Kitty Stoke

[wyeaster]

[nutmegchoi]

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Scooter got no cooter.

[sb]

Vet suggested Radioactive Iodine which costs around $2,000.
It is permanent treatment and no side effects other than "may" not be working.
The only problem is we have to send her to a facility for 10-14 days since she'll be radioactive.
They have to monitor her and her waste.
Meanwhile, we can't even go visit her so I don't know how we'll handle that.
That option is still up in the air.

Vibes man.

[Caucasian Asian]

Our shelter rescue Jemma had to go to the vet yesterday. She needed a cleaning really badly and a few teeth had to be pulled. Turns out there was more bad teeth in her mouth than anticipated, and more teeth had to be pulled.
On top of that, the vet discovered that she was already missing six teeth, due to either abuse or prior dental work. Since we got her from a grassroots shelter, and they pulled her out of a hoarder house, we don't think someone paid for her to have teeth pulled.
Now she is missing 16 of her 32 teeth, and most of them are the useless front teeth. She's going to be on canned food for a few days until the stitches heal, and after that we will be moving her to a more permanent soft food that both her and her foster-brother Jbenjamin will eat.
Options? Soften their current hard food? When our dog is sick, we feed him a mixture of rice, ground beef, and canned pumpkin. Is something like that an option?

[nutmegchoi]

I think once her stitches are healed, she can even eat dry food.
Believe it or not, they are suppose to be able to eat everything even they are toothless.

http://pets.thenest.com/feed-cat-los...eeth-5554.html

[sb]

so phunny

[sb]

This is good ole Toby, RIP. He had all of his teeth pulled due to gingavitis. I would feed him canned but he preferred dry and would gum it down every day.

[sb]

Frankie being silly on the awning


Little Kitty, aka Midnight is always right in the middle of what ever I am doing.


This is Ziggy, a Norwegian Forrest cat. Lost him in the divorce, miss that guy.


And last but not least is Charlie, he likes to perch on things.

[PassTheDutchie]

Our shelter rescue Jemma had to go to the vet yesterday. She needed a cleaning really badly and a few teeth had to be pulled. Turns out there was more bad teeth in her mouth than anticipated, and more teeth had to be pulled.
On top of that, the vet discovered that she was already missing six teeth, due to either abuse or prior dental work. Since we got her from a grassroots shelter, and they pulled her out of a hoarder house, we don't think someone paid for her to have teeth pulled.
Now she is missing 16 of her 32 teeth, and most of them are the useless front teeth. She's going to be on canned food for a few days until the stitches heal, and after that we will be moving her to a more permanent soft food that both her and her foster-brother Jbenjamin will eat.
Options? Soften their current hard food? When our dog is sick, we feed him a mixture of rice, ground beef, and canned pumpkin. Is something like that an option?

We've got a cat with--literally--three teeth, I think. A canine and a couple of the ones up front. She has no problem eating her normal kibble--or much of anything else. As the vet explained, cats teeth are used for shearing off meat, as opposed to chewing. They swallow in big gulps. Her diet hasn't changed at all.

[PassTheDutchie]

We've got a cat with--literally--three teeth, I think. A canine and a couple of the ones up front. She has no problem eating her normal kibble--or much of anything else. As the vet explained, cats teeth are used for shearing off meat, as opposed to chewing. They swallow in big gulps. Her diet hasn't changed at all.

Feline in question--you can see that her toothless situation hasn't affected her girth.

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[KQ]

Our shelter rescue Jemma had to go to the vet yesterday. She needed a cleaning really badly and a few teeth had to be pulled. Turns out there was more bad teeth in her mouth than anticipated, and more teeth had to be pulled.
On top of that, the vet discovered that she was already missing six teeth, due to either abuse or prior dental work. Since we got her from a grassroots shelter, and they pulled her out of a hoarder house, we don't think someone paid for her to have teeth pulled.
Now she is missing 16 of her 32 teeth, and most of them are the useless front teeth. She's going to be on canned food for a few days until the stitches heal, and after that we will be moving her to a more permanent soft food that both her and her foster-brother Jbenjamin will eat.
Options? Soften their current hard food? When our dog is sick, we feed him a mixture of rice, ground beef, and canned pumpkin. Is something like that an option?

I have a friend who went through this exact same thing with a rescue cat and she is practically an expert on what to do post-op. I will email her your post and see what she says.

Also - cats are true carnivores so no veggies or rice (you can but it is not what their bodies run on). When I had a litter of kittens I just added water to dry kitten/nursing queen food and they loved it.

