HouseOfPurrfection

Ever since Saturday I’ve delighted in watching Zoe sleep in her customary position, rolled up in a ball like an armadillo protecting itself, washing her face at her leisure, scratching whenever she gets an itch, and once again lavishing attention on her foster kittens, Preacher, Muli, and Brava. Yes, the debilitating cone is off! Saturday [...]

Zoe has been an exemplary patient the past week she’s worn a protective cone following dental and eye surgery. It was very daunting hearing that she had to wear a cone for two weeks to allow the stitches under her eyes to heal, but she’s proven a very patient and good kitty, and I’m impressed [...]

As with every dental surgery, our vet sends us home with pictures that were taken pre-surgery of our cat’s teeth. Before Zoe’s dental surgery, it wasn’t known if she needed any extractions, but as the pictures show, she needed to have three teeth taken out. The rotten odor that I noticed emanating from her mouth [...]

Zoe has been a model patient since her dental and Entropion surgeries last Friday. Despite having to wear a dreaded, intrusive, and embarrassing cone for the next two weeks, yes two weeks, she’s been a real trooper the past couple of days. She’s got a row of tiny stitches underneath each eye, so it’s important [...]

Sundays, Treat Day, have become an ordeal for Tiny Pea. Before we serve up the canned cat food to all the cats, I put her in the bathroom and shut the door. Since figuring out that regular canned cat food, Fancy Feast, causes her Interstitial Cystitis to flare up, she can’t have it any more. [...]

It’s been amazing watching Tiny Pea recover from her latest flare up from Interstitial Cystitis. After our vet ruled out kidney stones with a quick ultrasound, stress, and even the Interstitial Cystitis, he believed that it was a food-related problem. He wanted me to stop feeding Pea anything other than the urinary tract healthy food [...]

I’ve been finding Omar at the feeding stations more often, and he hasn’t been eating as much of the canned food during the week. Yes, I’m still giving him a bit of the canned cat food every day, so it’s been very slow getting him back to eating exclusively dry cat food. But, it’s progress. [...]

Since Tiny Pea has been taking the medicine, Dasuquin, for a possible Interstitial Cystitis condition, she’s been feeling great. How can I tell? She’s more social. She isn’t hiding up on her kitchen cabinet shelf, spending time by herself. Second, I’ve noticed that she isn’t quite as nasty towards the other cats. Of course, she [...]

Our vet clinic called with the results of Tiny Pea’s urinalysis results; she doesn’t have a urinary tract infection. I’m both happy and surprised. Therefore, she could have a couple other medical conditions that account for the blood in her urine: kidney stones or a condition known as Interstitial Cystitis where the lining of the [...]

Tiny Pea is doing very well. Our vet called and gave me the stellar results of the blood panel; her kidney and liver functions are perfect. The test results showed no abnormalities, so there’s only the urinary tract infection to worry about now. Tuesday the vet clinic should have the results of the cultures taken [...]