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by maine_coonz
Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:20 am
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

> doesn't mean they aren't out there Quite. Mice and voles are closely related, so if it's in voles, then it's just got to be in mice too. > Also, did you read about the cardiovascular effects? I have now. thank you. It's a good thing to know about, given that re-infections are fairly common. > are ...
by maine_coonz
Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:02 am
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

Apparently mice don't naturally get Covid, they have to genetically modify the mice to use them for studies. So that's out. Hissing/spitting: hm, hadn't thought of that, only of blood-to-blood, but of course! - air-borne transmission (duh). /Highly/ likely, they pace up and down either side of the f...
by maine_coonz
Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:47 am
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

> How do you think he was exposed? Yes, I've been wondering that too. afaik, no other cats have been in the garden recently - they can get in, but they can't get out, and they've learned it's a one-way street. My neighbours have a cat, and he and Euclid have a long-standing war going on, but the fen...
by maine_coonz
Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:34 am
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

I did a lot of trawling re Covid symptoms in cats. Just like in people, they can present completely differently. For eg, I had no temperature, no stomach upsets, only an annoying cough when I tried to speak - but not at any other time. And I had zero strength, had to rest halfway up the garden to th...
by maine_coonz
Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:22 am
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

PS: Thanks for the info re testing for hydration. The pinching the scruff thing is super-easy to do, very good to know, appreciated.
by maine_coonz
Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:18 am
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

I've spent the last week alternating between saying "goodbye" n million times, only to oscillate to "yay! you're gonna be okay!"... and then back again. I took him to my usual Vet, only to be told pretty much the same thing: dunno, maybe onset of kidney disease.... old cat... mum...
by maine_coonz
Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:26 pm
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

Quick update: Euclid and I eventually folded around 6am. We got up late at ~1pm, he ate a tiny breakfast, and then asked to be let out - which is very different from what I've been seeing. I don't know if it's the result of some food last night, but he's definitely walking a bit more perkily, not th...
by maine_coonz
Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:23 pm
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

... he wolfed it down, licked the plate clean, and begged for more.
Am I the victim of an elaborate con job??
by maine_coonz
Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:55 pm
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

Hi, I've been looking up the things you posted as you posted them, and trying to get a picture of what's going on. Potassium, BUN, GGT levels could be attributed to not eating much. Albumin: low level is a symptom of something else going on (malnutrition, infection, kidneys). Globulin (contains anti...
by maine_coonz
Fri Jun 03, 2022 4:38 pm
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Re: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

Bless your cotton socks, CarolC, and thank you. It's great to see you too, wish it wasn't such an occasion. I threw all my rules in the bin on Monday and bought an organic chicken and salmon (picky £$%&* won't eat supermarket chicken!). I've been hand-feeding him teeny bits (about half the size ...
by maine_coonz
Fri Jun 03, 2022 11:23 am
Forum: Emergency help
Topic: Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?
Replies: 22
Views: 7375

Cat won't eat, listless, but Vet can't find anything wrong; blood?

Hallo, On Fri.May.27, my 12-yr old Maine Coon boy started behaving very oddly. Over the course of a couple of days, he went from a bouncy know-it-all to a listless, apathetic shadow of his former self. He spends all day and night curled up in a ball. He isn't interested in food, which normally he wo...
by maine_coonz
Fri Apr 25, 2014 6:47 am
Forum: Incontinence & Kidney Problems
Topic: Cat: broken pelvis+tail, eating+pee+poo problems, I'm scared
Replies: 74
Views: 104226

Re: Cat: broken pelvis+tail, eating+pee+poo problems, I'm sc

Dear All,

We buried Raz this afternoon.

He had a 6.5cm dia. abdominal tumour, plus other complications. None of it was related to his tail trauma.

He will be sorely missed. He was a really, really cool cat. He would have been four this June.
by maine_coonz
Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:39 am
Forum: Other Problems
Topic: Eczema solution
Replies: 0
Views: 2864

Eczema solution

I am posting this in the hope that it might be of help to others. One of my cats Euclid has had a recurring eczema problems for the last few years, and despite numerous tests (blood, biopsies, skin scrapings, urine+stool, allergy tests, etc.) the Vets never found a cause. It would start as scabs at ...
by maine_coonz
Sun Dec 15, 2013 4:49 am
Forum: Incontinence & Kidney Problems
Topic: Cat: broken pelvis+tail, eating+pee+poo problems, I'm scared
Replies: 74
Views: 104226

Re: Cat: broken pelvis+tail, eating+pee+poo problems, I'm sc

Hey CarolC, that's really amazing news. You know, I don't really have an objective view on the usefulness (or otherwise) of Raz's "diary", so it's really nice to get positive feedback.
I trust all goes well with you and yours?
Best wishes,

Donna
by maine_coonz
Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:39 am
Forum: Incontinence & Kidney Problems
Topic: Cat: broken pelvis+tail, eating+pee+poo problems, I'm scared
Replies: 74
Views: 104226

Re: Cat: broken pelvis+tail, eating+pee+poo problems, I'm sc

A year+ later: I guess I owe many people an apology for having disappeared. In Oct. 2011 my mother (who lives in Phoenix, Arizona) was diagnosed with small-cell lung cancer. She chose to go through the whole Radiology/Chemical thing, despite the doctors warning her that her chances were "extrem...