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10/13/2026

Timeline of My Cat’s Final Illness: What Could We Have Done Differently to Save Her?
Our 8-year-old cat, Momo, passed away on October 9, 2026. I’m sharing her medical timeline to understand whether there were opportunities for earlier diagnosis or treatment that might have changed the outcome.

** Friday, October 2 • Started vomiting 5–6 times and developed diarrhea. • She had a history of diarrhea while receiving oral steroids for asthma since Jun. 2026, so we initially suspected a medication-related problem.

**Monday, October 5 • Stopped eating and was taken to urgent care. • Temperature was 104°F. • Bloodwork showed low albumin (2.7) and high globulin (6.0). F***l testing and feline pancreatic lipase were normal. • Received subcutaneous fluids, anti-nausea medication (maropitant), vitamin B12, and Convenia (antibiotic injection). Mirtazapine was prescribed to stimulate appetite. • Her oral steroid treatment was discontinued in favor of inhaled fluticasone.

**Tuesday, October 6 • Developed multiple mouth lesions that appeared to be spreading. • Drooling and nausea worsened, and she remained unwilling to eat.

**Wednesday, October 7: Emergency hospitalization • Presented with a temperature of 106°F, severe drooling with blood-tinged saliva, multiple ulcers on her tongue and lips, and unequal pupils (anisocoria). • Bloodwork showed anemia, inflammatory changes, and low platelets, although platelet clumping complicated interpretation. Her albumin/globulin ratio was approximately 0.5. • Initial ultrasound screening (POCUS) showed no obvious abdominal or chest fluid. • Hospitalized for IV fluids, IV antibiotics (Unasyn), anti-nausea medications, antiviral treatment for suspected herpesvirus, pain management, and supportive care. • A nasogastric (NG) tube was placed because she could not eat.

**Thursday, October 8: Suspected FIP • Her fever temporarily improved but later returned. She remained unable to eat because of painful oral ulcers. • Eye examinations revealed right-sided uveitis and corneal changes. The ophthalmology consultation raised strong concern for dry-form FIP, with concern that neurological involvement might develop. • FIV testing was positive, although she had tested negative in 2019. • Treatment with GS-441524, an antiviral used for FIP, was started. Prednisolone acetate eye drops, pain medication, antibiotics, famciclovir, IV fluids, and NG tube feeding were continued. • Her prognosis was considered guarded. An esophagostomy feeding tube and transfer to a specialty hospital were discussed.

**Friday, October 9: Continued deterioration • She remained unable to eat independently, with persistent painful mouth ulcers and drooling. • Her fever returned, her eye abnormalities persisted, and her vision appeared potentially impaired. • A gallop heart rhythm developed overnight.

• We transferred her to another ER that could plant an E-tube to assist with her feeding in the afternoon. • Her PCR panel confirmed FIV and feline calicivirus, and the vets were highly suspicious of aplastic anemia, and her condition was not suitable for a surgery under sedation. Given how much pain she was in and how poor her prognosis was, they gently advised us to let her go.

Momo ultimately passed away later that day.

I'm struggling to understand how a seemingly healthy indoor cat deteriorated so dramatically in just a few days, and how she suddenly becomes FIV positive. I also keep wondering whether the outcome could have been different if we had acted sooner or pursued different treatments.

For those with veterinary experience or who have been through something similar:

At what point, if any, might earlier intervention have changed the outcome? I noticed since Jul. 2026, a very small wound on her nose had never healed.

Could the steroids for her asthma have contributed to her condition or worsened an underlying infection? Her asthma started in May. 2025, and we started her steroid treatment in Jun. 2026, completed 22x prednisolone and switched to dexamethasone (completed 10x then another 9x since her asthma was not suppressed), plus fluticasone. However, she would have diarrhea each time she took the pill (even 1/4 of the pill every two days).

Was there anything else we could realistically have tried to save her, or was her condition likely already beyond recovery by the time the severe symptoms appeared?

I'm not looking to blame anyone. I genuinely want to understand what happened and whether there was a window when we might have saved her.

10/10/2026

Help name our kittens - some specific requirements
Our Russian Blue suddenly passed way from illness this past summer. We were completely heartbroken and decided to get two this time 😄 We’re welcoming them into our home next week and can’t decide on names!

Front is male, back is female.

Our requirements: easy to pronounce, not too long, not too short (eg, no Ash), no obviously human names (eg, no Max). Can be English or Spanish names. Bonus if they have some meaning and pair well together.

