing from a seemingly small wound like this I’m afraid that he won’t heal from something like an amputation. My thoughts are he’s not healing because he’s FiV positive and has a weakened immune system. Any help in any way would be much appreciated!

Link for pics!! https://imgur.com/a/w0LLAUW

Kitty pic! https://imgur.com/a/Vl9TeWQ

Hey guys! My cat (M8, spayed) has been having watery eyes for a while now. It’s usually only one eye acting up at a time. My roommate and I thought maybe he was allergic to something like his litter or something outside as he goes out pretty frequently. We took him to the vet and they said he has chronic dry eye. No info yet on whether a different underlying condition is causing his dry eye. The vet said we will have to give him eye drops every 6 hours. I’m a bit concerned at how doable this will be for us since we both work and are going to school, and also how that would work out while we are sleeping during the night. If anyone has had experience caring for a kitty with dry eye in this way, how did you go about it? how important is it to stay on schedule? and are there any alternative treatments we could talk to the vet about? Thanks!

TL;DR My cat has chronic dry eye and the vet says we will need to give him eye drops every six hrs. I’m looking for other cat owners who have dealt with this to share their experience and any advice they may have on caring for a kitty with chronic dry eye.