Category: Medical

We went to visit Rosie this evening. Rosie is FIV+.  That’s something we didn’t know because she had not been tested earlier. The vet said she has been really good and well-behaved, obediently taking all her medicines and supplements.  The vet started her on Doxycycline and will add Baytril this evening. So, two antibiotics. Rosie…

It’s serious. Rosie started eating less about a month ago.  It was so gradual that we thought nothing of it.  We also thought that since she wanders and she does eat at the playground daily, maybe she wasn’t hungry. Or, maybe she found food from another house. But it was intermittent. Sometimes, she would eat. Sometimes,…

Really…we noticed a HOLE in her neck a few days ago. There were some blood stains, and that’s what drew our attention to it. When we parted her fur, oh my goodness…there was a hole in her neck! However, she didn’t seemed disturbed by it at all. It was like, “Hmm…what?” She even allowed us…

It’s quite amazing what hibiscrub and povidone iodine can do. Cow’s anal wound looks a lot much better this morning! He is only on the e-collar for the first aid and after that. Tabs saying hi. The wound looks much smaller this morning.

This evening, Ming-Yi was playing with Cow on her lap and she noticed a blood stain on her pants. Oh oh, it looked like Cow has an anal sac wound…again. He had it in Dec 2015: https://animalcare.my/2015/12/08/cows-anal-sac-story/ And Bunny had an anal wound in June 2016: https://animalcare.my/2016/06/21/bunnys-anal-wound-and-partial-blindness/ Luckily I was able to refer to the blogposts and could…

Although Cow did eat this morning, he didn’t look too well and my husband thought he felt warm too, so off we went to the vet’s. Waiting for our turn. I told the vet about the limping so that was checked first. Cow was able to jump off a stool and land firmly on both…

We took Tiger to see his regular vet yesterday to check on his skin lesions. Skin problems, as we know, are rather difficult to diagnose, especially on an FIV+ cat like Tiger. It could be due to so many things. And for Tiger’s case, it’s made more complicated by the fact that these lesions probably…

I noticed the skin lesions on 29th October 2016 and quickly took Tiger to the vet to a check-up. The vet said to clean the lesions and apply iodine. I was worried about sporotrichosis, but the vet said it didn’t look like it. After one week of applying iodine, there was no improvement, so we took…

It’s time for some updates on Tiger ever since he took off his tshirt all by himself. That happened 11 days ago and since then, we have not observed any biting of the flank or seizures. I’ve observed him grooming his whole body including the previously sensitive parts; it’s been all okay. Has the seizures…

Cleo’s hotspots were treated with iodine since 1st September. However, there was very little improvement. Then I remembered Oreo telling me about a colloidal silver product called Biosilver and he had sent me some information on it. I read up and thought it might just help with the hotspots, so I got a bottle on…

We tried supplements. We tried acupuncture and TCM. But Tiger was still throwing seizures and when he threw cluster seizures on 2nd September, I decided it’s time to try a western drug. So far, we had not resorted to drugs yet. It was just western supplements (vitamins), a natural (homeopathic) supplement and TCM. The seizures…

More than two months ago, Cleo went into a biting-OCD which resulted in bald patches on both her flanks. I took her to the vet and she was given flea treatment, but it did not resolve the OCD. Then we suspected she was allergic to something in the raw food, so we stopped that, and…