For those of you that have a difficult cat with eating, how do you manage? Do you just say "screw it" and the cat eats or starves depending on what it wants that day? Regardless of the consequences? Or give them X number of days of difficulty before it's a vet visit? Or do you try and coax them into eating?
I ask this b/c, as has been well documented here, I've been struggling to get my girl to eat for over a year and it just wears me out. Some days are borderline tolerable. Not good, not acceptable, but tolerable b/c she is cooperating and eating w/o much fuss. But most days are a fight and honestly the companionship is not worth the effort. But she gave me 9 good years before this "mid life crisis" of hers and she's family so we've got to find a way through this. I can honestly say if she was a new cat to me she would have gone back or something at this point but we have 9 years together so here we.
Just curious how some of you handle the mental toll of a difficult cat around feeding or potentially some other behavior.
I ask this b/c, as has been well documented here, I've been struggling to get my girl to eat for over a year and it just wears me out. Some days are borderline tolerable. Not good, not acceptable, but tolerable b/c she is cooperating and eating w/o much fuss. But most days are a fight and honestly the companionship is not worth the effort. But she gave me 9 good years before this "mid life crisis" of hers and she's family so we've got to find a way through this. I can honestly say if she was a new cat to me she would have gone back or something at this point but we have 9 years together so here we.
Just curious how some of you handle the mental toll of a difficult cat around feeding or potentially some other behavior.