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My cat was prescribed Cerenia for profuse vomiting, I gave her half a pill of 24mg dose yesterday and since then she has refused to eat her food. I put the pill in a pill pocket and added it to her kibble and I'm afraid she associates that with the pill. Has Cerenia caused loss of appetite in your cats? Any tips on how to get her to eat? She did eat 3 Temptation treats just now and but that's all she's eaten in about 16+ hours.
Background: my cat is 4 years old and on Saturday she started throwing up everything she was eating and even could not keep even water. She hadn't lost her appetite at that point but seemed too tired to eat by Sunday evening and so on Monday morning I took her to the ER. Vet did bloodwork and X-rays and found 2 ovoid objects in her stomach which when they did endoscopy turned out to be balls of food and they said they were able to break them apart during the procedure. She was given fluids overnight and injected with Cerenia the next day on Tuesday and sent back home. They believe its gastroenteritis but could not specify a cause, she tested negative for pancreatitis and rest of her results all came out normal. I was told to give her half a pill of Cerenia once a day for a few days and monitor her appetite. Once back from the hospital she was hungry and ate all the little amounts of kibble I gave her on Tuesday night and even on Wednesday morning, while grazing a little (she is NOT a grazer usually), ate the small amount of kibble I gave her. It only started when I tried many different ways to get her to take the pill (she wouldn't have it the pill pocket as a treat, I crushed it in her wet food and she didn't like that and then I finally got her to take the pill disguised in her kibble after she got very hungry at 1 PM.
Since then she hasn't been eating or drinking at all, all she has done over the past few days is look at birds for hours out the window or lay on the cat tree like she is depressed or something. I'm really worried for her, she was found abandoned in a carrier by the shelter so she absolutely hates the carrier - it stresses her out and I can not take her to the ER constantly because of it. Besides because of her abandonment anxiety she will not eat at the hospital at all, no matter how hungry she is. I don't want her to starve, I thought of getting Forti Flora from Chewy but even that would take a couple of days to get delivered, out local PetCo does not have it and I don't have a car to travel far. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!!
My cat was prescribed Cerenia for profuse vomiting, I gave her half a pill of 24mg dose yesterday and since then she has refused to eat her food. I put the pill in a pill pocket and added it to her kibble and I'm afraid she associates that with the pill. Has Cerenia caused loss of appetite in your cats? Any tips on how to get her to eat? She did eat 3 Temptation treats just now and but that's all she's eaten in about 16+ hours.
Background: my cat is 4 years old and on Saturday she started throwing up everything she was eating and even could not keep even water. She hadn't lost her appetite at that point but seemed too tired to eat by Sunday evening and so on Monday morning I took her to the ER. Vet did bloodwork and X-rays and found 2 ovoid objects in her stomach which when they did endoscopy turned out to be balls of food and they said they were able to break them apart during the procedure. She was given fluids overnight and injected with Cerenia the next day on Tuesday and sent back home. They believe its gastroenteritis but could not specify a cause, she tested negative for pancreatitis and rest of her results all came out normal. I was told to give her half a pill of Cerenia once a day for a few days and monitor her appetite. Once back from the hospital she was hungry and ate all the little amounts of kibble I gave her on Tuesday night and even on Wednesday morning, while grazing a little (she is NOT a grazer usually), ate the small amount of kibble I gave her. It only started when I tried many different ways to get her to take the pill (she wouldn't have it the pill pocket as a treat, I crushed it in her wet food and she didn't like that and then I finally got her to take the pill disguised in her kibble after she got very hungry at 1 PM.
Since then she hasn't been eating or drinking at all, all she has done over the past few days is look at birds for hours out the window or lay on the cat tree like she is depressed or something. I'm really worried for her, she was found abandoned in a carrier by the shelter so she absolutely hates the carrier - it stresses her out and I can not take her to the ER constantly because of it. Besides because of her abandonment anxiety she will not eat at the hospital at all, no matter how hungry she is. I don't want her to starve, I thought of getting Forti Flora from Chewy but even that would take a couple of days to get delivered, out local PetCo does not have it and I don't have a car to travel far. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!!