Hello,
My cat, Snowshoes, is 9 years old. Yesterday afternoon, she started losing her appetite. She ate only half of her favorite food. Later that night, she started laying around in odd places and just not acting as attentive as she normally does. I woke up this morning and found a few places where she spit up. It was clear / white with nothing in it ... and it wasn't much but there were numerous spots (around 4). About mid morning she vomited a couple times and it was brownish, again with no substance in the vomit.
She took it easy and laid down, and I let her rest for a few hours and by mid afternoon she was acting more attentive but she still hadn't ate or drank or gone to the box all day. She came back to lay in my bed, where she always sleeps, and she laid there til about 6pm. She got up and went to her water bowl and sipped a bit, and immediately threw up, again, brownish with no substance in it, and it wasn't much. She did that twice. So she went in the garage and laid down until now when I tried to get her to drink again, and she tried and she took a small sip and stopped, and started licking the air. a few times and walked off and went to lay back down.
Does this sound like a hairball obstruction? Normally this time of year she's coughing em up almost once a day, but she hasn't even coughed one up this season yet. She's a short hair but she does shed a lot during the spring and fall (I live in New Orleans, so spring is pretty early compared to most of the US). The drop off with her has been extremely dramatic. Tuesday she was completely normal ... running, jumping, angry with everything (she's very temperamental, I joke she's not happy unless she's mad), laying in bed with me ... just her normal self. Wednesday she seemed to be trying to go to the bathroom a lot but it didn't look like she had the runs or was really dropping a lot in the litter box.
I mean, even today she's not necessarily weak. She's walking fine, was able to jump on my bed on her own earlier, tail is generally up when she walks. I was feeling encouraged when she was wagging her tail to my voice when she was laying on my bed. But now with her strange reaction to drinking even a sip of water, I'm very worried.
I've already decided to take her to the vet tomorrow ... that's if there's one open on Good Friday. But honestly I'm just looking for a way to sleep tonight. Help me if the local vets decide to be closed tomorrow. That would be just my luck.
My cat, Snowshoes, is 9 years old. Yesterday afternoon, she started losing her appetite. She ate only half of her favorite food. Later that night, she started laying around in odd places and just not acting as attentive as she normally does. I woke up this morning and found a few places where she spit up. It was clear / white with nothing in it ... and it wasn't much but there were numerous spots (around 4). About mid morning she vomited a couple times and it was brownish, again with no substance in the vomit.
She took it easy and laid down, and I let her rest for a few hours and by mid afternoon she was acting more attentive but she still hadn't ate or drank or gone to the box all day. She came back to lay in my bed, where she always sleeps, and she laid there til about 6pm. She got up and went to her water bowl and sipped a bit, and immediately threw up, again, brownish with no substance in it, and it wasn't much. She did that twice. So she went in the garage and laid down until now when I tried to get her to drink again, and she tried and she took a small sip and stopped, and started licking the air. a few times and walked off and went to lay back down.
Does this sound like a hairball obstruction? Normally this time of year she's coughing em up almost once a day, but she hasn't even coughed one up this season yet. She's a short hair but she does shed a lot during the spring and fall (I live in New Orleans, so spring is pretty early compared to most of the US). The drop off with her has been extremely dramatic. Tuesday she was completely normal ... running, jumping, angry with everything (she's very temperamental, I joke she's not happy unless she's mad), laying in bed with me ... just her normal self. Wednesday she seemed to be trying to go to the bathroom a lot but it didn't look like she had the runs or was really dropping a lot in the litter box.
I mean, even today she's not necessarily weak. She's walking fine, was able to jump on my bed on her own earlier, tail is generally up when she walks. I was feeling encouraged when she was wagging her tail to my voice when she was laying on my bed. But now with her strange reaction to drinking even a sip of water, I'm very worried.
I've already decided to take her to the vet tomorrow ... that's if there's one open on Good Friday. But honestly I'm just looking for a way to sleep tonight. Help me if the local vets decide to be closed tomorrow. That would be just my luck.