By Rhiannon Hutchinson Back in the 90’s, my soul mate kitty, Tabitha, was diagnosed at 10-years old with injection site sarcoma between her shoulder blades. It was caused by a rabies vaccine, and that kind of cancer is especially bad because it grows like an octopus: it puts out long tentacles in every direction, which…
I’d like to introduce you to Lisa Knight and her beautiful 16.5 year old cat, Simba. They join the ranks of inspiring cancer healing stories here, where a cat beats the predictions that he only has weeks to live. When she sent me this story, she said: “Your post about Nate (recovering from high-grade lymphoma) was something…
Like so many cancer stories, this not a simple one. It involves conventional treatments that don’t work out, but it ends with natural treatments and a happy cat! This story is a big deal to me because I lost a cat to high-grade (large cell) intestinal lymphoma. While low-grade lymphoma is more treatable, cats are…
Holistic veterinary expertise is still rare, but some of the experienced ones are now available by phone. This can be very helpful if your local vet doesn’t have all the time and expertise you need.
If you need to do some cat health research and don’t want to waste time on the outdated, the misinformed, the dubious, the bogus, and the advertising-centric, this list should help.
UPDATED 2016 If you’re like me, you may yearn to give your cat something besides those petroleum/mineral oil hairball products. (See my worries about ingesting petroleum jelly supported here and also here. Also, long term use interferes with your cat’s ability to absorb the important fat-soluble vitamins – A, E and D – according to vetinfo.com.)…
