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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this?
By: betty Date: August 29, 2024, 10:04 am
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The best way we found to get our cat into the carrier was to put
the carrier on end so the opening is at the top, and lower the
cat into it.
I hope the vet has a solution for you.
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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this?
By: sandisadie Date: August 29, 2024, 10:43 am
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Putting the carrier on end does work. We also find that opening
the carrier and sitting it on the floor so that the cat can be
around it for a day or so before trying to put him in seems to
help.
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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this?
By: shadowfox79 Date: August 30, 2024, 1:52 am
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We do use the carrier-on-end trick - the trouble is that the
moment you pick up Spot, he turns into a whirlwind of claws and
fangs. Plus as soon as he sees the carrier he runs a mile, and
since we have a fairly open plan house it's going to be
difficult to get him behind a closed door.
However, that will be DH's job. I'll be working all afternoon.
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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this?
By: sandisadie Date: August 30, 2024, 11:58 am
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Here's another thing we used on our 16 year old cat. We got him
a thunder shirt. They make them for cats and dogs. He became
much calmer with it on and liked having it on. I don't know if
that would work for your cat, but it's something to explore.
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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this?
By: Hmmm Date: September 3, 2024, 10:58 am
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If you google it, you'll be stunned how often this seems to
occur. Our senior cat also started this. Vet found no physical
reason. We moved the litter box, we switched to a different
style of box, added a second box, tried out different litters,
changed food, everything the vet could suggest.
This cat has never been the type of like to "cover" his
business. When he pees, he leaves his two front legs out of the
litter box. I joked with the vet that he just didn't want to go
to the trouble of getting into the box to cover. The vet said
based on that behavior it could be arthritis but he doesn't
exhibit any other arthritic behavior during the exam and the vet
didn't see the need to put the cat through imaging to test.
Now we just "police" his favorite places to poop every day. At
least he does it on the hardwoods and not the carpet areas.
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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this? Update
By: shadowfox79 Date: September 4, 2024, 1:40 am
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I took him to the vet yesterday.
After giving him a good check over, the vet came up with a
couple of possibilities. She noticed his bowel had thickened,
which could be a number of things (worst case cancer, but plenty
of other options) and suggested I book him in for a senior
health check to try and rule some things out, which I will be
calling to do today.
The other option is dementia. I had mentioned he has got a lot
needier recently - he spends the entire day sitting either on my
lap or on my desk as I work now, whereas he never did before -
and she thought that would tie in with it. Her suggestion in
that instance is to put a litterbox in front of the sink in the
hope that will reset things.
They don't offer payment plans, so DH and I are going to have to
figure something out.
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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this? Update
By: sandisadie Date: September 6, 2024, 6:11 pm
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Thanks for the update. I'll be hoping for a good outcome for
your furry family member.
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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this? Update
By: shadowfox79 Date: September 14, 2024, 2:09 am
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They've now booked Spot in for an ultrasound. Apparently most of
the blood were normal but there were some slightly elevated
scores around the liver and gut that they want to check out.
In the meantime we've put an extra tray down in front of the
sink. Half the time he uses it (for both ways) and the other
half he goes next to it. I have no idea.
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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this? Update
By: sandisadie Date: September 14, 2024, 10:56 am
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Sounds like he's trying to do the right thing though. Poor
kittie!
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Re: Has anyone any ideas about this? Update
By: shadowfox79 Date: October 3, 2024, 1:01 am
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Ultrasound is done.
They said he either has an irritable bowel condition or he has
lymphoma. We gave consent for them to do a biopsy and are
waiting on the results.
The vet said that steroids are the recommended treatment in
either scenario. Chemotherapy would be prohibitively expensive.
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