We have on our list:
Luna and Sol
Luna and Tiger
Luna and Simba

These are out: Loki (sounds like loco in Spanish), Halo (sounds like hello).

Any ideas are greatly appreciated!

10/10/2026

The long awaited answer to the question, “Can Soup walk on his paw pads?” is finally here
After 3 surgeries, many splint changes, and several months of confinement to a playpen, Soup can indeed walk on his paw pads! The first photo was taken during his recovery (his question once again surely has to do with when his next snack will be provided!), the next two were taken recently after his recovery was completed, and the last two were taken prior to surgery.

Soup was born without most of his radius in each arm (radial hemimelia), so his ulna bent as he grew, resulting in him walking on the side of his metacarpals. He underwent a series of 3 surgeries to fuse his wrists and straighten his arms and finally, walk on his paw pads!

Note: he is an indoor cat. I occasionally take him outside under strict supervision to get updated videos of his gait for his surgeon, as the concrete provides excellent traction for him. I am a veterinarian and would never allow any of my cats to be indoor-outdoor, especially not one with congenital deformities like Soup.

10/08/2026

My overprotective cat dumped me for my daughter
I picked up my Leo as a sick stray 10 years ago and he ended up being quite protective of me. He attacked dogs (got to be a indoor cat quite fast) when they came too close, he never let me shower without supervision, swatted at people I was dating and many more things.

Until I had my daughter, and especially since she got her own room. Every night he sits awake in her bed, I've never walked in on him sleeping. Every two hours he gets up and patrols the apartment before going back to her. If she wakes up and want to come sleep in my bed he will follow and stay with us until she fall asleep and then he leaves us to go sleep.

First pic is from six months in her own room, second is the first night.

10/08/2026

What’s wrong with my cat? :(
Hi there,
I’m really worried about my 11-year-old female Norwegian Forest cat, Rosa, and would really appreciate some advice or ideas about what could be going on.
She had an accident about four years ago and needed surgery on her pelvis. She recovered from that and hasn’t seemed to have major problems from the surgery until now.

Over the past several months, I’ve noticed a number of changes:

- She is losing a significant amount of weight / has become noticeably thinner.

- She eats normally and sometimes seems to eat a lot, but despite this she is not gaining weight.

- She has started drinking much more water than she used to.

- She is urinating much more frequently

- She has had a lot of hair loss all over her body as you can see in the pictures. She is normally a long-haired cat, so the amount of fur she has lost is very noticeable.

- She is excessively grooming/cleaning herself, which seems to be contributing to the hair loss.

- Her energy level has decreased. She seems less active than she used to be.

- The hair loss and skin/fur problems seem to have progressively gotten worse

She has been to the vet numerous times. The vet has done blood-work, and the results came back perfectly fine, no hyperthyroidism or cancer. She’s also done flea treatments, so it’s not that either.
We are at the end stage, my family wants to put her down tomorrow, but I’m quite hesitant and want a second opinion. What do you think? :( I added a picture of how her fur was before she got sick.

10/07/2026

This is Charlie. Charlie has a toe tumor
This is Charlie. He is a stray that has been around for years, and we just loved him from afar as he never got too close to us. The last year or so he's been coming around more, and we've been feeding him. He let's us touch him (briefly) and rubs against our legs and hands - always very excited to see us. In the spring, we noticed a mass on his foot. We finally caught him and brought him to the vet today. It's a tumor. They x-rayed him and found no other spots on his body.

The vet told us we could put him down, or go through with amputating his toe and go through a rough journey of healing and integrating him into our household of 2 humans and 2 adult female cats (who just tolerate eachother). It was a tough discussion, but we know that he came to us for help and we want to do our best for this very special boy. So, he is currently in surgery.

We would LOVE any tips or to hear your experiences with integrating feral strays into your home.

10/07/2026

Thea has heart surgery tomorrow. Asking for all the good vibes. 💙
Meet Thea! We adopted her from a rescue on Saturday, knowing she was born with a heart defect called a PDA. It's a blood vessel that was supposed to close after birth and never did, so her heart has been working overtime her whole life.

Today she had her pre-op consult with the cardiology team at Texas A&M, and she was cleared for surgery. The resident told us it's the largest PDA he's seen in a cat, and her heart is almost twice the size it should be. Somehow she's still here, purring and judging us like nothing's wrong.

