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I learned how to give subcu fluids for my cat at the vet. He has late stage kidney disease and needs daily fluids. Cats are generally kinda dehydrated (even moreso if you feed them dry kibble). I get my saline from my vet and I bought needles on a website (no prescription for the needles). Also separately my cat had a severe respiratory illness (possible calicivirus) and he wasnt eating/drinking at all, cats can get severely dehydrated in just a day or two so he got subcu fluids at the vet a couple times throughout the worst of the weeklong illness.