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The dark area in her stomach looks suspiciously like a wad of paper that has been bunched up by the muscular stomach. It is way too big to fit through the pyloric valve. This has nothing to do with gastric emptying time. She is digesting food (that is getting past the wad), and pooping, so...

Hi Joanne, darn that silly Bodhi anyway... she is a pistol! Ultrasound is excellent for soft tissue, much more accurate than x-ray. Since she is feeling fine but not eating, that suggests the paper may still be in her stomach, so now would be a good time to get her checked out. Especially...

Meat can be frozen twice and still be safe, so you're all good!

BTW Anna, be sure to forgive yourself! I had a very similar thing happen to my cat with him on the leash. I took 2 steps away to grab something (what could POSSIBLY go wrong??), there was a noise, he freaked, the screen door slammed, he flew in 7 directions at once... instant disaster! He was...

Also Rescue Remedy if you have it. Put a drop in food/water, and spritz it around the house to take the "bad juju" out of the air! You might do a little EFT for her, too. You can do it without touching her. EFT Tapping for Animals | Little Big Cat - Dr. Jean Hofve

So glad the kitten is doing well! At 4 weeks she can have canned kitten food, but not so much the baby food because it has no calcium or other important nutrients a little one needs. Adding formula is fine, too. She can eat as much as she wants. Feed her up! 🥰 Skip the bath for now, you can...

Hi, thanks so much for rescuing this baby! Dr. Jeff gave you some good sites for info. A 2 or 3 week old kitten needs to be fed at least every 4 hours around the clock. Yes, set your alarm, sorry! Kitten formula is best up to about age 3 weeks, when they can start to eat solid food. Try to can...

It's nice to have them *willing* to let you trim them. The habit will definitely come in handy later.

Aha!! Yeah, not sure that is a balanced diet even for dogs. Smalls is really good. Ships right to your door.

BalanceIt doesn't account for raw meat, but cooked meat has the exact same nutrition, less a little moisture. So you don't have to do much in the way of calculating to make that substitution. Just "pretend" the meat is cooked when working with the recipe. ;) There aren't really any "low...

Oh no, I am so sad to hear that, Barbara. Bless you for letting Misty go, hard as it is. She is happy and free and dancing in the sunlight now!

No, it’s not from that… stones take years to develop. More likely a chronic overage of calcium. Vit C is not necessary but it won’t hurt anything. I am a little concerned and the diet, which looks like it may actually be dog food. That’s not appropriate for cats. They have much narrower...

Hi, DeAnna, and welcome! A few thoughts for you... First, phosphorus cannot be "leached out" of food by any means. That's not a thing, and it makes me question whatever else that vet says. Maybe everything else is perfectly correct, but that is such a basic misunderstanding of nutrition and...

Hi Pam, Did the vet do any bloodwork by chance? (Though it would be better to get blood and urine at the same time and that may have been the thought.) In older cats, I find that there is often involvement of a kidney stone, usually calcium oxalate, and little bitty pieces of it flake off and...

If she is truly constipated, that is, straining in the box without producing, feeling uncomfortable, touchy about the belly, then a dose of Vaseline is the quickest way to move the stool out. But as Dr. Jeff pointed out, this may be just the "not much in, not much out" syndrome happening here...

Hi and Welcome! Well if Evy isn't the cutest little fluffball ever! Thanks for taking such good care of her after all her traumas! Just a few thoughts... Honest Kitchen is already very high in carbohydrate, and you are adding much more without balancing with more protein. It's a great food...

You have to wait 6 months before testing, which is how long it takes for the worms to mature and reproduce.

Hi Anna! Thanks for helping your friend out! Does she know what the kitten has been fed before? Usually it's best to stick to the same thing and gradually transition to whatever diet she wants to use. I certainly recommend a balanced raw diet (a commercial raw diet made for all life stages will...

Oh Ann, I'm so sorry to hear of Buddy's passing. 😿 But what a blessing that you understood his message of not taking the meds, and he went gently with you by his side. It is a tremendous gift to be able to let our beautiful pets transition so easily. Thank you for being such a loving family for...

Hi, yes I was thinking an animal communicator could talk to him about further treatment. The difference is that Nate had a solid tumor and the primary was removed; Punkin's is diffuse. Those forms behave differently. Personally I tend to err on the side of not putting them through too much...