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My cat stopped eating two days ago. Yesterday I noticed he was walking funny. And then this morning he couldn’t walk at all.
We took him to the vet and the vet said all his vital signs were normal, his blood tests and urinalysis canoe back fine, and then suggested we give him antibiotics, fluids, and an appetite stimulant.
It’s been almost five hours since then and nothing has changed in my cat. He is dragging himself around but is really struggling to do so. I don’t want to see him like this. He is old. He still won’t eat. I don’t want it to keep him alive if he is suffering...but I can’t tell if he is. He’s always been the one to sleep all day only to eat or use the bathroom. He can’t get into the litter box so he’s been going on the floor but I don’t care about that. I feel like he’s so weak just from not eating. I know something is causing it but I want to see if he can get any better just from eating.
So this brings me to my actual question- can I force my cat to eat? Feed a little gravy in a syringe to get something inside him? We gave him the appetite stimulate already but he’s still uninterested in food and water. Water I’m not as worried about since he has that fluid poicj
We took him to the vet and the vet said all his vital signs were normal, his blood tests and urinalysis canoe back fine, and then suggested we give him antibiotics, fluids, and an appetite stimulant.
It’s been almost five hours since then and nothing has changed in my cat. He is dragging himself around but is really struggling to do so. I don’t want to see him like this. He is old. He still won’t eat. I don’t want it to keep him alive if he is suffering...but I can’t tell if he is. He’s always been the one to sleep all day only to eat or use the bathroom. He can’t get into the litter box so he’s been going on the floor but I don’t care about that. I feel like he’s so weak just from not eating. I know something is causing it but I want to see if he can get any better just from eating.
So this brings me to my actual question- can I force my cat to eat? Feed a little gravy in a syringe to get something inside him? We gave him the appetite stimulate already but he’s still uninterested in food and water. Water I’m not as worried about since he has that fluid poicj