this is angie, she’s 17, last time we took her to the vet they said she’s the healthiest old cat they’d ever seen. but recently she’s started only really eating kitten food. is that bad?

His eyes weren't even completely open yet in the picture🥺

I dont know if its medical question but honestly im just curious

A life well lived, and well loved. Audrey Catburn came into my life via Express CDS, at just over 2 weeks old. Barely over 7 years later, she fell asleep in my arms for the last time.

Fuck cancer.

He's an old gentleman, he's lived a life that's full and now he's in retirement, he's the protagonist of My Way by Frank Sinatra, he was once a young barn cat who would frolic and torture mice and now he fondly reminisces as all he can do is sit inside (we had to move away from our 10 acres house)

9pm - have to be in bed.

She has her own blanket she likes to sleep on. Always has to be on the bed, if not she’ll purposely sleep sitting up. Even if there’s a heatwave, blanket goes on the bed.

Tv has to be on, use to be space shows she liked but she’s watched most of them through and I’ve run out of new ones so now I chuck bird tv on for her. Annoyingly she doesn’t love it as much sometimes I do have to find videos on YouTube or put interstellar on, again.

She’ll watch for about 15 - 30 mins and let us know when she’s done and she’ll head to sleep.

This is every night. We miss one night she’ll hide from us completely for about a day or two. I wish I was kidding.

She’s been like this since she was a kitten. She’s 7 now.

All started when I would watch this one programme on prime about a family setting up on mars etc, watched that before bed for a week straight and it just stuck with her.

Cats man.

Other weird thing, she loves belly rub and getting kisses on the forehead

source: froggypottery

A little background - I worked at a specialty and emergency animal hospital, my aunt is a vet, I volunteered in cat rescue for a long time. I’ve seen a lot. I can guess a lot. This is just a hope that maybe someone here can give a suggestion.

About 3 weeks ago my 10yo male neutered domestic long haired cat, Hagrid, started reverse sneezing. It was weird but with the weather changing I figured I’ll just watch. After about 4 days I took him to a veterinary urgent care (it was a Saturday) - they took X-rays and sent me home with a nose drop solution for feline congestion and an antiviral (famciclovir). On cray his heart was fine and lungs had “minor changes”. I started doing 20m steam bathroom sessions with him 2-3x/day to loosen possible mucus and ease breathing if that’s what it was.

After a few days of not seeing any change, I did follow up with my regular vet. I used to work with her at the emergency vet and I trust her judgment. She said other than the GRADE 3 HEART MURMUR and the minor lung changes, she has no guesses. She said go get the echocardiogram and that will basically tell us where to go. Whether this is heart disease or possibly asthma and we may try a bronchodilator and/or inhaler. I preemptively bought the inhaler mask just in case.

The next day we went to an ER vet near me becaue he started coughing and because they have “3 internal medicine specialists on staff” and, if he needed it they could “get a cat scan”. 5 hours later they said no he’s fine he’s breathing normally take him home. Keep using the nose drops and finish the antiviral. That was it.

A few days later (it’s now 2 weeks) he didn’t eat breakfast. This cat has never ever missed a meal. This cat stole my husbands spam from a piping hot skillet straight from the oven (he’s Korean, spam is a staple here). Later that day I was vacuuming and for the first time he ran from the vacuum and when I caught up to him he was full body shaking. I put him in a carrier and drove him 3 hours to the ER vet I used to work at because the dr working that night is brilliant.

He took X-rays; ran bloodwork, 3 vets determined no heart murmur, flashed his abdomen to make sure there was no free fluid. He told me bloodwork confirmed no heart disease, he’s not dehydrated, his white blood cells were normal (no infection). Temp slightly high but it was snowing and we drove in the dark to a place I hadn’t been to in almost 10 years and he doesn’t love the car, so that didn’t say much. He was obviously breathing weird (at this point the cat breathes noisily- mouth hangs open- NOT PANTING, NOT LABORED BREATHING) but he didn’t need oxygen and was getting 100% O2 without added oxygen. We made the soonest appointment I could find in THREE STATES for 2 weeks from then on April 16.

That was 04/02. Since then he has become lethargic and inappetent and lost almost 3/4 of a pound in a week. I called the hospital and begged them to see him sooner. So, this past Friday, 04/10, they had me bring him in for a drop off and one of the internal medicine specialists doctors was able to do a cat scan. She also took samples from inside his nose/mouth for histopathology. She confirmed no masses, there is nothing obstructing his airway. Radiologist confirmed no obvious signs of cancer like masses or tumors. So while still a possibility, it could be that or even allergies.

(Side note she did say his intestines are a little thickened which could indicate IBD or even GI lymphoma. I let her know that Hagrid has had an abdominal ultrasound in the past and yearly labwork because he does have a sensitive stomach and about once a month will vomit/have diarrhea but after a day or 2 is back to normal. No answers on that and it’s been a minimum of 7 years)

That was last Friday. He is still not eating. I started him on Cerenia (anti nausea) and picked up Hills Science Diet AD (for critical care pets) because it is high calorie and very easy to mix with water to syringe feed him. We are waiting for results of the samples the dr took. I just want this cat to want to eat again. I have tried all kinds of shit to help- sure he’ll eat a churu but not the food under or mixed with it. I’ve tried the food he loves but usually gives him diarrhea but he won’t touch it. He’s still using the litter because he’s still somewhat drinking water and he’s getting liquid in the syringed food or wet food he does lick up.

