My cat, Purrdina, loves to lick the ink off of photographs. She has done this since she was a kitten. She is now a healthy, slender, 10 year old cat. I have to guard the printer when printing pictures. There is something she loves about the photo paper and the photo ink. She will lick the picture clean. She even licks processed pictures. She also loves to lick the inside of plastic grocery bags. Obviously, these obsessions are not harmful to her health. Maybe they keep her healthy and slender! Mitch
Amy, So very sorry for your loss. It sounds like you did everything you could. Unfortunately the vets couldn't have figured out it was cancer earlier. Take Care, Susan
Nicolas got his shots each year; last October he was seen by Dr. McKenzie at www.Adobe-Animal.com who said he could not groom his bottom due to obesity. Nicolas began acting differently this last year at the age five he started to knead everyone thought this was cute and very normal. He stopped waking Granny up in the middle of the night for treats and began sleeping more. He began putting his head down on the carpet and we thought it was because he was hot from the apartment or because I was working and attending school too much. He started to act like he could not get comfortable at night by tossing and turning and sometimes meowing. Nicolas watched Granny who has MS during the day and she watched him. I told this to Dr. Rogers in July when she saw Nicolas for tapeworm. She said he was overweight and eating Fancy Feast was like humans eating twinkies all five vets I took Nicolas to mentioned his weight! On August 9th at 1:30am we took him to the Emergency clinic in Campbell and the tech. said "oh he looks fine" "just getting older" "different personality..." They even told me to take him home, you dont need to pay $95 for the emergency fee -- and how great Nicolas looked!! (earlier in the summer I tried to take Nicolas here and was told it was for emergencies only). This night we insisted a doctor check him and they ran x-rays and blood work on August 9th and it took Dr. Rogers and Adobe 3 days to call us backall blood work normal and normal until the end. I took him to Sunnyvale Veterinary, www.sunnyvalevet.com On August 11th, x-rays, more blood work they said full anal glands! August 13th: Nicolas could not walk and put on Adequan injections for "arthritis" and given a second 10-day's worth of Clavamox for his fever. (fever since August 8th)....Nicolas received Adequan injections every 4 days for "arthritis" -- yet he still could not use his right back leg at all -- severe lameness.....By September 2: not eating any "twinkies" -- Fancy Feast or drinking Cat Sip and not moving around at all. This was good everyone told me; let him rest and heal arthritis. I saw Dr. Shapiro/Stanford Vet. That answered my question "what is the worst thing it could be?" "A tumor!" He told me to go to VMS/VSA, www.vmsmedicine.com in San Mateo -- that they were internists/surgeons and that they could no longer help me at Stanford Veterinary I took Nicolas to VMS on Sept 4th, his knee was drained and sent home with Prednisone and bed rest the Orthopedic and Oncologist said he pulled something in his knee. Nicolas continued to sleep on my bed day in and day out, just getting up to use his litter box at night. I would feed him Temptations, the only thing he ate since June/July. He stopped eating his Fancy Feast and Chef's Blend even though he was on Prednisone to "stimulate" his appetite. I called VMS on Sept. 29th -- after Nicolas had been off of Prednisone for 3 days -- his eyes and mouth were all red. I took him in and they told me it was just an allergy; I called the following day and they prescribed Prednisone again and said to call back early the following week if it did not clear up. On October 3rd came Nicolas' eyes/mouth were still red and he was not eating and keep in mind Nicolas never walked again with his right back leg -- still severely lame since Aug. 11th. On October 4th VMS felt a mass near his hip where the x-rays showed "arthritis" -- they drained and learned it was malignant. On October 5th, they biopsied his bone -- his was cancer!! On October 6th I was told he could have surgery -- amputate his leg and pelvis to remove cancer. Late last Thursday, October 6th, I was told he could come home for the weekend because we were waiting on radiology reports to see if the cancer spread to Nicolas' chest. Last Friday, October 7th, Nicolas came home with a narcotic patch on his back right leg and he only ate 3 or 4 treats the whole weekend and slept on my bed the whole weekend and drank soooo much water the whole weekend...He was scheduled for surgery on October 10th at 7:30am remove pelvis and right back leg and I did not want to pursue it without hearing radiology reports first....My mom and I drove to San Mateo --I was hoping for Nicolas to have the surgery and ready for him to have a new patch of pain medicine placed on him. We waited for Dr. Cadile and at 11am she told us the heartbreaking news: Nicolas' cancer metastasized to his lungs and he was having a systemic reaction -- his eyes, mouth, ears, paws, bottom and shaved places were all so red. Nicolas will be buried tomorrow at Pet's Rest in Colma October 11, 2005.
MY CAT DOES THE SAME THING. BUT THEN HE GETS REALLY INTO IT, NOT ONLY LICKING..............HE STARTS BITTING THE PICTURES. IF I DONT CATCH HIME IN TIME HE MAKES A PERFECT BORDER OF BITE MARKS AROUND THE WHOLE PHOTO!!! IT DRIVES ME CRAZY HE HAS DONE IT TO SO MANY OF MY PICTURES. HE EVEN DID IT TO A PICTURE OF HIMSELF, SO WE HUNG THAT ON THE WALL!!!
This is Mr. Drac. Hes 13 and loves to perch or sleep on the satelite box! We assume cause its warm! otherwise he is sleeping in the front room on a cat rug I crocheted next to the kerosene heater. He too is very slender and very healthy. I think its in the genes! Hello to Purrdina. Kate
Purrdina is truly beautiful. I used to read a series of cat books, "THE CAT WHO..... " by Lilian Braun and there was one cat who did that and it was just like what you said. They are attracted to the smell I think. =^,,^=
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