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Reba is an 11 year old domestic short hair. She has an obsessive/compulsive behavior of chewing on strings -- picking them out of quilting or hems if she can't find one dangling already. This morning I found an empty dental floss package. I used the floss last night and know that there was at...

I need some advice on feeding a cat with pancreatitis/triad disease and some degree of hepatic lipidosis. She was diagnosed 2 weeks ago after a couple of false starts. Her illness became evident 5 weeks ago (Jan 8). It started with vomiting and appetite loss. Her current treatment is eating...

I live in a semi-rural area where I enjoy lots of wildlife. Over the past 4 years that I have lived here the rabbit population has been severely diminished by the rampant virus that is affecting a large section of the country. This year the population seemed to be bouncing back, but neighbors...

Yesterday Merrily, one of my (many) cats, was slow to eat breakfast. We added a “topper” of crumbled dried turkey livers, and she ate with gusto. Then she vomited it all back up. A few hours later she was vomiting again. Then she vomited or dry heaved again in the afternoon. I withheld supper...

Lily is 2.5 years old, a small (7 lb) mostly-white calico. In mid-March I first noticed crustiness at the base of her ears (both) on the inside. I asked advice from my TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) vet who happened to visit the next day. She guessed it was allergies, based on Lily's history...