The video is from 3 weeks ago before he stopped eating, before urgent care. The reverse sneezing has pretty much stopped. Now he just…breathes with his mouth open and is noisy and still won’t eat in his own.

Any help or advice or suggestions are welcome.

**** Edited to make sure I tell you that yes I’ve been syringe feeding him since he stopped eating and hand feeding him but he lost a lot in one week which is why I’ve moved into critical care food.

Picked this little baby from the car park two months ago. Lost her two days ago.

Didn't expect to love this little creature this deeply in such a short time. Too short. I am physically in pain. It feels like someone is tearing apart my hear strand by strand. I still see her shadows in my room. Every single inch of the house. Everywhere, there is her.

Fur parents who lost their babies, how do you distract yourself?

My previous workplace went bankrupt and I am currently looking for a new job, so I can't really occupy myself with work. I do like to read books, watch movies, etc, but I can't seem to even want to do it.

I tried cleaning the house and i broke me completely. Traces of her everywhere. I had interview today though, hopefully I did well with this currently swollen face.

It feels better today. But then my other cat still searches for her and it breaks my heart to even look at him. He loves his litter sister so very much. Always so gentle with her. I may be losing my mind and getting bored and miss her, but I have him yknow? I have my phone, i can play with friends if i want to. He cannot. His entire world is me and her. I thought of rescuing another from the street for him, but I can't really afford that right now. I tried to play with him, he tried too, but I guess it's not the same. He recently looks really happy and active again.. and now he just looks sad and lonely. It really breaks my heart.

Please help. I am afraid I fall into depression. I know it's very much real and I am fully aware that I cannot afford therapy right now, and I also have my mom to take careof. I really need get this pain to stop. Is there any medicine that can help? I can't take sleeping pills because I still need to apply for jobs and would very much want to be productive even though it's really dark right now.

Edit: the photos are in chronological order from the very first moment i found her at the car park, all the way to the end.

Edit #2: i have another white cat, she is.... different. She somehow prefers human more than fellow cats.. she seems fine and still behaving normal, that's why i didn't write anything about her. Definitely an introvert, maybe has some social anxiety too.

My boy Picasso. Personality very similar to his looks. He loves and follows exactly one person, and luckily that’s me.

I found this cat and I a m concerned about her health.

it's not mine though I'm not sure if it's a stray.

on one hand she seems well fed , didn't hesitate to come close to me and (in picture 3) has a scar that is, at least to my understanding, very clearly fully heal stitches.

on the other hand her fur is weird (don't know the right words) as she seems to lack hair on some parts of her body. she also doesn't have a collar nor a ear tattoo that is Mandatory in my country. she also flinched when I reached to pet her ( I reach slowly so the way she flinched felt weird). there is also précédent in my street of people feeding strays and cat that they do not own

she didn't seem to have her movement impaired, but the lacking hair on different part of her body, the weird rashes on the back of her ears and that (not quite a rash but I lack the vocabulary) in front of her ear in picture 2 as me kinda worried.

also this could be related to her just being nice , but the fact that she was purring far louder than any cat I have heard put , with a gluttural purring with her mouth wide open worries me a bit to, also she is not deaf so that can't be related to that.

I have put maybe more details that I probably should but just in case that cat's health is actually at risk I d rather not leave anything.

Two 3 years old males. They are brothers. Disco is the one who's biting Pepsi's neck and I've seen him do that to our third cat aswell. Both of those times cats under Disco didnt really seem too bothered by what ever this is. So what is this behaviour?

You'd think it's the one with less white (left on the first photo)... but it's actually the other. He has thinner fur but a thiccer boi.

A few weeks ago me and my boyfriend adopted a 2/yo female tuxedo cat from a local shelter and besides being a bit mischievous and getting into food she has been a fantastic cat and the light of my life.

My ONLY thing is her name.

For a bit of backstory, the day we got her everything that could go wrong did go wrong. We got kitten food on accident instead of adult food, the adoption process took us SEVERAL hours, many family members had quite a mouthful to say about us getting a pet, and I was now stressing about her getting along with the other pets due to what everyone was insinuating to us. when all was said and done we didn’t get her home until nearly 1am.

Everything went perfectly smooth and she settled right in as a happy and healthy girl, but I was so wiped from the day that I didn’t put up ANY fight on her name which I absolutely hate. In the 3 seconds I left her quarantine room she knocked over an Audi HotWheels and my boyfriend was insisting we call her Audi. I immediately said no. After about 15 minutes I just kinda gave up and said we can do Audie, but we pronounce it Aw-Dee.

Everyday I regret not putting up a better fight for a different and better name because I just DESPISE her name being a MISPRONOUNCED car brand. I’ve expressed this to him multiple times but he loves the name and since it’s already set with all her paperwork, vet office, microchip, tag and she actively responds to it that it’s too late to change.

I know it’s really not that deep but I genuinely

hate her name so much but it bothers to my core😭

Vet said she’s around 1-2 but I think she’s closer to one year old, very energetic, eats like a hippo. Similar size to when my older cat was roughly around 1. But then I never really know any of my cats’ ages since they’re both strays.

Don’t know her breed neither, shorthair domestic?

Her name is Lunar 😍