I think once her stitches are healed, she can even eat dry food.
Believe it or not, they are suppose to be able to eat everything even they are toothless.

http://pets.thenest.com/feed-cat-los...eeth-5554.html

Yeah - as nutmeg and PTD posted they don't chew much. One of my cats brought a rather large vole to the back door the other day and basically swallowed it whole and when I see them eating kibble they maybe crunch one or two out a shoveled in mouth full.

[2bjenny]

Vet suggested Radioactive Iodine which costs around $2,000.
It is permanent treatment and no side effects other than "may" not be working.
The only problem is we have to send her to a facility for 10-14 days since she'll be radioactive.
They have to monitor her and her waste.
Meanwhile, we can't even go visit her so I don't know how we'll handle that.
That option is still up in the air.

It's so hard to know what to do. My vet offered that option as well, but no one here does it, so we would have had to travel out of state. Since she was in good health otherwise, we opted to try the surgery. She ended up having a bi-lateral thyroidectomy. I guess cats can have extra thyroid cells throughout their bodies (??) so she did not develop hypothyroidism and did great for the another 4 years. Sadly, it was an aggressive stomach tumor that was her demise.

Lucy loved laying in front of the wood stove in the winter. When I lived in Boston, I had hot water heat and she would lay on this huge art deco radioator that was in my living room. I don't know how she could lay on it for so long, her belly would be so hot when she'd finally jump off.

[KQ]

Here you go - from my friend:

Yeah, sort of [an expert on toothless cats]. TomCat had a very bad version of gingivitis. It was take all his teeth out or put him down. Tom still ate dry food.

This cat could have "lost" teeth to reabsorption. Basically, the body breaks down the teeth and, well, re absorbs them. I think the vet would be able to see that though. So hard to say what happened to the teeth.

Our kitty Otis has very few teeth left partly due to being removed for reabsorption and cavities. He does really well on his usual wet food and eats dry too (not softened). Really the kitty can dictate what he'll eat. Softening hard food is great. Canned food is really good for kitties overall because of the moisture content and cats don't generally get enough water from a dry food only diet. Unless they are supplementing with mice they hunt or something like that. The rice, pumpkin etc diet would be okay short term if the cat would eat it, but is deficient in a must have amino acid: taurine. If they were going to do this long term they would have to add taurine or they are going to have potentially even more tooth decay or heart failure in their cat among other problems. In their normal diet they might have a little grain from the prey they eat, but generally it can lead to things like food sensitivities . And I would feed a cat chicken before beef. Beef is linked to food sensitivities in cats and dogs. Finally cats are trained by their mommas not to chew every bite. So, They don't need to chew like people do. Cats are obligate carnivores. They positively need meat and really have no need for plants or grains that much. Except maybe catnip or grass. They like to chew grass. Dog food should not be fed to cats as it doesn't have enough taurine and has way too much carbs.

I've spent too much time at the vet with all our kitties apparently.

[nutmegchoi]

It's so hard to know what to do. My vet offered that option as well, but no one here does it, so we would have had to travel out of state. Since she was in good health otherwise, we opted to try the surgery. She ended up having a bi-lateral thyroidectomy. I guess cats can have extra thyroid cells throughout their bodies (??) so she did not develop hypothyroidism and did great for the another 4 years. Sadly, it was an aggressive stomach tumor that was her demise.

Lucy loved laying in front of the wood stove in the winter. When I lived in Boston, I had hot water heat and she would lay on this huge art deco radioator that was in my living room. I don't know how she could lay on it for so long, her belly would be so hot when she'd finally jump off.

Sister too has a tumor in her belly.
It lays somewhere between her stomach and liver.
We believe it's non cancerous and it's actually gotten a little smaller.
For now we check her every 6 months to make sure everything is alright.
She's about to be 17.
I hope she stays with us many more years.
Love for her only grows each day pass by.

Another radiator loving cat.

[KQ]

Crazy barn kittens! It's not like they don't have other bigger beds that would accommodate all three with more leg room:

[SmokinRox]

Lot of great pussy in this thread.


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[4matic]

Bones won't come inside so he stays in his house in the garage attic. He doesn't like being contained.

Something not right with him either. Maybe ate a mouse.

[nutmegchoi]

Bones won't come inside so he stays in his house in the garage attic. He doesn't like being contained.

Something not right with him either. Maybe ate a mouse.

You live with a wild animal!!!

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Sutter

[nutmegchoi]

Oh, my god.
Surfer is a gorgeous cat!!

[digitaldeath]

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[digitaldeath]

Oh, my god.
Surfer is a gorgeous cat!!

Meh, I've seen cuter

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[japanada]

Any suggestions or experience for a kitty for someone who generally has allergies towards them? My GF gets all itchy and runny eyed around them usually