Hi everybody,
I'm dealing with a strange issue with my younger cat, Freya.
She's 15 months old, spayed, vaccinated, playful and affectionate.
She had been overeating or constantly looking for food for months, since she was about 4 months old and until a month ago.
She would pester us when we would eat lunch or dinner. She would put her nose and paws into pots, pans, dishes, glasses, stealing food of any kind, even foods that usually cats do not eat. For instance, I had to prepare a dish of green salad just for her. She had four meals a day, dry and wet, but she was never satisfied, and between two meals she would search the house to find anything to eat, she would open cabinets, doors, packages. I was desperate, even because she could have eaten something unsuitable for her. She also ate my eye glasses string and she took two days to pass it!
I discussed it with my vets and they told me she was growing and needed food, but I had never seen such an obsessed cat before.
I asked a vet if the acupuncture would have been a possible solution, and we tried, and it worked. We had 5 sessions of acupuncture, three of them were weekly, the fourth was two weeks after the third one, the last session was three weeks after the fourth one, on November 25th.
It worked, Freya stopped pestering us and destroying the house looking for food.
Unfortunately, now we have the opposite problem. Freya isn't eating anymore, she doesn't even ask me for food, she doesn't look for it, she doesn't look hungry. She spent most of the day sleeping and looking out the window. She isn't even interested in play anymore. Her favorite game was chasing the crumpled receipts, she would catch them and took them back to me so that I could throw at her again, but now she doesn't want to play anymore. Her eyes look sad, I would say she's depressed.
This has been a sudden thing. She stopped eating on Sunday, November 28th, three days after the last session of acupuncture. She refused her meals. I thought she wasn't hungry that day, though it was so unusual of her. The next day she didn't eat either, I thought she was disliking the food, so I tried different varieties that she had always scarfed down before, nothing. I bought different brands, but she isn't eating as she was eating before, she often turns away from her dish.
She does eat dry food, but I have to force her.
She isn't vomiting, she's using the litter box regularly, her coat is fine, her eyes are fine, I don't see anything strange or bad in her mouth. She just turned depressed and anorectic.
The vet says this can't be a long wake from the acupuncture, but I don't know what else it can be.
Furthermore, it seems she's always feeling cold. She tends to look for heat sources, like my lap or the heating radiator, where she lies flat between the radiator and the window sill. This is something that I discourage her from doing, but I can't always be with her.
My thought is that she might even be hypothyroid.
I will talk with the vets, though these days aren't the best.
Any advice is welcome.
Freya stuck between the radiator and the sill.
She isn't sad or scared in the photo, that's her usual look
I'm dealing with a strange issue with my younger cat, Freya.
She's 15 months old, spayed, vaccinated, playful and affectionate.
She had been overeating or constantly looking for food for months, since she was about 4 months old and until a month ago.
She would pester us when we would eat lunch or dinner. She would put her nose and paws into pots, pans, dishes, glasses, stealing food of any kind, even foods that usually cats do not eat. For instance, I had to prepare a dish of green salad just for her. She had four meals a day, dry and wet, but she was never satisfied, and between two meals she would search the house to find anything to eat, she would open cabinets, doors, packages. I was desperate, even because she could have eaten something unsuitable for her. She also ate my eye glasses string and she took two days to pass it!
I discussed it with my vets and they told me she was growing and needed food, but I had never seen such an obsessed cat before.
I asked a vet if the acupuncture would have been a possible solution, and we tried, and it worked. We had 5 sessions of acupuncture, three of them were weekly, the fourth was two weeks after the third one, the last session was three weeks after the fourth one, on November 25th.
It worked, Freya stopped pestering us and destroying the house looking for food.
Unfortunately, now we have the opposite problem. Freya isn't eating anymore, she doesn't even ask me for food, she doesn't look for it, she doesn't look hungry. She spent most of the day sleeping and looking out the window. She isn't even interested in play anymore. Her favorite game was chasing the crumpled receipts, she would catch them and took them back to me so that I could throw at her again, but now she doesn't want to play anymore. Her eyes look sad, I would say she's depressed.
This has been a sudden thing. She stopped eating on Sunday, November 28th, three days after the last session of acupuncture. She refused her meals. I thought she wasn't hungry that day, though it was so unusual of her. The next day she didn't eat either, I thought she was disliking the food, so I tried different varieties that she had always scarfed down before, nothing. I bought different brands, but she isn't eating as she was eating before, she often turns away from her dish.
She does eat dry food, but I have to force her.
She isn't vomiting, she's using the litter box regularly, her coat is fine, her eyes are fine, I don't see anything strange or bad in her mouth. She just turned depressed and anorectic.
The vet says this can't be a long wake from the acupuncture, but I don't know what else it can be.
Furthermore, it seems she's always feeling cold. She tends to look for heat sources, like my lap or the heating radiator, where she lies flat between the radiator and the window sill. This is something that I discourage her from doing, but I can't always be with her.
My thought is that she might even be hypothyroid.
I will talk with the vets, though these days aren't the best.
Any advice is welcome.
Freya stuck between the radiator and the sill.
She isn't sad or scared in the photo, that's her usual look
. But sometimes when I bring out new toppers, like freeze dried salmon, he digs right in, at least for one meal. 
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