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Today has not been the best of days. She's eating very little without a lot of coaxing. We've tried different flavors of fancy feast gravy lovers. We've tried shredded turkey. No love. She'll lick at it enthusiastically for a minute or two, then walk away. This is with the cyproheptadine appetite stimulant on board, too. Sigh.
She's been very tired and sleepy most of the day again. We thought perhaps she might be feeling a bit uncomfortable this afternoon so we tried the ketaprofen pain med at half the prescribed dose. She seemed to perk up a bit--spent part of her afternoon sunning herself in the den, then retired to her bed in the office rather than retreat to the master bedroom to lay half-asleep in the darkened room with me. I should've been at the Humane Haven cattery with J tending to the homeless kitties for our regular Sunday shift, but I decided to stay home with the intent of keeping an eye on Jazz while J was gone. Instead, because I was depressed and not feeling good, I fell asleep for most of the time he was gone tending to the homeless kitties. :/ Whoops.
So far today we've tried shredded turkey twice, once with minimal success this morning, the second time this evening with better success. Tried the ocean whitefish gravy lovers, but she might've licked it once before letting Lars push her out of the way of her bowl so he could snarf it down while I was out of the room for a minute fetching something else. He's currently in a "Time Out" in the safe room for that trick. He's just being a hungry cat, I know, but he needs to know he can't bully any other cat in this house out of their food! I then tried beef gravy lovers and took it to her in the master bedroom (yeah, she's back in there; daddy's reading in there and she likes his lap to lay on) to eat and she ate a bit more of that, though not much.
In addition she's not drinking much, so she's not been going to the bathroom at all, either duty. I fear she's shutting down. She still looks pretty alert and is getting around alright, but she won't get off the kitchen table after she gets her meds by herself any more--we have to pick her up and put her on the floor and then she goes on her way.
I just don't know what to do! I guess I'll be calling the vet tomorrow morning first thing and seek out their guidance. There's always that different, stronger appetite stimulant pill to try. I haven't tried bringing out the tuna/tuna juice to supplement on her food again. J thinks I should go to PetSmart again tomorrow and ask the staff to steer me to what they think is the most appealing and stinky/smelly of all their gushy foods to try to see if she'll eat that. So there are options. I daresay, though, that I don't think they're going to work. I think I'm losing my baby. And this thought is breaking my heart into tiny bite-sized pieces... :(
She's been very tired and sleepy most of the day again. We thought perhaps she might be feeling a bit uncomfortable this afternoon so we tried the ketaprofen pain med at half the prescribed dose. She seemed to perk up a bit--spent part of her afternoon sunning herself in the den, then retired to her bed in the office rather than retreat to the master bedroom to lay half-asleep in the darkened room with me. I should've been at the Humane Haven cattery with J tending to the homeless kitties for our regular Sunday shift, but I decided to stay home with the intent of keeping an eye on Jazz while J was gone. Instead, because I was depressed and not feeling good, I fell asleep for most of the time he was gone tending to the homeless kitties. :/ Whoops.
So far today we've tried shredded turkey twice, once with minimal success this morning, the second time this evening with better success. Tried the ocean whitefish gravy lovers, but she might've licked it once before letting Lars push her out of the way of her bowl so he could snarf it down while I was out of the room for a minute fetching something else. He's currently in a "Time Out" in the safe room for that trick. He's just being a hungry cat, I know, but he needs to know he can't bully any other cat in this house out of their food! I then tried beef gravy lovers and took it to her in the master bedroom (yeah, she's back in there; daddy's reading in there and she likes his lap to lay on) to eat and she ate a bit more of that, though not much.
In addition she's not drinking much, so she's not been going to the bathroom at all, either duty. I fear she's shutting down. She still looks pretty alert and is getting around alright, but she won't get off the kitchen table after she gets her meds by herself any more--we have to pick her up and put her on the floor and then she goes on her way.
I just don't know what to do! I guess I'll be calling the vet tomorrow morning first thing and seek out their guidance. There's always that different, stronger appetite stimulant pill to try. I haven't tried bringing out the tuna/tuna juice to supplement on her food again. J thinks I should go to PetSmart again tomorrow and ask the staff to steer me to what they think is the most appealing and stinky/smelly of all their gushy foods to try to see if she'll eat that. So there are options. I daresay, though, that I don't think they're going to work. I think I'm losing my baby. And this thought is breaking my heart into tiny bite-sized pieces... :(
