I understand the lack of choice, in fact, I feel frustrated for you guys.

Maybe I just researched wayyyyyyy too much into what food to feed my cats lol that I now believe that fish on a regular basis for cats is not complete nutrition for them.

papaya?? wow thats a first. so far the only healthy/green stuff i fed them is that cat grass thingy which i later found out is actually common wheat grass. that and the occasional chewing of my money plant
i'll let my cat try papaya and see if they like it.

+1

I did this to my cat all the time.
If you wanna have the canned-food feel, you may add agar2 (it'll become the starchy thingy) and put it in the fridge.
Usually I do it with the whole chicken, cut down to small pieces of course.
This can tahan the whole month! (I fed my 3 cats wet food once a day, kibbles for the rest of the meal).

At least by doing it myself, I know there's no by-product.

I did read about the fish & mercury issue. Since then I did reduced the amount of tuna when feeding my cats. I'm still feeding my cats with pet food that contains sardine.


I'm currently dealing with cat flu, two weeks now, but since a couple days ago, few of my other cats got eye infection with one cat kinda serious. Basically 7 cats got cat flu, currently slowly recovering & 4 cats got eye infection on the right eyes.

For the 7 cats that got cat flu, the fever+antibiotic tablets already run out but they're recovering now albeit slowly. The only symptoms left are sneezing & a couple of them watery eyes little bit. Two still got inflamed eyes because their eyes inflamed a bit later than the other cats. I have eye drops medicine to take care of this. I quarantine them in two rooms; 3 kittens including their mother in one room (the mother got eye infection on the right eyes probably from her kittens. The eyes still look ok & remain ok since I detected it but she seems feels uncomfortable with the right eye with the right eye lid not fully opened. Hopefully the eye drops medicine work fast.) & another 4 kittens (stray cats, fresh & hungry too because they seems don't know where to go) in the living room in two 3-storey cages. The good news is they didn't loose appetite & they're recovering well, just need to monitor the two cats that have inflamed eyes but even the inflamed parts already slowly shrink.

For the 4 cats that got eye infection on the right eyes, all of them have identical symptom. The right eye lid is closed & if opened, not fully. Out of the 4, the eyes on the 3 cats remains ok, not clouding or inflamed. The vet told me to give eye drops anyway. One quite serious, most of the time the right eye lid remain closed. The vet told me if I waited any longer the eye can go blind. It happened pretty quick. I detected it on the Friday evening & I only able to bring it to the clinic on Monday because the clinic closed on the weekends. The right eyes already clouding on Monday. I think my effort to clean dry out pus on the right eye lid over the weekend with clean water make it worse. The right eye lid was remain closed which probably bad idea because the water I use to clean the eye lid got in & trapped in there. I'm thinking wet = bacteria. I don't know how she got the infection because I already quarantined her in a cage when my other cats started getting cat flu. I already moved her to the front bed room, quarantine her in there alone. She can roam freely in there. The other two in living room (the other one, the mother cat I mentioned earlier in the front room with her kittens). Currently no to little discharge on the right eye anymore & the eye lid can be open a little bit. It's now third day I apply eye drops to the eyes of these cats. Hopefully they get better quick.

Basically these rooms are cleared for sick cats only because easier for us to monitor them:-

1. the living room (two 3-storey cages for the 4 kittens that have cat flu, one 3-storey cage for a kitten with eye infection - actually only caged her at night to limit her movement, and one male cat roam freely - this one like to sleep all the time which is why I'm not worried of him roaming freely)
2. the front bedroom (only one cat with serious right eye infection I mentioned earlier)
3. the front room (the mother cat with right eye infection & her 3 kittens with cat flu)

There are 4 cats that doesn't get any infection that I already moved & quarantined in the middle bed room. For good measure I quarantined them in three 3-storeys cages. Unfortunately I heard one of the cats sneezing a couple of times. Hopefully not cat flu. No symptom yet.

The ones that didn't get cat flu, including the ones that got eye infection already got cat flu before. However, except one, all of them didn't get full blown cat flu, just sneezing & watery eyes because I also quarantined them last time.

Sorry, I'm really worried & feels the need to talk to somebody. That's why I wrote this in the forum.

Hi,
I think my cat got infested by ear mites. My cat keep scratching till full of wound and no more fur left on the ears. Anybody know how to cure it. Any recommended products?

Thanks

Hi,
I think my cat got infested by ear mites. My cat keep scratching till full of wound and no more fur left on the ears. Anybody know how to cure it. Any recommended products?

Thanks

Unrelated to topic above...i just want the cat lover here to watch this...

Do you mean the back of the cat ear? I ask because ear mites occur in the ears. http://www.catsofaustralia.com/ear-mites-cats.htm

If the back of the cat ear, probably just need to apply tick & flea medicine. My favourite is drops type one, very affective.

My cat have the same simptom as describe in the link.. Inside of the ear also same with the picture.

i had a long fight with earmites
see vet, get eardrop, clean their ears everyday
at the same time, put them with flea & tick med
it took me around a week to clear it.

i agree! ear drop is still the best.
firestonez, please don't just simply go to a pet shop and get whatever gel to clean it.
i'll snap a photo and upload tmrw for you

This post has been edited by jessteong: Mar 25 2015, 11:12 PM

hey, sry to hear this, they will be fine under your TLC.
i had 2 flu kittens with diarrhea & earmites when i adopted them, eyes swell like gollum.

Thank you!

My cats, adik & abang(the grey one) always do that face when wan something
afterward, adek full oredi eat raw keropok lekor


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so cute!

See what drop you use... My cat also got earmites already. Applied the flea drop liao but still got. Afraid that the drop didn't absorb into the skin. Money wasted liao

Wow. We have almost similar looking cats. Especially abang.
Even the face is almost the same.
I was shocked earlier, thought that someone uploaded my cats' pictures.

This is Tommy (Grey) and Tobby (Tabby)

really looks similar!are they already spayed/neutured?

Yeah. Both neutered.
Their yearly vaccination is coming next week.
But my grey cat really hates car ride.
Almost 3 years bring him here and there. Still cannot.

Same with my adik. she will claw me so deep my cloth can koyak

checked, no label on the bottle. sorry guys, can't help much.