Moderator Note: This thread was split from an old thread dating back to 2014
Anyone needs a cat calendar? Here is a nice one, by Portland US Army Corps of Engineers! Free to use and download. 
Available here:
https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16021coll11/id/5869/
Reminded me of that thread about inheritance… be nice to your parents’
cat. 
When D2 travels, I usually go to her house twice per day to feed her cats and love on them for an hour. One cat is huge and always tries to eat the tiny cat’s food. The tiny cat, probably always worrying about the other cat getting her food, eats too fast in the morning and then pukes it all up. I find that giving her just a couple of bites in the morning, then feeding her the rest before I leave seems to cut down on the vomiting. For some reason, she never vomits the evening meal.
Oops, didn’t mean to respond directly to you SupportiveMom11, meant to just reply to thread.
@Nrdsb4 - we have two cats and one would like to eat food slowly and come back to it, but her sister gobbles down food and if the other one doesn’t finish her food her sister will eat it. When we travel H sets up 2 auto feeders that dispense a little bit of food 4 times per day. This way we know that they aren’t eating all of their food too quickly.
We too have a fast eater. She came from a cat hoarding situation, and apparently she had to eat fast or other cats would get her food. I’m trying to slow her down by smearing her food around her dish in a thin layer so she doesn’t gobble it up in one bite.
@BunsenBurner one of my kids uses something similar to slow down a pooch. They make this for cats too. It takes them some time to get to the kibbles around the raised things.
Or check these for wet or dry food!
Good ideas. Our relatives feed their dog by putting kibble into a ball device that needs to be rolled around for the kibble to fall out.
Sadly, this particular cat is too smart. Instead of licking food out of one of these plates, she decided that it was too much work and would butt the other two cats out of their dishes. Smearing food around a regular bowl seems to work well so far. 
We had two cats for a while and one couldn’t eat the food the other was eating. We had to feed them separately. For a while, we fed one in our master bath, and the other downstairs. That worked. Eventually they were able to be fed with their bowls on the opposite side of our kitchen…but I never would have left them alone!
If we had a pet sitter, the food special food for the once cat was just given to them both. No harm to cat two!
It may be time to put my almost 14 YO diabetic cat to sleep soon. We’ve had her since she was a tiny kitten, and she was kind of both my sons’ emotional support during HS and beyond.
We waited too long with our previous older cat.
This one seems to have good days and bad days now, and we worry she might be suffering more than we can see. I probably posted here a couple of years ago that she had pancreatitis and spend 5 days in the kitty ICU.
Who knows, maybe she will be here at this time next year, but honestly I think I’m posting to help me get used to the idea.
It’s very hard, I know. With our last cat, he just totally lost interest in food after a couple of good years despite suffering kidney disease. I couldn’t just watch him starve to death though. So we had a visiting vet put him to sleep. I couldn’t bear to see him suffer one more minute, though perhaps he wasn’t suffering like I thought he was.
And for a bit of a lightheartedness, we were taking care of a friend’s chickens that summer. Our cat loved watching the chickens doing their thing.
At just about the moment the vet was going to give him his injection, the chickens came clucking by, which roused his interest. So we were tearfully saying our goodbyes to the cat and petting his chin, and then I was trying to shoo the chickens away without causing a commotion. I actually think it was a pretty good ending for him, all things considered.
In 2019 both my older and younger cats died of renal failure. The 19 year old was doing ok on the renal diet, then one day was done. She stopped eating and drinking, gradually became more lethargic and passed away on my bed. I would love her up multiple times per day and she was always responsive to my touch till the end.
The second, a younger cat was a more complicated story and had a rather sudden renal failure, though the vet said it could have been developing for a while. I kept her alive with IV fluids for a D soon to arrive home, fed her by syringe, and she spent hours content in my arms. After D arrived home, we let her drift off peacefully. I’d have put either to sleep quickly with signs of pain or agitation, but both were quite peaceful.
Sending hugs. It is SO hard to lose a pet, and to know when to say goodbye.
Hugs. Cats are notorious for their ability to hide pain. We had a cat that died “naturally,” and it was quite traumatic for us. I really wished I’d taken her to the vet to put her to sleep, but I was hoping she’d be Ok for a few more months. 
My diabetic cat, posted about above, has now peed in our kitchen 4 times within about the last 2 weeks, with us right there!
We have attempted to clean up thoroughly after each time, and she’s done it in more than one place.
We take her to the vet tomorrow. Hopefully it’s a UTI or something easy to fix, but we already had to throw away our living room furniture after she peed several times before we figured out she had diabetes.
Very frustrating…
Well cat got antibiotic shot and is still peeing in the kitchen, usually when we are eating dinner. It almost seems like she’s doing it on purpose, maybe because she’s mad we are eating and she’s not.
Has anyone here used cat attract cat litter? The vet suggested it, so we will give it a try.
We will hear results of blood work tomorrow.
I’m so sorry you haven’t been able to find a solution. yet. Litter box issues can be so frustrating! We have used the Dr. Elsey’s Kitten Attract litter for kittens and it seems to work well. I haven’t used the adult version for misbehaving older cats, however.
Have you tried a strong deodorizer cleaner in the places where she’s been going in the kitchen? We found Odo-Ban to be very effective in removing pet odors (and teenage boy odors for that matter!). Kitchens are heavy traffic areas, I realize, but is there a way to barricade the area where she’s been going so that she can’t go back there?
Good luck finding something that works.
Thanks for the suggestion and thumbs up on at least the kitten version of litter.
We cleaned the kitchen areas well, and last night she urinated in our living room. We put a litter box on our downstairs level, hoping that may help.
I’m sure she’s drinking more water than she does normally.
Her blood work showed one number somewhat elevated related to kidney (normal up to 36, hers was 47), but doc said overall her numbers look good, for a diabetic cat. Doc said if new litter doesn’t help to bring her in for urinalysis and an ultrasound.
Doc did mention slight chance of movement towards pancreatitis, which she had during COVID and we spent thousands treating. It’s very painful.
My guess even before hearing numbers was kidney issues.
