Is that your lady friend??!!
She is beautiful!
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Is that your lady friend??!!
She is beautiful!
Yes. Thanks. Its like a box of dynamite. Fun but dangerous.Quote:
Originally Posted by nutmegchoi
Fatty was pretty handsome too
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Bones has some peace now with FF gone.
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Sister with her money.
She's not impressed with hundreds.
Twenties are her favorite.
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GF buries her money. Lol. Know what I mean?
That's quite a bit of cash.
She buries? I burn! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
Yeah, E92 M3 had to go.
It was lot of fun, but started turning into a money pit.
That's good to know. I've been considering an e92.
GF thinks I'm cheap. She's probably right. She knows how to burn.
Oh man, sorry to hear that. Condolences, it's rough. We lost this one just over a month ago to diabetes. Bill, he was my main man:Quote:
Originally Posted by scottyb
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Gr8 kitty stoke folks.
Thx
Sparky:
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Gosh, you guys have some solid cats.
My cat has hyperthyroidism and I'm struggling to keep her weight up.
I lost Lucy this summer, she was 16. Lucy had hyperthyroidism and had a thyroidectomy about 4 years ago. She got really skinny but after surgery put weight back on.
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I'm sorry about Lucy...
It's so hard to lose a family/friend...
Sister is 16 and diagnosed last year.
Now she's on low dosage pills twice a day and doing a little better.
But still she wouldn't eat and gain as much I would like her to.
It's been on going struggle I much rather have than not having her around.
self-satisfied kitten:
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Same thing for our queen, Duchess Lavigna Purrsnickety Buttersnug.Quote:
Originally Posted by nutmegchoi
Oh, my... your highness!Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Sista is from the block!!
I took one of my females to the vet last week and the vet said he thought she might be hyperthyroid. She is def. not as round as she used to be and does eat quite well. He wasn't particularly worried about it but I may look into it more. She came to me as a stray so I don't know how old she is but if I had to guess i would say between 11 and 14.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
That is such a great name!
I still miss her, especially with the weather getting cold and she'd curl up in my lap. Sometimes I still expect to see her in the house. She was the boss of the pups even though they both outweighed her by 60 lbs.
I opted to have the surgery for Lucy since she was in good health at the time and just could not imagine having to give her pills twice a day. She was very difficult to pill. Luckily, the surgical option worked well for her.
Vet suggested Radioactive Iodine which costs around $2,000.
It is permanent treatment and no side effects other than "may" not be working.
The only problem is we have to send her to a facility for 10-14 days since she'll be radioactive.
They have to monitor her and her waste.
Meanwhile, we can't even go visit her so I don't know how we'll handle that.
That option is still up in the air.
Ours is from the pound; unknown age for certain, she has not been an easy pet. It took a year for her to stop swatting anyone who approached her and she still cowers and freaks despite 2 years now of never being hit or threatened.Quote:
Originally Posted by nutmegchoi
Given her personality, purrsnickety is a name of genius due to my daughter (who was 11 at the time)
But yeah, she's not gaining weight, so we have her on methimazole to stabilize the thyroid.
I've been through pet maintenance heroics and while I love the little things, it's just not worth it when it's time for them to go.
I'm making the same choice for me every day, quality over quantity.
Sister lived on the street first year then decided to move in with me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
We've been together since 2000.
She's on Felimazole 2.5mg and goes to checkups twice a year.
I got her insurance when she turned 10, so that helps a bit.
As long as she has some quality in her life, I'll do anything to provide.
Kids come up with the best names, ever! ;)
This is Rosa Lee. She loves the brushing so much that after she finishes giving the brush love bites she grabs it and brushes herself :yourock:
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Cute girl.
Scooter got no cooter.Quote:
Originally Posted by KQ
Vibes man.Quote:
Originally Posted by nutmegchoi
Our shelter rescue Jemma had to go to the vet yesterday. She needed a cleaning really badly and a few teeth had to be pulled. Turns out there was more bad teeth in her mouth than anticipated, and more teeth had to be pulled.
On top of that, the vet discovered that she was already missing six teeth, due to either abuse or prior dental work. Since we got her from a grassroots shelter, and they pulled her out of a hoarder house, we don't think someone paid for her to have teeth pulled.
Now she is missing 16 of her 32 teeth, and most of them are the useless front teeth. She's going to be on canned food for a few days until the stitches heal, and after that we will be moving her to a more permanent soft food that both her and her foster-brother Jbenjamin will eat.
