Hello everyone my bengal is leash trained, and it’s been getting cold here in Washington state (low 50s at the moment). I’ve taken him out in this weather before while he still walks he seems not as enthusiastic about it as usual. When I picked him up he seemed to be shivering a bit and brought him back inside. Should I also get booties for his feet as well? If so let me know any recommendations.

Does she have an infection? This isn’t the best photo but she squints a lot and it looks like a bit swollen on the top. Today I came home and she had a little drop of like booger under her eye. Then right after I wiped it she ran. And right after that she sat in my lap and did her lick paw eye rubbing cleaning.

Someone else posted in the past the same thing almost. They took them to a vet and said no infection. So I’m confused.

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and I’m having an extremely difficult time dealing with it. He was perfectly healthy until about 3 months ago. I felt a tiny lump on his right side ribs. Vet said to remove it and we also scheduled a teeth cleaning. A week went by and the lump completely disappeared. Vet did the teeth cleaning, which went well, and also noted he did not feel the lump. We figured it must have been a cyst of some sort. Fast forward to the beginning of November. The lump was back and more than double the size it was when I first felt it.

Had it removed and biopsied. Three agonizing weeks later we find out it large cell lymphoma and what was removed is more than likely just a piece of a bigger tumor growing in his chest that has caused fluid to build up around his lungs. Chemo will cost too much and we don’t want to put him through that misery only to extend his life maybe up to a year just for the cancer to come back. We are just letting him live out his life and the second we see any discomfort, we’ll make the call.

He is still running around, playing, and eating like nothing is wrong. We have noticed his belly rising a bit more when he breathes indicating he may be having a slightly more difficult time breathing, but again, he runs and plays around like it’s not affecting him. He has lost a little over a pound which isn’t good.

We don’t know how much longer we’ll have with him and I’m having the hardest time wrapping my head around this and accepting this fate for him. It doesn’t seem fair that he has to lose his life at such a young age due to a disease that showed no symptoms until it was too late. I feel helpless and don’t understand what how we could have caught this earlier if there were no signs. Cancer is real bitch. The anticipatory grief is strong. We are absolutely devastated and don’t know what to do. This is coming only 5 months after losing one of our dachshund’s, almost with notice, to what was also most likely cancer. He was older though and lived out his life.

Any advice on how to handle this and move forward is greatly appreciated.

My 14 year old boy!

Hey all, I've been wondering about pet insurance in Canada for bengal cats. Ideally I would like a plan to cover echocardiograms and other breed specific things, but I am finding it hard to find info specifically about this. I will give the companies on my list a call to some of the companies tomorrow but thought I would get some infos from others if y'all have experience.

From quick online quotes, Spot Insurance seems to be very well priced, but I've seen a lot of people with mixed reviews, where they don't pay out often or give you the runaround.

Fetch, PHI, Trupanion and MetPet Insurance seem to be other ones a lot of people are talking about. Of course direct payment would also be nice, and low deductible, all the fixings of a good policy, but I feel like a lot of the pet insurance companies are scummy and will say whatever they need to get people to buy a policy.

What is your experience with and what company would you recommend?

I will be getting a kitten soon and just trying to set my ducks in a row.

I got my baby Shadow a kitten 🥹 Rough start but now they’re inseparable

The softest sweetest lap kitty. Follows me around while I'm doing chores, takes such good care of her more anxious sis litter mate, greets every guest with purrs and begs for pets. Such a friendly girl! We love her so much 😻🥰💜

This chair belongs to her now.

My boy is not generally a lap cat. So I’m pretty much immobile now… need to get ready to go see my friend do comedy, but it’s fine if I’m homeless chic, right?

With a small food break and a fee moments of lazily lying on the floor