How To Convince Your Cat To Take Her Medicine, Billi Speaks
This is a long one, so bear with us Billi is an older lady with a few chronic health issues that we juggle. She a has inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) which means we have to be VERY careful with what we feed her. In particular land animals (chicken, turkey, beef) seem to be the biggest culprits. Shes well controlled on her prescription diet, but finding safe things for treats, meds can be a challenge She has polycystic kidneys which she was born with, which predisposes her to kidney disease. Two years ago she had a lifesaving surgery after getting a ureteral stone (a kidney stone that lodges in the tube that connects the kidney to the bladder), and has been doing incredibly well Unfortunately shes started to have some recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs), which become more complicated to treat with her new ureter (called a SUB, or subcutaneous ureteral bypass). This is because bacteria can form a shield on inorganic plastic) material that makes it harder for a
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