My Cats 🐾

I have 4 cats, Artemis, Apollo, Knighty and Rupert!
Artemis and Apollo are siblings and are my cats, Knighty and Rupert are older/senior cats and are my boyfriends cats. We take care of them together and they all became one big cat family back in the end of 2024.


Rupert is a senior boy and only has 3 legs, but that doesnt stop him from being sassy and his missing leg certainly doesn't stop him from moving. 
Artemis is our only female cat, and she makes sure all the boys know she is the boss. Her and her brother are 6 yrs old and are full of energy and spice.

These two are our problem children, Rupert has a gastrointestinal disorder, so he has chronic tummy troubles. And Artemis recently found to have allergies with certain protein, specifically, we believe it to be chicken. (Tho i do have suspicion it might be other fowl as well)  ** if you want more details regarding their health issues you can scroll down to the bottom of the page, not everyone likes to know about the gross details**

Both require special food diet and unfortunately their food is expensive or ,more so for Artemis, very hard to find zero chicken made products😣.
Every order on my site or in person helps me help my cats! I have a speical offer in person and online in my shop - If you spend $50 or more in my online shop, you can receive free shipping if you use this code: LOVECATS
(You will also receive a random cat sticker)


I also have an instagram page just for them! If you ever want to enjoy cute cat videos and pictures you can follow their account:

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*** The gross details.

For Artemis we had to do a long trial of  food testing. Feeding her certain foods for a sold month and checking to see if there were diferences.
How I found out she had an issue: She loves food, and when i say she loves food she LOVES it. I would call her my garbage disposal she eats and will eat anything, so i never had an issue with her food.
Until one day i noticed blood in the litter box and that is one of the biggest not great things to find. We were in the middle of moving at the time so i tried not to panic and took it as a stress induced situation as stress can cause so many random issues and blood in stool and urine can actuly happen from stress in cats.

After a few months in our house and everyone was introuduces i noticed the blood was still in her stool. She had been to the vet and they ran some tests and checked her out and they found nothing wrong - our vet suggested she had a food allergy. And it is not an easy task to figure out what an animal is allergic to. We had to do  is a strict elimination diet trial, also known as a hypoallergenic diet trial, which lasts at least 8 to 12 weeks. I had to keep track of what she ate, a created a chart and marked everytime she ate something. Even if she stole food ~ which was hard becuase she is a quite little thief. And after about 3-4 months we came to a 89% certainty she was allergic to chicken. Their are SO many cat food products that have chicken, chicken meal, chicken by-product meal, animal fat or animal Plasma (who knows what animal) and i realized even if the food is flavored tuna or beef a LOT of companies still incorporate chicken into the products.

Rupert's issue, hes always has tummy troubles, he has a sensitive tummy. But his current issues are new and were still in the middle of fully figuring it out and how to help him. He went from have regular stool movement to just plain straight up liquid stool. Ever since we moved in together that had how his stool was been, and we thought it was nervousness and stress again just as Artemis but again just as her after several months to a year it is still the same. And everyone is well adjusted now it wouldn't make sense for it to stop be stress. We've adjusted his food many times, tried adding pumpkin to his diet, adding fiber powder, nothing. A few meds that were given via the vet helped but it was only temporary and short lived. 
At the beginning at the year I thought we were going to have a pet emergency as he didn't want to be touched, wouldn't eat his food and was crying as if something was wrong. He kept trying to go but nothing would come out, I thought he was constipated. I called off work and got him into the vet right away. His anal glands were backed up - he got those cleaned out ( absolutely horrible time, he was very violated and for anyone that has never experienced their pet needing their anal glands to be cleaned... You don't want to be in the room or anywhere nearby. It is not a pleasant experience. Very painful very uncomfortable, poor Rupert was screaming. Sounds that I've never heard a cat make) THANKFULLY, it wasn't all for not cuz it seemed to help him quite a bit along with some gastrol food we were given to try. His tummy was really going through it after we got home but he finally was able to go and he actually liked his medicated food. We tried some digestional food in the past and he didn't like it and he refused to eat it. 
This food however it seems he actually likes, he bought a case of it (thankfully our vet office has a subscription available so we signed up for that so we can get a discount on his medicated food ) and he's been on that for a week now and we've actually been able to see improvement! He most likely will have to stay on his food for the rest of his life. Thankfully and hopefully this was all he needed to help his tummy so he can have more comfortable poops.