Babydoll
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mandy1973 said:Well, I took Columbus off to his new vet this morning (we were unhappy with our old one, they didn't seem to take anything we said seriously)
So poor Columbus had some bloods taken to see if we could find out why he's lost weight and why he's vomiting so much. Turns out he has a high creatinine - a sign of early kidney failure
The vet wants me to try and get a urine specimen from Columbus - but he goes outside to go to the toilet, and will never use the litter tray we have inside for Jewel - so I have a feeling that is going to be an impossible task. The only other option is for him to spend the day in the hospital and they will get a specimen a more invasive way!!
From what the vet was saying it sounds like Columbus might have to be on medication and a special diet for the rest of his life!! And seeing that he is only 10 - that might (hopefully) be a very long time.
Does anyone else here have a cat with kidney disease? Have you been able to manage it successfully with medication? And has anyone had to get a urine specimen from their cat before?
Babydoll said:x 738753487432!!
Little baby Zooropa playing with ONE band
Sicy said:She's beautiful.
Babydoll said:Aww, she's sooo pretty! How old is she?
livviebway said:She's lovely! Is she a Russian Blue?
livviebway said:She's lovely! Is she a Russian Blue?
Sicy said:Cute kitties
Yeah I was going to say dilute tortie on Isabella as well.
U2Fanatic4ever said:
question,
can a dilute torti come from parents who were one all black and one all white?
How does the genetics work to get a dilute torti?
Liesje said:
Depends. I don't know enough about coloring and pattern genetics to say which are dominant and which are recessive. I'm also unsure as to whether a "dilute" torti is actually some other gene diluting the torti, or a seperate coloring we just call diluted because that's what it looks like. Maybe Sicy will know. Marijke is a torbi (torti+tabby), not dilute b/c she's black and brown rather than gray and tan.
Do you know if the all-white was a true double merle/"lethal white"? A pure white cat with blue eyes (as opposed to red eyes like in albino animals) is very rare and they are almost always deaf and have other health problems. This is usually true for lethal white dogs as well and lethal white horses will not survive more than a week.