Betsy is 4. She was recently diagnosed with feline herpes which manifests primarily as sneeze attacks with a little coughing. But since I started her on twice a day lysine she's literally sneezed twice, and had no sneeze attacks. She seems to be asymptomatic of the herpes right now.
I usually give her the herpes meds after her food but this I ended up giving it to her at a different time in the wee hours when we both woke up, before her breakfast.
She is acting totally normal, but I noticed that she hasn't pooped today even though she ate twice. She isn't displaying any symptoms of constipation other than the fact that I just don't see any poop in the box.
I am physically disabled and sometimes when we clean out the whole box we find I've missed 1-2 lumps over the time since the box was cleaned so there may be a lump in there I am missing.
She seems happy, healthy, and is eating and drinking. (She drank after getting the herpes paste. She normally doesn't drink a lot but I give her wet food for every meal to compensate for that. But she also drank this morning.) The only thing is I am pretty sure she hasn't pooped.
I won't have help with her again until tomorrow evening so I can give her wet food (that is accessible to me) but I can't give her any other stuff like extra tuna or oil which I looked up as a poop remedy for cats. I might be able to get a friend to come over in the morning to help me do that, but as my schedule stands now I wouldn't be able to until tomorrow evening.
This is a small factor but she just got a new cat tree and may be so excited about it it could effect her in some way? I don't know. But she seems totally normal--eating fine, playing, drinking, ZERO puking or other constipation symptoms. But this is the first time that there hasn't been poop in the box in a 24 hour period. Any thoughts?
I usually give her the herpes meds after her food but this I ended up giving it to her at a different time in the wee hours when we both woke up, before her breakfast.
She is acting totally normal, but I noticed that she hasn't pooped today even though she ate twice. She isn't displaying any symptoms of constipation other than the fact that I just don't see any poop in the box.
I am physically disabled and sometimes when we clean out the whole box we find I've missed 1-2 lumps over the time since the box was cleaned so there may be a lump in there I am missing.
She seems happy, healthy, and is eating and drinking. (She drank after getting the herpes paste. She normally doesn't drink a lot but I give her wet food for every meal to compensate for that. But she also drank this morning.) The only thing is I am pretty sure she hasn't pooped.
I won't have help with her again until tomorrow evening so I can give her wet food (that is accessible to me) but I can't give her any other stuff like extra tuna or oil which I looked up as a poop remedy for cats. I might be able to get a friend to come over in the morning to help me do that, but as my schedule stands now I wouldn't be able to until tomorrow evening.
This is a small factor but she just got a new cat tree and may be so excited about it it could effect her in some way? I don't know. But she seems totally normal--eating fine, playing, drinking, ZERO puking or other constipation symptoms. But this is the first time that there hasn't been poop in the box in a 24 hour period. Any thoughts?
She is my seventh cat but this is the first time I am in charge of everything so I have new parent jitters and anxiety. Whee.
