Cat Illness

My 19 year old cat recently started vomiting blood,and we were convinced we were saying goodbye.I'm 16,and have had my cat since i was 3,i cant remember a time when she wasnt there.Apparently,she has an ulcerated gut,so we're giving her a syringe filled with something to coat the gut and help her get better,however the vet has given her a few months,although it could even be upto a year.I've started feeling so sad about it all the time,can anyone help?
She's responded well to the syringe,& is no longer vomiting blood and appears normal again.

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Hickory was born in 2002. We adopted him from the PAWS in Petcetera on Rupert Street in Vancouver. He was 2 months old. Like every cat we’ve adopted from a shelter he had an upper respiratory infection. It was pretty bad, so my husband and I went to have it treated, but the doctor said that he should first try to fight it off on his own.

He got quite ill after that and had a blood test and a feline HIV test, both negative. He got past his illness and grew up. At 5 months we had him neutered. At age 1 year, he got his first UTI. Several years later, he’s had over a dozen UTI’s, 3 major ones in the last year. The vet bills and the special food have cost $9000.

This last year, he was hospitalized three times. His fluids have been replaced several times, had xrays, ultrasounds, more blood work, he’s on morphine, antibiotics, antispasmotics, and will be put in an anti-anxiety drug as soon as he can pee on his own. He can’t.

As a last ditch effort, the doctor fitted him with an open-ended catheter and sent him home again free of charge because this last round of vet bills cost $3000. He is now drinking freely and urinating all over the place. It’s wonderful. But we’ll see at the end of the week when the catheter comes out whether he can do it on his own.

We have been force feeding him water daily with a syringe for years now because he won’t drink. The doctor now suspects that he has always had pain urinating and wouldn’t completely evacuate his bladder. During the fluid replacement process, they found that at the very back of his bladder he has an accumulation of blood and crystals. All of the recent urine tests came back negative for crystals because of this.

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Our cat has suddenly developed what can only be described as scabbing inflamations. Originally, they appeared in the nooks of her eyes (close to her nose) and on her chin. We immediately took her to the vet. He scraped out the scabs and she began to bleed. She also had a fever. He took a culture and prescribed an antibiotic.

Now, five days later, more scabbed inflamations have appeared around her ears, rear, and several smaller ones on her body. We took her to the vet again this morning for a follow up and he basically said they are stumped. Her fever was also higher than the first visit. The culture produced no results. He prescribed prednisone and a new antibiotic.

If any one has any ideas about what this could, be please let us know. We are very worried about our much loved cat. We will also be following up with the vet after the weekend.

She is one year and three months old. She is up-to-date on all of her vaccinations and before this has been a healthy cat.
In case it helps to know, her diet/food has not been changed. Also, after the first antibiotic and ointment, the scabbing inflamtions in the nooks of her eyes cleared up.
The vet ruled out herpes and she has been tested for Feline Lukemia and HIV. Both were negative.

My bet would be that diet is the problem an that you are feeding dry foods loaded with grains

Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingrdiant a muscle meat like chicken or meal or other things?
http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Read_a_Pet_Food_Ingredient_Label
Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms
The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process them. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food but in
Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bpo_ch4a.php

Please read about cat nutrition.
http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics.html
http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.htm
http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm#Dry_Food_vs_Canned_Food.__Which_is_reall

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I got my 2-4yr old cat from a shelter 5 months ago. Only the past month she has been vomiting food a few times a week. However she's as happy as can be, and excrets the same amount of waste in the litter box each day. She also seems to be more attention seeking lately. what could be the problem?

cats are disgustingly good at hiding illness. Way too many people say exactly what you do, she's showing no signs of illness but…

Could be it is just something benign like hairballs or eating dry food too fast (if you feed dry food and she eats quickly, once the dry food hits the acid in the stomach it expands to twice it's normal size, causing the cat to then be engorged with food, and have to vomit) but it could be a number of other things.

A quick trip to the vet and an office fee of $20-30 will rule out anything more sinister and the vet can give you some suggestions as to what to do to make her more comfortable.

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