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I appreciate the advice, but at a point I need to stop looking for additional opinions from more and more vets, because then you're just going from one person to the next, all of whom are happy to take $100-200 to tell you that they cannot be sure from the outside of the cat, and that taking a...

The extractions were done by a regular vet, but the mouth xray, done by the specialist vet, has indicated that they did a very good job. There is one retained root on the xray, but the specialist vet is extremely confident that this wouldn't be the problem. It certainly wouldn't cause the...

For context, just over a year ago, my cat (she's a large medium hair tabby probably aged about 6) stopped eating and we went through a frustrating and ultimately ineffective tranche of expensive interventions with a variety of vets. More information is here: 4 Year Old Cat Has Stopped Eating...

I'm sorry for raising this thread back up, but sadly my cat's illness has ultimately been unresolved and I wondered if anyone else had any insights. Following tooth extraction we saw what we hoped was an improvement. Unfortunately as soon as opiate analgesia ceased (about 4 days after my last...

I wanted to briefly drop in and provide an update, and again thank everyone who took time out to respond to this thread. The blood test we sent for failed to evidence anything other than very early stages of lower nutrition. After a failure to resume eating and a failure to respond to...

Thanks all for the help. I've bought a bunch of packet mouse and I'm syringe force feeding her. She's tolerating so far, and hasn't thrown anything up. I'm a bit worried that the forcefeeding is going to make her stressed, but it's better than her getting a mild case of liver failure.

Thanks for the help so far. I've managed to get her to gobble more treats but she's pissed off with me now for hassling her. I also think the painkillers are making her strange. It's some kind of mild opioid applied straight to the gum. I got some of the Tiki toppers which she regarded with...

Sorry for the essay but I'm going badly out of my mind as it seems my cat is starving herself. 3-7 days ago our 4yr old wholly indoor female cat started tapering off eating. She is a gobbleguts and normally begs for food constantly, but she is appallingly fussy and has a hatred for most cat...

Yeah as I said in a previous post, usual cat stuff doesn't work here. Laser pointer included. Zero interest whatsoever in that. My take is that she's clever enough to realise it isn't real and isn't interested in chasing something she can't physically bite. Physical human to cat play is the only...

Thanks all. To respond to a couple of points, she just turned 3 so she's definitely still a teenager. We have sought several times to exhaust her and just wound up exhausted ourselves. 30-40 minutes sunk in and she just rotates back to her starting pad and recommences staring. We've both tried...

x post from Reddit because I was recommended to post here. Our cat's behaviour has recently changed and it's very unnerving. When we first got her when she was a skittish and standoffish cat who didn't like us at all, constantly bolting and hiding under the couch. Over the course of about a...