I can understand trying different techniques and tools to find what works best for Peanut, but I'm afraid that that strategy may have actually caused the problems you're having now. Each time you tried something that may have made him more uncomfortable, like larger needles, room temp fluids, or larger fluid volumes, you may have soured his attitude toward the whole procedure and made him distrustful. Now he doesn't know what to expect, so he's expecting the worst. Stick with 20 ga needles, warmed fluids, and smaller fluid volumes daily. Distractions work with some cats, while other cats find distractions irritating. If distractions aren't working with Peanut, try just sitting very quietly and benignly with him during admins. My Billy was quite cooperative as long as I sat like a stone next to him, but the slightest movement or sound on my part would irritate him and make him try to leave. Also, cats can develop scar tissue at the site of admin, making admins uncomfortable if you use the same site every time. Billy had a favorite site that I used for almost a year before he suddenly started fighting the procedure. Once I moved a centimeter over, he was fine again. If you generally place the needle so that fluid runs down Peanut's left shoulder, try placing it so fluid runs down his right, instead. Laurie

lol silver, You just reminded me of my ex calling me just after DH & I got married. (no, he is not on my FB) His daughter found my daughter and called her. My daughter told his daughter that I had gotten married so he decided to call me.... the first words outta his mouth... "So, you got married & didn't wait for me?" I LAUGHED! I thought he was kidding around... I mean he has been married for 18 years and I haven't seen him in 19. Why would I wait? Right? So, I joked back (my husband was standing right there cooking dinner with me)... and then he asked me if I was happy in my marriage and told me how jealous his wife is of me because she feels threatened by me. Ummm, gotta go dude! I told him that I am very happy and sorry to hear he is not, then got off the phone. When I told my DH, he thought it was funny... of course he knows I am not interested and he trusts me. Funny thing is, about a month later my ex's wife called me. She wanted to talk to me about arranging for my daughter to meet their family. She was very nice and told me that she has been trying for YEARS to get her husband to call and/or see my daughter... told me that she was raised without a father and knows what it's like... etc. In no way did she seem jealous, threatened or insecure about me. I think her husband was playing a game to see if he can get his wife & ex to fight over him... I think some guys enjoy that attention. Sadly, it didn't work out for him and he has not seen my daughter still. That was three years ago. (I do have his wife on my myspace though...)

I'm going to try Bugspop1's suggestions. I have Xfinity1 and ATT routers, so it may be perilous and require calling them again for help. Also both routers have been replaced in the past 2 weeks because of other problems: The ATT router suddenly and mysteriously stopped allowing any telephone caller ID and calling features...the technician who replaced the router said he didn't know why this happened or what caused it. ATT provides 3 mbps speed, which is (from my experience) not fast enough for Amazon video, so we use ATT mainly when Xfinity isn't working. We have just one phone connected to ATT. The Xfinity/Comcast router was replaced last week because of tv issues. I got fed up with the poor service on the last cable boxes. All channels not HD were stretched to fit the format of our HD tvs. So all the people on tv look like they weigh 500 lbs. Comcast refused for months to provide info to change this in the setup menu of the cable box. So after hours on the phone to them and several trips to their store, we now have tv that shows HD and SD in the proper formats. I also had to accept yet another phone line from Comcast, their bundle, to save money. Their internet/tv bill was $270. The new bill including phone is now supposed to be $190. The stupid downside to this is the Comcast rep said I have to call Comcast on the phone number they provide, otherwise they won't provide any support. I already have 4 phone numbers so this is very annoying to me. After the cable boxes were replaced the internet router was reset by Comcast when they set up the cable boxes. That evening I logged in to the xfinity web site and saw that some videos would play and others wouldn't. CNN wouldn't play anything at all (though accessing the site outside of the xfinity portal allows some videos to play). So I called up Xfinity support who weren't helpful at all. They actually said they don't support video playback help issues on their own site! So their support is less than adequate imho. I tried the suggestions about changing video quality...Amazon works ok in SD. In HD videos start off in very poor quality and gradually get better. I don't use amazon streaming when I'm out of town because the site only streams in HD and would quickly use up my data allowance. Windows Defender is up to date. Nvidia has automatically updated it's drivers several times since I got the MSI laptop. The MSI also did the update where it installed a new version of Win10 (It took about 17 hours). There isn't any software in common on the two laptops. I tried a system restore on the MSI. It didn't help, but it didn't hurt. I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe flash several times. If I can get inside the router setup menus is it easy to figure out if the routers are allowing adobe flash video? I'll keep working on this....

Users have to enable the function. His name "Tom" in this year's postings seems to be a resumption of using his old account. "Tom123" had been the name in his postings; I do not remember whether messaging was enabled in that account. By virtue of his posting in the Pentas thread, he will be notified of comments as they occur there, provided that his account is so configured; I think that it is. So, in that thread post another comment, directed to him. in your account, nothing about messaging is visible to me, using three browsers. Try to message me, as a test of whether messaging per se is operational.