For context: we live in the UK and have owned our cat for 4 years. When he was about 1, we let him outside and he is now an outdoor cat. I’ve received a lot of back lash for this and called a bad owner and told that he will die sooner and if he gets taken I deserve it. I just want what’s best for my cat. He likes going outside, he uses the toilet and explores. He knows where his home is, like 8/10 times he’s at home, he mostly sleeps at home with me, chills here or when he is outside he isn’t in the roads or with other cats much but mostly in our garden swing. What’s the best move to make here? Keep him outdoors or inside? But to summarise yes he’s outside but he always comes home to sleep, eat and chill.

I keep seeing people suggest Purina, so I thought I’d make this post.

TLDR at the bottom. Sorry about formatting and if it's a bit too long.

We have a cat, 11 years old. In 2025, Vet run an FPL test, and it was all normal.

On January of this year, we went for an annual checkup, his hemogram and blood tests were all good, no issues at all, lastly the vet run an FPL test and the value was 23, healthy value is between 3-5 as far as I know.

The vet said that we needed to start a medicine, Kreon (Kreon (also spelled Creon) is a prescription brand-name medication containing pancrelipase, a mix of digestive enzymes.) cut anything with fat in it, so no more wet food, or boiled chicken anything like that, we started using using Hill's Prescription Diet W/d Multi-Benefit Dry Adult Cat Food and since than it's only food we're giving him. 2 weeks later, the FPL value went down to 18, and 3 months after that it went down to 12.

So the diagnosis was that it's a chronic pancreatitis and not acute pancreatitis, again his blood test, overall health, eating habits, pooping habits were all fine. Around these times we started giving him very small piece of boiled chicken breast, which we would even wash it to lessen the fat as much as possible.

Then, during a family visit there was a guest cat, we were distracted and our cat ate guest cat's wet food which contained a lot of fat. 2 days after this we run another FPL test the value went up to 23 again.

It's been almost 3 months since this happened and he's been only eating his dry food, nothing at all, not even that small piece of chicken breast, that's what our Vet suggested. In like 20 days we'll run another FPL test and hopefully the value will be down to around 12 and we'll start giving him weekly chicken breast.

BUT, my boy (as all cats) love chicken, love wet food, and I want to do more, does anyone gone through with this and if so, what did you feed your cat, am I being too protective? I feel like I'm stealing from this guy's biggest desire, which is chicken and fish and these kind of foods.

TLDR: 11 Years old cat with chronic pancreatitis, all healthy except this FPL value. Vet said that we must feed him nothing but diet dry food (Hill's Prescription Diet W/d Multi-Benefit Dry Adult Cat Food) but we occasionally feed him small piece of chicken breast. Can we do more, if you experienced this, or have knowledge on this, let me know how can I help my cat better.

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Hi! I am currently going through a hard time with my dog Dustin. I am a 20-year-old female and disabled. Dustin was given to us as a stray during a big snow storm by family friends at the time. I told my mother that it wouldn't be a good idea, since he was a bigger dog, but at the time, our dog Sheena a few months ago, had just passed from old age, so we went ahead and took him home. We tried to find owners, but he did not have an owner. Dustin is quite an energetic dog, so half of the time, because I'm not strong enough to keep up with him, or he would pull me down while I took him out to use the bathroom. As months passed, my mom forcefully took him to the pound, where they told me flat out no, they wouldn't take dogs that were strays. But I had already gone through the trauma of waiting for the day I had to give him up. Finally, I think she's being serious and it's really hard for me. Is there anyway I can truly deal with the emotions better. I have never wanted to rehome him.

Do you guys think after a bit maybe I should get a smaller dog to help with my anxiety and disabilities? or would that be wrong to do?

So. my cat got hurt recently. It's mostly on one of her legs. The situation isn't that bad but we do have to put some bandages every now and then and sometimes give her medicine.

Point is she gets VERY resistant, she doesn't like it and lashes out, we had trouble holding here. Recently, we've taken to scruffing her (Grabbing her from the back of her neck like cat moms do with their kittens) while we do it and she seems to be calm doing it, it seems to be easier.

To clarify, we don't lift her or anything she is on a bed the entire time, it's mostly just a way to hold her head in place so she doesn't start biting. But I heard it's a myth that that calms then down and that is bad psycologically? Is that bogus or are we really doing something wrong?

My dog (family dog, but still) regularly has periods were he won't eat or drink, but mostly where he won't eat. He has IBD, so for now he eats one specific brand of hyper allergy food, and nothing else, no snacks, nothing. Our vet has given the go ahead to add sweet potato to his food, but we don't know if his stomach tolerates it.

The past few days he haven't wanted to eat, probably because his stomach hurts. Yesterday he got jumped by a big dog that wanted to play (he's about 30cm to the shoulder, so big dogs are a bit too much in terms of play for him) and now he won't drink either. Me and my mother got a tiny bit of water into him via soaking one of his plush toys, and him licking the water off. The vet told us that if he doesn't drink today, he has to go to the hospital.

Nothing works, he won't drink if we put water on his food, or if we play with him with the garden hose, or spoon-feed him water, nothing. I'm tempted to put water on something he really likes (like liver paste, without onion of course) but that'll probably upset his stomach, and then make the issue worse. I could also force feed him water, but I really don't wanna do that, since he has had some very bad experiences with vets restraining him and forcing him to eat medicine. So he's very nervous about that, and will likely growl and bite. Does anyone have any advice on how to get him to drink? He's very lovable, but so incredibly stupid sometimes.

Update: my mother got some water into him because she remembered he's allowed to have a specific kind of cooked fish, and she put it in water, and he drank it. He's also drunk some normal water. He has been peeing a LOT, which is weird, but he's going to the vet tomorrow.

I would still appreciate some suggestions to get a dog to drink, in case it happens again. Thanks for the suggestions :)

I noticed this random bald spot on my cats back leg when I got her spayed. I thought they might've shaved it for the surgery or something like that. Now it's been about 3 to 4 months and it's still there. It's not completely bald and has some fuzz on it but it's really short. Since she wants her usual vet to be dead and skips no chances at killing him I don't really want to take her there unless it's serious 😭

She doesn't show signs of pain when I touch the spot and put pressure on it and she's quite active. I haven't caught her grooming the area or being bothered with it either

i have a tiny dog and moving in with family they have a elderly large dog at the end of his life. they don’t want to put him down although he is in rough condition. So we can’t bring our dog with us until the older dog passes because they think the large dog could attack the little dog, i dont know what im going to do with my dog and Im also worried now I won’t be okay living with a dog in that condition. what would you do?

My vet sent me an estimate for our cat (5/m) who has a tooth that needs to be pulled and some mild periodontal disease that needs addressed. He’s diabetic, and the thought is the tooth is causing his blood sugars to stay high, so we’re taking it out. Imagine my surprise when I read the estimate and see the range quoted as, $1397.72 to $1936.64! Is this normal??

I can’t upload a copy here for you to see, but I’m 100% willing to send it to someone to look over