morning, g´day, afternoon night or just hello all.

Hello. I was beginning to think everyone had been banned while I was asleep.

morning, g´day, afternoon night or just hello all.

Hello. I was beginning to think everyone had been banned while I was asleep.

Yup its quiet in here.
Was at unofficial cafe to sign up.

morning, g´day, afternoon night or just hello all.

Hello. I was beginning to think everyone had been banned while I was asleep.

Yup its quiet in here.
Was at unofficial cafe to sign up.

I saw you there. It's quiet there too.

morning, g´day, afternoon night or just hello all.

Hello. I was beginning to think everyone had been banned while I was asleep.

Yup its quiet in here.
Was at unofficial cafe to sign up.

I saw you there. It's quiet there too.

Yes it is.

Better get up and feed the animals, including out failing 19 year old black and white cat.

She will "stay in" today as her fur is getting thin, she has lost all fat (really boney now) and is going bald on her head. Must feel the cold badly now?

Hi John, sorry to hear about the elderly puss. There was a thread on this some time ago, and many of us have been there before. You have my best wishes.

Better get up and feed the animals, including out failing 19 year old black and white cat.

She will "stay in" today as her fur is getting thin, she has lost all fat (really boney now) and is going bald on her head. Must feel the cold badly now?

Hi John, sorry to hear about the elderly puss. There was a thread on this some time ago, and many of us have been there before. You have my best wishes.

Little Minty seems to be lively enough in herself. But she no longer grooms and is looking quite tatty.

I have had to cut off a load of cots (clumped balls of hair) and similar all over her. As part of this she seems to have developed aa yellowish sticky to her head fur, which cots loosley and can be pulled off. This is where she is going bald.

She is eating (just little bits) OK, and doing her toiletry OK. This includes copious amounts of wee, which, I believe, indicates failing kidneys. Still she is a good age (19).

We are expecting to find her kaput one morning, but her quality of life (attention, running around, eating and toilet) is OK so far.

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Little Minty seems to be lively enough in herself. But she no longer grooms and is looking quite tatty.

I have had to cut off a load of cots (clumped balls of hair) and similar all over her. As part of this she seems to have developed aa yellowish sticky to her head fur, which cots loosley and can be pulled off. This is where she is going bald.

She is eating (just little bits) OK, and doing her toiletry OK. This includes copious amounts of wee, which, I believe, indicates failing kidneys. Still she is a good age (19).

We are expecting to find her kaput one morning, but her quality of life (attention, running around, eating and toilet) is OK so far.

We are expecting to find her kaput one morning, but her quality of life (attention, running around, eating and toilet) is OK so far.

Awwww John, I know how you feel. I saw my old cat fade away also. :-(

You lot are not pulling your weight ...
Start crunching for G*d's sake!!!
I've got 6 ,200 credits in my PENDING File !!!!

Mine are crunching Albert... I had that much and more pending a few days ago, but a problem with the wireless card on my laptop, and Comcast doing it's updating the last 2 days have taken a toll on it... (It's still the highest RAC in the team though)...

"..please tell John Clark that his tired old Cat has Diabetes and needs insulin, If not then the animal is suffering terribly... "

I hope this won't worry you, but it sounds like you should get her to the vet.

"..please tell John Clark that his tired old Cat has Diabetes and needs insulin, If not then the animal is suffering terribly... "

I hope this won't worry you, but it sounds like you should get her to the vet.

Esme ... thanks for the feedback, and possible diagnosis.

The vet looked at her, for her booster injection, about a month ago. His view was Minty was just very old. The pointers he used were ...

* Loosing body fat (boney, and that happened to our 17 year old poodle, Candy, some 15 years ago);
* Weeing a great deal (happened to Candy as well);
* Knowing her age.

Looking at her behaviour she seems no different to normal, just slower. She chats to us, and the dogs we allow to see her. She is eating (although small bits), she is drinking OK (evidenced by the wee and other toilet in her moggy toilet bowl), etc. Moreover, animals kidneys regularly start to fail as they get very old.

She is giving no evidence of being in pain, especially when I set about her a few days ago to gently remove, and cut out, the cots in her fur. She did object on 2 occasions as I cut a massive cot off along the lower part of her spine. I read that the cot eas large and pulling hair tight on her skin, causing some discumfort? So, I am sure with the evidence we have seen, Minty is not in constant pain (difficult to tell in an animal I know).

I will discuss this with Sheila and make up our minds. However, the fact she is as old as she is is the major factor we need to bear in mind!

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MY vet told me to give my dog half of a tylenol when my dog was in pain years ago. It did seem ot help, we used the hard tablet kind. Mine is now long gone, 5 years or so. You might want to talk to your vet about it. Mine was about 50 lbs, shepherd/husky/lab mix, very pretty and we called her Sandy because of her color. Shih-szu's are tiny in comparison.

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MY vet told me to give my dog half of a tylenol when my dog was in pain years ago. It did seem ot help, we used the hard tablet kind. Mine is now long gone, 5 years or so. You might want to talk to your vet about it. Mine was about 50 lbs, shepherd/husky/lab mix, very pretty and we called her Sandy because of her color. Shih-szu's are tiny in comparison.

If Tylenol is the same as what we call paracetamol , it's very toxic to cats.

Edit: Just checked, they are the same thing..on no account give to your cat.

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