Bladder stone experiences?
Photo id: three jagged looking stones in a tube, roughly the size of peas.
Sorry for formatting, I'm on mobile.
My cat recently had stones removed from her bladder and they came back id'd as struvite stones. I'm no vet but struvite stones seem to always look smooth, while calcium ones have these bumps. I do trust the vet, but I know lab results can get mixed up so i was wondering if anyone has had similar looking struvite stones removed?
Also I'm going to start her on the rx diet asap, has anyone had good luck with the hills c/d diet? Have your cats stones come back? Any help/advice/experience is appreciated.
My cat ran away
My mom does daycare and my little boy named Flynn likes to run away when he goes outside with the kids, but he usually comes back the next morning if he ever does run off. I have told my mom many times that he shouldent go outside cause I'm scared when he runs off he might get hurt or taken by another person. My mom said that she is going to call animal shelters today, but I'm very worried that I'll never see him again
The picture is from when he was a little boy
What's wrong with my cats tail?
About 8 months ago, my cats tail was dragging, and she'd bite it whenever it'd twitched or attempted to move it. I took her to the vet ER, they did an X-ray and said that nothing was wrong, even sent me the pictures, they just recommended to leave a cone on her and give her some of the pain meds they sent with me.
2 Months after, she seemed fined but the tail bitting started again and bit it to the bone, had to take her to the ER again and get it amputated, again they couldn't find the cause of her tail pain and said it was most likely some sort of trauma [assuming something fell or stepped on her tail].
Ever since that, she seemed to be doing perfectly fine and didn't paid any attention to her little tail nub, until now I caught her bitting into and seeing it twitch like how it used to. What's wrong with her little tail?
I'm making a vet appointment for next week, for now I'm keeping a cone on her and giving her some of the medication I had left
This is Old Man Otis. Otis will not eat wet food.
This Otis. He is a recently adopted, likely senior street cat. I want to give him the best life possible for however many years he has left, but he’s driving me crazy with his food preferences. He loves dry kitten food (mainly one brand) and gets indignant if I don’t also offer him wet food - wet food he takes two bites of and then ignores. I’ve tried different textures, brands, flavors, feeding times, bowls, you name it - this cat just wants dry food. If I had a ton of extra money I wouldn’t care that he wastes it but I don’t and I’m also worried he’s not getting enough hydration through his food.
I am just an anxious first time cat mom and Otis is really very sweet and dopey and I just want my child to eat his vegetables. Does anyone have any suggestions?