# My oldest cat is sick

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 11, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-oldest-cat-is-sick/532096 "2010-03-11T13:06:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-oldest-cat-is-sick/532096/21 "2010-03-16T17:40:23Z")

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Medicine that makes an elder cat sleepy is…not noticeable. 🙂

Glad to hear she’s doing better. Sorry about the pricetag - when we took our elder cat in to get her arthritis looked after, it ended up being a nice, round $700 (vet check-up, x-rays, bloodwork, shot of something, nails trimmed, prescriptions - the whole she-bang).

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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-oldest-cat-is-sick/532096/22 "2010-03-17T18:19:45Z")

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Crush the tablets into a powder, mix with a small blob of butter and smear it on her foreleg, she will lick it off.

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**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-oldest-cat-is-sick/532096/23 "2010-03-17T20:07:05Z")

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I noticed this weekend that my cat Nick was going from litter box to litter box without much scratching, so I took him to the vet Monday. He has a kidney infection (and I was told that he’s a fatty catty and needs to lose weight. 13.1 lbs isn’t fat! He’s just big-boned.

He gets banana-flavoured clavamox twice a day. Fortunately he doesn’t hold a grudge.

StG

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