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Hi, I think you're on the right track here, unless there's some hidden health issue going on - and I sincerely hope not!We did start putting her food bowl further away from him and have tried feeding both where she normally eats and in an entirely separate room. We usually close Arlo's door now when she's eating as to not add any stress.
I'm so glad to hear she is eating more. We think of stress as always coming from negative situations. Enjoyable/happy experiences can also create stress and it sounds like this was her situation.we have narrowed her hunger strike down to stress
I just want to say I'm in the same boat and a nervous wreck and losing my mind upset and stressed about my young cat. I have a feral kitten in my foster room for 8 days now. My kitty Broccoli has been in there a few times and hisses and is very upset she is there and runs out. I probably shouldnt have let him come in the first time.. he stopped eating yesterday morning and is lower energy too. He has eaten a meat tube, freeze dried chicken, and his vital essentials nibbs but wont eat any wet food. The vet said he looked great today and if he isnt eating tomorrow then sedated xrays and blood draw. I'm so nervous I cant handle it. It seems behavioral to me but weird it would happen a week later. I also do snub him a little because i try to socialize my feral so I'm in the bedroom closed in a lot of my free timeThank you for linking these! We've tried warming up the food, trying different brands of wet food, fortiflora, canned tuna water, but there are a few others that we haven't tried that I'll try tonight.
I think we also have to take her back to the vet to get blood work done. This really is an incredibly stressful mystery.
First of all, I love the name Broccoli. Secondly, I am sorry you're going through this! It is so stressful.I just want to say I'm in the same boat and a nervous wreck and losing my mind upset and stressed about my young cat. I have a feral kitten in my foster room for 8 days now. My kitty Broccoli has been in there a few times and hisses and is very upset she is there and runs out. I probably shouldnt have let him come in the first time.. he stopped eating yesterday morning and is lower energy too. He has eaten a meat tube, freeze dried chicken, and his vital essentials nibbs but wont eat any wet food. The vet said he looked great today and if he isnt eating tomorrow then sedated xrays and blood draw. I'm so nervous I cant handle it. It seems behavioral to me but weird it would happen a week later. I also do snub him a little because i try to socialize my feral so I'm in the bedroom closed in a lot of my free time
Thank you.First of all, I love the name Broccoli. Secondly, I am sorry you're going through this! It is so stressful.
Our cat stopped eating like 3-4 days after we brought Arlo home, so we were also confused as to why it was delayed. While on some level for us it was a relief that Luna was medically cleared by the vet, in other ways it was more stressful because it didn't have a specific "fix". And it was a frustrating cycle because if a cat doesn't eat, they feel nauseous which makes them not want to eat which makes them even more nauseous. After almost 3 or 4 days of Luna barely eating, what worked for us was bringing the cats together. The night we decided to let them interact in the same room was the night that she started eating again on her own. While this worked for them, I know most conventional wisdom recommends separating two cats and moving even slower when there are issues, so I'm hesitant to suggest to anyone to try this because it could cause more damage. But I will say that you are not alone in going through this, and it got so much better quickly! One Luna started eating again, she was back to her old self in twoish days.