Comments on: The Struggle Is Real https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-struggle-is-real-2/ #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Laura https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-struggle-is-real-2/#comment-811536 Wed, 07 May 2025 05:32:48 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=39643#comment-811536 I’m sorry to hear about your cat-medicating woes!

We lucked out with a couple of our cats, who apparently liked the taste of bubblegum-flavored amoxicillin — one would lap it right out of a spoon and then complain when it was gone.

]]> By: Kecia A. https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-struggle-is-real-2/#comment-809785 Thu, 01 May 2025 19:49:38 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=39643#comment-809785 Just wanted to thank you so much for posting about your pets; I love all your books (have most of them and have enjoyed many reading binge days/nights) but I can so relate to the trials and joys of pet ownership you post as I have my own geriatric “pet hospital”. We have a 14 year old orange tabby who is allergic to all poultry (chicken, duck, turkey) and reacts to the most minute amount with projectile vomiting and hair shedding that looks like it snowed overnight on my hardwood floor; a 13 year old beagle/basset/blue tick who is petrified of thunderstorms and loves beer (the carbonation causes her to roll on the grass like a horse, so funny!) and a 6 year old torty kitty who chirps instead of meowing and expresses her displeasure and any small stressor by peeing on the offending person’s paperwork/magazines. Never a dull moment at our household! Thanks again for the comic relief and pet love you share. (If you ever need any funny pet photos just email me.)

]]> By: nl https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-struggle-is-real-2/#comment-807339 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:07:18 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=39643#comment-807339 The medicine struggle. I love being the great betrayer when I put on the flea medicine. I swear I just think about it and they both know and run for the hills. Also, I have one furbaby who has gone through so many medical trials, medicines etc. Mysterious paralysis of her hind legs (thankfully succumbed to broadshoot medication because the vets had no idea). Then Overgrooming (or plucking the hair out) because of allergies, etc. Finally after many trials, tribulations, medications she HATED the vet thought of something he used to do in the 70s and it has mostly done the trick. But here was the magic of it — the medicine was chicken flavored and my cat loved it. Would happily let me dropper it in. Someone tell me why all medicine cannot be flavored so cats love it????? And not in a stupid pill form?
I have to say though she has remained amazingly sweet throughout it all other than running for the hills when she does not care for whatever it is we must do.

]]> By: Becky https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-struggle-is-real-2/#comment-807258 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:49:11 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=39643#comment-807258 We needed a full set of plate armor to give our kitty any medicine.

]]> By: Lora Tyler https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-struggle-is-real-2/#comment-806903 Sun, 20 Apr 2025 03:08:24 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=39643#comment-806903 Love y’all. Would love to hold Oliver…. He sounds so beautiful…. Tuna is such a cutie.

]]> By: Katy https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-struggle-is-real-2/#comment-806865 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 22:09:01 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=39643#comment-806865 You have my sympathy on the IBD. One of our boys was diagnosed over Christmas and it’s been a never ending balance since to find a food that he’ll both eat and not trigger vomiting. So far on kibble the Hills Biome is working for us but still trying to find a soft food. We’re also identifying that hairballs send him into a major flare requiring antacids and anti nausea medications to resolve. We have a follow up next week and I’m going to ask if he should get a shave to see if that helps lengthen the time between hairballs/flares. He also is prone to bladder crystals, has a heart murmur, and is also classified as elderly now. It’s a lot, but we love him and are trying to keep him healthy and happy for as long as possible.

]]> By: Dawn https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-struggle-is-real-2/#comment-806863 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:58:36 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=39643#comment-806863 Ah yes. What we do for our kitties\pets. I feel your pain.

Teal’c (the worlds tiniest Maine Coon) has seizures if exposed to beef (cheese in the general vacinity is fine, but we can’t even bring beef into the house). That took a LOT to figure out because every test by a vet was a big shrug and anti-seizure meds and cats don’t mix. He WILL take CBD treats which have reduced his seizures from (at times) several times a week to now going for 3+ months between. We think they’re also stress related – when I’m stressed, he’s stressed. But CBD helps (he’s now 15). Frankly, CBD helps me too (but I digress LOL). Because of the beef thing and so many cat foods have “animal fat” not just “chicken fat” added – Royal Canin Salmon and Duck are all he’ll eat that doesn’t contain beef that I’ve been able to find (for wet food).

Saxo (short for Mr. Saxobeat) is a Short Hair tuxedo. Anything other than Royal Canine Digestive (for kibble) and it doesn’t stay down. Now that he’s 12 he’s having trouble with the extra “sheath” on his claws so I ALSO get the joys of clipping his nails before they curl under and puncture his pads.

Love them both and do what I can because they’re our rescues and as long as they’re happy and loving life, we’ll do everything we can for them.

]]> By: Randy https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/the-struggle-is-real-2/#comment-806799 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:49:14 +0000 https://ilona-andrews.com/?p=39643#comment-806799 In reply to Bea.

Yeah, and catered to cats as well.

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