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Our 10 year old male cat stopped eating, and drinking about a wk ago. He has also stopped relieving himself, I assume because he has nothing to relieve. We noticed him drooling excessively, with a foul odor that could be smelled feet away. We rushed him to our veterinarian. They checked his temp, no fever, did some blood work, nothing out of the norm, and did some xrays.The vet saw nothing to explain his symptoms aside from being dehydrated and what she explained was a smaller than usual liver. He has a preexisting bladder/crystal condition. We were given Metronidazole and he received sub q fluids and sent home. Once we got home he drank a large amount of water, licked some of his canned food and used the litter box once. The following day he still was not eating, drinking, relieving himself but had stopped drooling. We took him to an emergency vet hospital. The vet noticed he had a fever (103) and was again dehydrated. The vet wanted to do an ultrasound, and a hospital stay, which we declined as the price was $3600 (we had already spent $1400 for the tests we had done). We recently adopted a kitten that ended up having a respiratory infection when we brought him home. The er vet noticed an ulcer like abnormality on our cats tongue. He suspects our ole guy has Calicivirus so we received some more sub q fluids, some pain meds, antibiotics, and appetite stimulants. That was 24 hrs ago. Since then our cat still has not eaten much tho he will lick small amount of his wet food and will eat his whiskas temptations cat treats. No drinking and still no use of the litter box. We have been force feeding him a mixture of his urinary food and water. Im concerned about his quality of life at the moment. Im wondering if anyone has had any experience like this with this virus or perhaps its something more serious? Im just at a loss. I have no idea what to do. We have exhausted all of our funds and been to the vet 5 times in the last week. Any advice?? Im desperate at this point.