Hey, all!
I'm at my mom's for the holidays and posting because we're worried about our older cat. She is 17 and a half, usually fed dry but has been eating wet lately. Everything is amazing on the blood test.
My mom brought her in for something she had and I don't remember what but she had antibiotics. Since she had diarrhea they gave her something for stomach discomfort. A few weeks later and she still appears to have bad stools so she goes back and the vet does a blood test. The only worrisome symptom apart from the digestive discomfort is that she lost a full kg over the course of the year (= a little over 2 pounds), but everything else is fantastic. He gives us corticosteroids for inflammation in case she has one in her digestive tract and another pill for stomach discomfort. She takes them well, gobbles up her food and I feed her as often as she wants.
The cat still has some stool issues (I cleaned quite a bit of mushy poop off her butt this morning), but it's hard to monitor because she's been staying outside a lot. She drinks a lot, has a very good appetite. Isn't it weird that she drinks so much (despite the wet food we've been giving her) in spite of her tests being so good?
The other thing is that her behavior has changed a lot. Her meows are different (squeaky), she looks a lot more her age now (weird eyes, awkward standing), she will not let us comb her anymore (she's long haired unfortunately) and, more importantly, she doesn't want to stay inside anymore. She wants to be outside, even if the other day she was curled up in a grumpy half-ball on the wet dirt. Today she made an effort and went on the couch outside but usually she stays half-lying on a cold surface.
Tonight we're trying to keep her inside, but she's a little erratic. She relaxed now after I stayed with her a little bit, but my mom keeps telling me that before all of this she'd stay on my mom's bed.
Have you noticed this kind of behavior in your senior cats, too? She's always been a little wilder than the others, but she was being sweet and comfy with my mom until a month ago or so. She doesn't seem to be in pain, she just looks... weird. Any thoughts?
I'm at my mom's for the holidays and posting because we're worried about our older cat. She is 17 and a half, usually fed dry but has been eating wet lately. Everything is amazing on the blood test.
My mom brought her in for something she had and I don't remember what but she had antibiotics. Since she had diarrhea they gave her something for stomach discomfort. A few weeks later and she still appears to have bad stools so she goes back and the vet does a blood test. The only worrisome symptom apart from the digestive discomfort is that she lost a full kg over the course of the year (= a little over 2 pounds), but everything else is fantastic. He gives us corticosteroids for inflammation in case she has one in her digestive tract and another pill for stomach discomfort. She takes them well, gobbles up her food and I feed her as often as she wants.
The cat still has some stool issues (I cleaned quite a bit of mushy poop off her butt this morning), but it's hard to monitor because she's been staying outside a lot. She drinks a lot, has a very good appetite. Isn't it weird that she drinks so much (despite the wet food we've been giving her) in spite of her tests being so good?
The other thing is that her behavior has changed a lot. Her meows are different (squeaky), she looks a lot more her age now (weird eyes, awkward standing), she will not let us comb her anymore (she's long haired unfortunately) and, more importantly, she doesn't want to stay inside anymore. She wants to be outside, even if the other day she was curled up in a grumpy half-ball on the wet dirt. Today she made an effort and went on the couch outside but usually she stays half-lying on a cold surface.
Tonight we're trying to keep her inside, but she's a little erratic. She relaxed now after I stayed with her a little bit, but my mom keeps telling me that before all of this she'd stay on my mom's bed.
Have you noticed this kind of behavior in your senior cats, too? She's always been a little wilder than the others, but she was being sweet and comfy with my mom until a month ago or so. She doesn't seem to be in pain, she just looks... weird. Any thoughts?