Hi all... I haven't posted in a long time...
I have a 15 year old DSH male that has recently been diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease. He is VERY anemic and has super high blood pressure that has caused him to lose most of his vision. The vet has put him on blood pressure meds and at the time he was eating just fine (or at least as fine as usual for him). that has now changed... I have to force his medication into him and he will not eat. I can rub some food on his upper lip and make him lick it off but he will not willing eat. I feel like I am torturing him by forcing medication and food into him - he hates it.
he has always been such a spunky, sassy cat. He is super vocal and I could always count on him to scream at me several times a day to get whatever he wants... but barely a peep out of him for the last week. He was a giant cuddle bug and would purr up a storm - now nothing. He just lies on his heating pad and barely moves except to drink water and occasionally use the litter box. he has has a total personality change and not for the better.
I have another call into the vet and am waiting for a call back - but I just don't know what to do. I know the next step would be an appetite stimulant and anti-nauseant but really I don't want to have to force more pills into him. It is torture for him and is making me feel like an awful, horrible person...
I just don't know how far to go with treatment when it really won't fix him... how much is too much???
I have a 15 year old DSH male that has recently been diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease. He is VERY anemic and has super high blood pressure that has caused him to lose most of his vision. The vet has put him on blood pressure meds and at the time he was eating just fine (or at least as fine as usual for him). that has now changed... I have to force his medication into him and he will not eat. I can rub some food on his upper lip and make him lick it off but he will not willing eat. I feel like I am torturing him by forcing medication and food into him - he hates it.
he has always been such a spunky, sassy cat. He is super vocal and I could always count on him to scream at me several times a day to get whatever he wants... but barely a peep out of him for the last week. He was a giant cuddle bug and would purr up a storm - now nothing. He just lies on his heating pad and barely moves except to drink water and occasionally use the litter box. he has has a total personality change and not for the better.
I have another call into the vet and am waiting for a call back - but I just don't know what to do. I know the next step would be an appetite stimulant and anti-nauseant but really I don't want to have to force more pills into him. It is torture for him and is making me feel like an awful, horrible person...
I just don't know how far to go with treatment when it really won't fix him... how much is too much???