Hi guys
I haven`t been around much lately but could do with some advice from people who know about cats.
Maisie has gone right down hill over the last 3 weeks. She will now only eat tiny amounts of chicken, mostly I have to hand feed her.
She hardly goes to the toilet.
She hasn`t wanted to play for 3 weeks and seems generally uncomfortable and depressed.
She sleeps an awful lot, even for a cat!
Two weeks ago we went to the vets and he said she may have an inflamed stomach so she had the usual anti-biotic and anti-inflammatory injection. But she hasn`t really immproved so today we went back.
He said he could feel thickening in her bowel and she may have Inflammatory Bowel Disease and said that`s a pre-cursor (?) to cancer. Then he gave her an injection of a long acting steroid to see if that helped and I have to ring them next week and let him know how she`s doing.
My aim when I decided to keep her was to give her a loving, caring home with everything she wants for the rest of her life which I`d already guessed wouldn`t be too long but I`m thinking maybe that time has come.
The vet didn`t mention her being PTS but he said if she didn`t start eating now she would have to go in and be force fed. I hope this doesn`t sound weird but I don`t want to put her through that. She is old and frail and I want the end to be comfortable. Is that wrong?
Anyway, I`d be really glad if someone had any advice or experience.
I haven`t been around much lately but could do with some advice from people who know about cats.
Maisie has gone right down hill over the last 3 weeks. She will now only eat tiny amounts of chicken, mostly I have to hand feed her.
She hardly goes to the toilet.
She hasn`t wanted to play for 3 weeks and seems generally uncomfortable and depressed.
She sleeps an awful lot, even for a cat!
Two weeks ago we went to the vets and he said she may have an inflamed stomach so she had the usual anti-biotic and anti-inflammatory injection. But she hasn`t really immproved so today we went back.
He said he could feel thickening in her bowel and she may have Inflammatory Bowel Disease and said that`s a pre-cursor (?) to cancer. Then he gave her an injection of a long acting steroid to see if that helped and I have to ring them next week and let him know how she`s doing.
My aim when I decided to keep her was to give her a loving, caring home with everything she wants for the rest of her life which I`d already guessed wouldn`t be too long but I`m thinking maybe that time has come.
The vet didn`t mention her being PTS but he said if she didn`t start eating now she would have to go in and be force fed. I hope this doesn`t sound weird but I don`t want to put her through that. She is old and frail and I want the end to be comfortable. Is that wrong?
Anyway, I`d be really glad if someone had any advice or experience.