Litter box liners are created for the convenience of the cat parent but they often tear from the catâs claws. Itâs also easy for urine to form pools in the folds of the plastic and that creates an odor problem.
Intussusception should be a consideration if your pet has a history of vomiting or diarrhea that has a palpable mass in the abdomen. The mass can be felt as a thickened sausage-shaped intestinal loop. Occasionally the small bowel can be felt entering the mass.
To that list can be added hitchhiker's thumb, a congenital recessive condition where the thumb can bend backwards to an angle of almost 45 degrees. It is not painful, and does not interfere with the other digits. It is purely a fascinating autosomal recessive phenotype. If one parent has hitchhiker's thumb and the other is not a carrier then each child would be an unaffected carrier of the condition. 2  If one parent has hitchhiker's thumb and the other is an unaffected carrier then there is a 50% chance that a child will have hitchhiker's thumb.