Covered in Cat Hair

09/02/2025

Big News. Thank you Steve Dale for this incredible update…there may be a better treatment for HCM!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Trivium Veterinary, Dr. Stern and others have now shown that Delayed-release (DR) Rapamycin is effective to actually treat HCM, more than just addressing symptoms (which at best current meds may do). This drug will ultimately save countless cat lives, not to mention improve quality of life. And this is happening in the first place due to Dr. Stern and colleagues understanding of HCM based on what the Ricky Fund studied over man years. Still, in order to truly be effective, HCM must be diagnosed in the first place – which means getting cats to the veterinarian.

09/02/2025

The video was too long, so here’s a private moment with cheesy peeps.

29/01/2025

LOL!!!! And don’t speed! https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/norwich-man-arrested-after-driving-over-130-mph-to-see-his-cat-police/3484270/?_osource=SocialFlowFB_CTBrand&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR082QzYie9zQHnM31kL1fUIaHvYIW5GQP4oMgEVM5NbEQrIZS36u2TyF90_aem__b1FDxRwInzFEnBJFONAIQ

A Norwich man has been arrested after driving over 130 miles per hour to get home and see his cat, according to state police. Troopers said they clocked a driver going well over the speed limit on Interstate 395 South near exit 11 in Norwich early Sunday morning. Police pulled the car over for a tra...

24/01/2025

Bein’ weird, hangin’ out, takin’ crappy photos with my guy.

22/01/2025

some things never change.

21/01/2025

Nuttin’ like Niblets. 🐾

15/01/2025

Orange you glad I shared another photo of pistachio?

12/01/2025

Loafing around with and

11/01/2025

update: Red passed. He was full of cancer.
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Our friends at Doodle's Ranch & Sanctuary are in dire straits with their cat Red. If you love orange cats please consider a gift. Best way is to call the vet directly. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A1aMqdPby/?mibextid=wwXIfr 🧡🧡🧡

04/01/2025

Seven years ago today I took in a kitten who had been found inside a truck diesel engine. He was covered with grease and filthy. We were having record low temperatures and he had been so cold he got frostbite on the tip of his tail, which later fell off. he was supposed to be just another foster kitten, but it turned out. He had lung worm. It took a very long time to read him of the parasite. He was also very shy and I knew he would not show well to be adopted. OK, so just look at his face and you know why he never left here. I named him pistachio in honor of his cute mustache. These days I call him cheesy peeps. I have no idea why all I know is he loves me unconditionally as I do him. He and his sister, who I trapped a few weeks later, bring me a lot of joy and I’m very grateful for them.

28/12/2024

After 4 days in ICU Mabel is home. Annie will be keeping watch over her so she will always have company.

27/12/2024

UPDATE: after four days in the ICU Mabel is coming home this afternoon. I still don’t have a definitive diagnosis, but it looks like possible kidney infection. Mabel is not 100% but she’s well enough to come home and be cared for here. She will get subcutaneous fluids, and lots of medications to fight back this infection. I miss her cute face. I can’t wait to see her. 

I spent Christmas at the ER Vet with Mabel. She wasn’t able to urinate. Lots of tests have been done. Still no definitive diagnosis. Mabel remains in the ICU. It might be a kidney infection since her creatnine has been ticking up- not what we want. I have new meds being overnight shipped and she’s on heavy antibiotics and on an IV. She’s been catheterized twice. This afternoon, after being palpated, she peed on her own. In 24- hours they’ll recheck her bloodwork and hope the results show she’s normalizing. Vet bill is 🚀🧨 Glad to have pet insurance. Now I just need my cat back, home, on the mend.

27/12/2024

More info about H5N1 and the safety of cat food by a trusted source:

H1N1 Avian Influenza is contagious and potentially fatal to cats!

26/12/2024

It's very important that everyone who has cats be up to date on the latest info on Avian Influenza H5N1. This recall is not going to be the only one where cats have died from eating infected poultry. H5N1 does not die unless it's cooked. This is going to affect all folks who feed a raw diet (including me). They do not know transmission yet, but cats who get this die in 10 days. There is no known treatment. Numbers are low in cats right now, but this will change if it isn't stopped now. I will do more reporting in the coming days, but my pet nutritionist just sent me this update on a recall that you should know about.

A Portland-based pet food company issued a nationwide voluntary recall after a house cat in Oregon died from eating one of its products, which tested positive for bird flu.

24/12/2024

Hello. What do you want for Christmas?

23/12/2024

It’s almost Christmas. So of course I’m at the vet. This time with Mabel. Does this happen to you?

23/12/2024

Love my mug! Lena Wolek ceramics