Would Some Have a Chat With My Cat - Please!!
09-20-2010, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by elizabeth
Help. Bartholomew is 4 months old and only weighs 2 pounds. He has had the feline lukemia test, had the shots he needs, extensive blood work, stool samples sent to a special lab to check for parasites. change his food to different organic foods every week, xray of his belly--and still no diagnoses. He is starving all the time. When I feed him and his sister, he runs between her bowl and Penelupe's bowl and gulps his food down. Within three to five minutes he poops it all out. It is extremely runny and then it gets on him, so then I have to bathe him. We keep the litter box very clean. I sit and watch him eat and wait until he loses it and clean his box. When he is not eating, I check the box every half hour to make sure it is clean. At night I get up every 3 hours to check the litter box and clean it if I need to and give Bartholomew another bath. Our vet is going to a convention this weekend and said he would discuss his case at one of the senimars. He is checking with a specialist tomorrow. Does anyone have any suggestions? known of a case like this? (please don't tell me if you know a kitten that has died from this)
Elizabeth
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09-20-2010, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Lacelady
Originally Posted by lalaland
Okay, they are nocturnal in their hunting habits, I get that, but would someone please tell Buddy that jumping on the bed at 4:30 am with that lizard you were lucky enough to catch, that is still alive and kicking, is not acceptable!!!!
Even the dog is complaining since the last lizard crawled under her, while she was peacefully sleeping, to get away from the cat.
And I don't appreciate having to get up and take a squirming, obviously ticked off, lizard outside to somewhere safe.
And yes, this is a frequent occurrence. I guess I should be grateful it's only lizards???
Even the dog is complaining since the last lizard crawled under her, while she was peacefully sleeping, to get away from the cat.
And I don't appreciate having to get up and take a squirming, obviously ticked off, lizard outside to somewhere safe.
And yes, this is a frequent occurrence. I guess I should be grateful it's only lizards???
09-20-2010, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by lalaland
Okay, they are nocturnal in their hunting habits, I get that, but would someone please tell Buddy that jumping on the bed at 4:30 am with that lizard you were lucky enough to catch, that is still alive and kicking, is not acceptable!!!!
Even the dog is complaining since the last lizard crawled under her, while she was peacefully sleeping, to get away from the cat.
And I don't appreciate having to get up and take a squirming, obviously ticked off, lizard outside to somewhere safe.
And yes, this is a frequent occurrence. I guess I should be grateful it's only lizards???
Even the dog is complaining since the last lizard crawled under her, while she was peacefully sleeping, to get away from the cat.
And I don't appreciate having to get up and take a squirming, obviously ticked off, lizard outside to somewhere safe.
And yes, this is a frequent occurrence. I guess I should be grateful it's only lizards???
Does your cat meow as it brings it in to you?
I now wake up when I hear that certain meow and know she is bringing home a treasure. What finally happened is my younger male has also learned that meow and jumps up and catches whatever it is. I tell him to take it outside and he does!!
09-20-2010, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by ajonkarl
Originally Posted by lalaland
Okay, they are nocturnal in their hunting habits, I get that, but would someone please tell Buddy that jumping on the bed at 4:30 am with that lizard you were lucky enough to catch, that is still alive and kicking, is not acceptable!!!!
Even the dog is complaining since the last lizard crawled under her, while she was peacefully sleeping, to get away from the cat.
And I don't appreciate having to get up and take a squirming, obviously ticked off, lizard outside to somewhere safe.
And yes, this is a frequent occurrence. I guess I should be grateful it's only lizards???
Even the dog is complaining since the last lizard crawled under her, while she was peacefully sleeping, to get away from the cat.
And I don't appreciate having to get up and take a squirming, obviously ticked off, lizard outside to somewhere safe.
And yes, this is a frequent occurrence. I guess I should be grateful it's only lizards???
Does your cat meow as it brings it in to you?
I now wake up when I hear that certain meow and know she is bringing home a treasure. What finally happened is my younger male has also learned that meow and jumps up and catches whatever it is. I tell him to take it outside and he does!!
09-20-2010, 10:56 PM
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Yep try a very large cat jumping on your tummy while you are sleeping with rat rear end hanging out of the mouth with blood gushing. And yes that really did happen to me. The front end of the rat must have been inside the stomach already.
09-20-2010, 11:10 PM
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Buddy's predecessor was Frisbee, all male, all hunter. We back up to the water control and one night I found a huge crawdad in my living room. I woke my DH up and told him I thought we had a lobster in our living room! Then one night he brought in a sandpiper, do you know how long their legs are? I'm still puzzling over how he managed to get that one in the house. Oh, and these were all alive and well. While we were trying to catch them, Frisbee lost interest and headed back outside.
09-21-2010, 08:56 AM
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we have had Bartholomew for tapeworm and he is on those capsuls. He is drinking plenty of water. This baby is so hungry that to get him to take the capsule, he drinks it before I can get it on his food. We give it to him with a syringe because his sister won't eat the food.
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