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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...

Hi Lisa, and welcome! Wow, Punkin has been through quite a lot, bless you for giving him such a loving home for these years since his original owner died! It sounds like we may be in the last couple of innings and looking more for comfort than cure (though cure is never impossible!). But more...

Three days is reasonable, but it varies. I came home from vet school one day to find a little pile of cat puke with 3" of soggy, colorful yarn in it. I knew the piece of yarn had been about 12" (and, I thought, out of reach!). Oops. Who knew cats could digest acrylic yarn... she pooped in...

Fantastic! Crisis averted! Glad she likes the Vaseline, that will make life much easier! Bodhi is a beautiful girl, with a beautiful name and a BIG BIG spirit!

LOL what a story!!! What a cat!! You can always give Vaseline... my cat Spirit got a teaspoon (yes, really!) of Vaseline every day of her life, twice a day when she could talk me into it. She loved the stuff!! She lived to 20-1/2 so evidently it did her no harm! The paper bag was probably...

Oh yes... soaked in hydrochloric acid while being beaten by stomach muscles that would give an NFL quarterback nightmares... scrunched through the pyloric valve... pushed and pulled by peristalsis in the intestines... pretty sure she has well and truly pulverized those strips by now!