Options? Soften their current hard food? When our dog is sick, we feed him a mixture of rice, ground beef, and canned pumpkin. Is something like that an option?
I think once her stitches are healed, she can even eat dry food.
Believe it or not, they are suppose to be able to eat everything even they are toothless.
http://pets.thenest.com/feed-cat-los...eeth-5554.html
so phunnyQuote:
Originally Posted by wyeaster
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This is good ole Toby, RIP. He had all of his teeth pulled due to gingavitis. I would feed him canned but he preferred dry and would gum it down every day.
Frankie being silly on the awning
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Little Kitty, aka Midnight is always right in the middle of what ever I am doing.
http://i.imgur.com/kPXrNqK.jpg
This is Ziggy, a Norwegian Forrest cat. Lost him in the divorce, miss that guy.
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And last but not least is Charlie, he likes to perch on things.
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We've got a cat with--literally--three teeth, I think. A canine and a couple of the ones up front. She has no problem eating her normal kibble--or much of anything else. As the vet explained, cats teeth are used for shearing off meat, as opposed to chewing. They swallow in big gulps. Her diet hasn't changed at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caucasian Asian
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Originally Posted by PassTheDutchie
Feline in question--you can see that her toothless situation hasn't affected her girth.
I have a friend who went through this exact same thing with a rescue cat and she is practically an expert on what to do post-op. I will email her your post and see what she says.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caucasian Asian
Also - cats are true carnivores so no veggies or rice (you can but it is not what their bodies run on). When I had a litter of kittens I just added water to dry kitten/nursing queen food and they loved it.
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Originally Posted by nutmegchoi
Yeah - as nutmeg and PTD posted they don't chew much. One of my cats brought a rather large vole to the back door the other day and basically swallowed it whole and when I see them eating kibble they maybe crunch one or two out a shoveled in mouth full.
It's so hard to know what to do. My vet offered that option as well, but no one here does it, so we would have had to travel out of state. Since she was in good health otherwise, we opted to try the surgery. She ended up having a bi-lateral thyroidectomy. I guess cats can have extra thyroid cells throughout their bodies (??) so she did not develop hypothyroidism and did great for the another 4 years. Sadly, it was an aggressive stomach tumor that was her demise.Quote:
Originally Posted by nutmegchoi
Lucy loved laying in front of the wood stove in the winter. When I lived in Boston, I had hot water heat and she would lay on this huge art deco radioator that was in my living room. I don't know how she could lay on it for so long, her belly would be so hot when she'd finally jump off.
Here you go - from my friend:
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Yeah, sort of [an expert on toothless cats]. TomCat had a very bad version of gingivitis. It was take all his teeth out or put him down. Tom still ate dry food.
This cat could have "lost" teeth to reabsorption. Basically, the body breaks down the teeth and, well, re absorbs them. I think the vet would be able to see that though. So hard to say what happened to the teeth.
Our kitty Otis has very few teeth left partly due to being removed for reabsorption and cavities. He does really well on his usual wet food and eats dry too (not softened). Really the kitty can dictate what he'll eat. Softening hard food is great. Canned food is really good for kitties overall because of the moisture content and cats don't generally get enough water from a dry food only diet. Unless they are supplementing with mice they hunt or something like that. The rice, pumpkin etc diet would be okay short term if the cat would eat it, but is deficient in a must have amino acid: taurine. If they were going to do this long term they would have to add taurine or they are going to have potentially even more tooth decay or heart failure in their cat among other problems. In their normal diet they might have a little grain from the prey they eat, but generally it can lead to things like food sensitivities . And I would feed a cat chicken before beef. Beef is linked to food sensitivities in cats and dogs. Finally cats are trained by their mommas not to chew every bite. So, They don't need to chew like people do. Cats are obligate carnivores. They positively need meat and really have no need for plants or grains that much. Except maybe catnip or grass. They like to chew grass. Dog food should not be fed to cats as it doesn't have enough taurine and has way too much carbs.
I've spent too much time at the vet with all our kitties apparently. :)
Sister too has a tumor in her belly.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2bjenny
It lays somewhere between her stomach and liver.
We believe it's non cancerous and it's actually gotten a little smaller.
For now we check her every 6 months to make sure everything is alright.
She's about to be 17.
I hope she stays with us many more years.
Love for her only grows each day pass by.
Another radiator loving cat. :)
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