The good news is this defect is fixable. Surgery is tomorrow morning, and if it goes well she gets a real shot at normal life.

She's staying at the hospital tonight and we're headed home already missing her. If you have a second, we'd love any good vibes, prayers, or stories of your own heart or surgical warriors. I'll update after surgery! ❤️

10/06/2026

CDS Brought Me a Big Mac with Fries (troublepuffs)!Mac arrived with a storm in late July. We'd only been in our new house seven months, and he was never a cat I'd seen hanging around. He looked so soaked and downtrodden from the rain that I fed him some food, and from there begins our journey.

Big Mac is appropriately named for his size. He's a big boi with a massive head and giant biscuit paws. He loves him some food, and he's a good healthy weight. I assumed either he belonged to someone or other neighbors had been feeding him. The more I fed Mac, the more he hung around. I learned that he loves being pet, particularly head scritches. He will bulldoze your hand with that big ol' head of his for pets until you give in. If you let him long enough, he'll just melt into a puddle on his side.

I have three cats. Two girls and a boy. I let them smell my hand after petting him. The girls were totally chill about him even my shy one. They loved watching him through the glass sliding door. My boy (a bonafide mama's boy) liked him at first, but the more he smelled him on me or saw me with him, the hissier and angrier he became and he's never been a hisser. It got to the point where Mac never strayed far from my house. I'd get home from work to find him sleeping on my porch next to my Amazon packages. He somehow always knew what time I fed my cats in the morning, even on weekends. If I met him at the porch, I'd tell him to meet me in the back, and he'd dutifully go around to the backyard for dinner. He was so chill and sweet. He never reacted to other stray cats or my cats through the cracked door. Oftentimes, he'd roll onto his back and beg for belly rubs. He's unlike any stray I've ever met. One day, he showed up with a scratch on his nose, and he really wanted to come inside so badly. We'd keep him in the half bath during storms or extreme heat, but my boy Potato always lost his mind.

I really really wanted to keep Mac, but we weren't sure how my boy Potato would do. Mac wasn't fixed. I was worried about him spraying. Plus our guest room is still filled with unpacked boxes so it needed clearing out. Thankfully, I found a coworker who fell in love with him. She took him to check for a microchip, and surprisingly, he didn't have one. He stayed at my house so much that there was no way he was going home anywhere else.

My coworker took him in and is keeping his name Big Mac. He's neutered now, and we've discovered that his estimated age is just ONE YEAR OLD. He still has some growing to do! The vet informed his new mom that he had wounds around his neck, likely from fighting other cats and him not fighting back. Again, I've never met such a sweet cat like that in my life. I wish I could have kept him, but I'm so glad he's found a home with amazing parents and living the life he deserves.

tl;dr Big boi stray turned out to be an utter sweetheart in need of a home. CDS brought him to me, but I am just a waypoint to bring him to his real mom.

10/05/2026

I rescued a new cat, but he keeps spraying and peeing on things. I don't want to give up on him.
I'm really upset. About 4-ish weeks ago, we adopted a new cat, Oliver. We got him from a family member who had declawed him and generally hoarded animals.

Oliver was also once an indoor-outdoor cat. He would roam around outside and come back when he was done, but his old owners (my aunt and grandma) lived in the butt f**k of nowhere, whereas my parents and I live in a busy neighborhood.

He keeps on peeing, and today we found signs of spraying. We keep his litter box clean, he uses it like a normal cat, but he just also pees on stuff. My mom wants to put him outside and make him an outdoor cat, but I feel like that's cruel. He can't defend himself, and he's completely unfamiliar with the terrain of our neighborhood. I don't want him to get hurt, or run over, or get lost. I don't think I could handle the worry of wondering if he will come back. He is such a sweet cat.

I try to take him outdoors on a leash, and he enjoys it, but I don't think it's enough for him. I'm stressed that no one will want a middle-aged cat with borderline (non-aggressive) territorial issues, but I don't want to put him in a shelter.

I've grown really fond of him, and I don't want to lose him.

We've already taken him to the vet, and he is healthy.

EDIT: he is neutered, and he uses the litter box like normal (except for the times he doesn't)

10/04/2026

Coworker found this little dude in the middle of the busy road by our office. Meet Clark!
He gets to be our office cat for a while because he’s so young and needs fed every 4 hours. My coworkers son will be adopting him when he gets old enough.

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