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Hello all. Turning to the forum in the hope that there might be some pearls of wisdom amongst the knowledgeable cat folk on here...
Just before Christmas my OH's old (approx 18yo) and much loved cat disappeared. He was in fine form in the morning, shouting for breakfast as usual, then had his lunch as usual and at some point in the afternoon he popped out and never came back. We tramped around everywhere locally looking for him, had all neighbours checking outhouses etc but he had vanished. We assumed that in spite of showing no signs that he must have taken himself off to die somewhere and mourned him as gone because even if he was still out there somewhere we had had some fairly brutal storms in the following 48 hours that it seemed unlikely he would have survived.
But then on Saturday night, a neighbour sent a message with a screenshot from a private fb group of people in the local town where a lady was asking about a cat that she had fed the last couple of days because it had been meowing insistently outside her door. Sure enough it was our cat so we rushed on down and collected him. He was found approx three miles from home, so we are assuming that he must have got into the van of the electrician that was on the lane that day, because cant think how else he would have got that far across some pretty busy roads.
Despite all the odds he seemed OK in himself - was meowing and purring, happy to be home and curled up on the bed. But he had lost most of his body weight and is now skin and bones. He ate that evening we brought him home, and then 4 or 5 small meals the next day, but yesterday he only ate a very small amount in the morning and then wasn't really tempted by anything we offered him in the evening, and again this morning he is not interested
. Still drinking fine (maybe slightly more than normal, but I'm not sure)
Planning to take him to the vets later today as I'm kind of assuming that there is some renal failure going on there, but thought I would ask on here whether anyone has any go-to foods that will tempt a cat to eat? He has always been fussy about food, rarely eating dry food his whole life. When he was younger he used to catch himself rabbits fairly frequently (never chased anything else much) but as he's aged he has eaten just a variety of wet foods, with several different brands kept in the house at a time as he frequently does the cat thing of eating one type vivaciously for a few days before deciding it is poison and demanding something else. Yesterday we have tried tuna, sardines and two types of cat food but despite seeming hungry, when he goes to eat he just ends up turning away after sniffing and licking it.
ETA: sorry that is so long!
Just before Christmas my OH's old (approx 18yo) and much loved cat disappeared. He was in fine form in the morning, shouting for breakfast as usual, then had his lunch as usual and at some point in the afternoon he popped out and never came back. We tramped around everywhere locally looking for him, had all neighbours checking outhouses etc but he had vanished. We assumed that in spite of showing no signs that he must have taken himself off to die somewhere and mourned him as gone because even if he was still out there somewhere we had had some fairly brutal storms in the following 48 hours that it seemed unlikely he would have survived.
But then on Saturday night, a neighbour sent a message with a screenshot from a private fb group of people in the local town where a lady was asking about a cat that she had fed the last couple of days because it had been meowing insistently outside her door. Sure enough it was our cat so we rushed on down and collected him. He was found approx three miles from home, so we are assuming that he must have got into the van of the electrician that was on the lane that day, because cant think how else he would have got that far across some pretty busy roads.
Despite all the odds he seemed OK in himself - was meowing and purring, happy to be home and curled up on the bed. But he had lost most of his body weight and is now skin and bones. He ate that evening we brought him home, and then 4 or 5 small meals the next day, but yesterday he only ate a very small amount in the morning and then wasn't really tempted by anything we offered him in the evening, and again this morning he is not interested
. Still drinking fine (maybe slightly more than normal, but I'm not sure)Planning to take him to the vets later today as I'm kind of assuming that there is some renal failure going on there, but thought I would ask on here whether anyone has any go-to foods that will tempt a cat to eat? He has always been fussy about food, rarely eating dry food his whole life. When he was younger he used to catch himself rabbits fairly frequently (never chased anything else much) but as he's aged he has eaten just a variety of wet foods, with several different brands kept in the house at a time as he frequently does the cat thing of eating one type vivaciously for a few days before deciding it is poison and demanding something else. Yesterday we have tried tuna, sardines and two types of cat food but despite seeming hungry, when he goes to eat he just ends up turning away after sniffing and licking it.
ETA: sorry that is so long!
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