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I had about 3 pages of responses back to Sassy's appetite recently dating back to December of 2020 around the last time I had posted.
As of July 2021, in short, she has maintained this schedule of eating nearly every 3-4 hours. Not sure if it was determined because of her age or if it was a signal for me to take her to the vet - I opted not for visit vet in the months after because she wasn't looking sick and just seemed scattered on and off days. Over time, from January of this year and about until March, I figured this is just her new self, of eating more frequently but smaller quantities throughout the day, still totaling her approximate calorie intake as it was prior where she was just eating 2-3 times a day at most. Now its about 6-7 times a day, including and painfully overnight where she'd wake me up each time around 2am, 5am and then 8am approximately to eat...It's been tough but hanging in there. This is my first elderly cat so still not 100% sure if this is the norm for an older cat but I've accepted it since my last thread post about this issue since I didn't see any other health issue arise other than smaller meals more frequent eating. Now a days, she still may have an off day or two consecutive like maybe once a month, but overall she seems fine. Even with the loss of my other cat last November, she has surely taken command as being the lone cat - she greets us at door coming back from work, especially me. She follows me everywhere even sits next to me at dinner time and sleeps on my dinner table chair too! She has been definitely much more vocal then back in past with other cats being around. She used to be so quite, but now she cries for attention and such, its like a reinvigorated cat. The transformation/change of her since Charlie's passing is shocking, a complete 180 difference from being such a quite and sleepy cat to walking around freely, sleeping where she wants and such.
Now I had also posted maybe about 2 years ago or so about some skin inflammation issue she had. We took her to the vet and was deemed as skin abscess I believe. All I recall was vet examined her, drained the pus out and just gave us some cream to put into that hole that was left. She had a cone on as well for few weeks which was quite stressful. Over time it healed rather slowly...to the point where I stopped checking after maybe a month or so because her hair had grown further around the area and no hole was left to be seen. Vet had mentioned it probably took a while to heal because of her age and that the skin would heal from inside out. So that part made sense as the hole slowly filled out. Attached pictures with 2019 name are the pics of her healing back then.
Now yesterday I was brushing her, and felt a lump in that area. Upon closer look, I noticed it was that hole area again but this large yellowish/black lump shiny was seen sticking out from hole but it was like 99% detached? It looks rather disgusting and it did come out as I used a qtip to remove it. Then I saw her fresh skin under that ball and where her abscess was once before and now looks like a crater. Not a deep hole...but a crater and I guess the new skin that regenerated back then filled in? I never paid attention in the past year or so and she never really licked it or scratched it. Back in 2019 it was more noticeable because it was red, much large swelling and alot more hair was missing and pus was coming out. this time I tried squeezing out with qtips that crater gently but nothing comes out. So now I'm not sure what that yellow ball was or how it formed but it was definitely connected to that crater of her previous abscess and was just about to comes out probably from the brushing.
Any thoughts? Do such abscess recur? I'd take her to vet but I didnt notice any swelling, just her skin seemed like kinda torn around that crater and was probably forming to that yellow mass that was coming out already. The 2021 pictures are from today and the 2019 is from when the first issue arose with swelling and pus.
Thank You
I had about 3 pages of responses back to Sassy's appetite recently dating back to December of 2020 around the last time I had posted.
As of July 2021, in short, she has maintained this schedule of eating nearly every 3-4 hours. Not sure if it was determined because of her age or if it was a signal for me to take her to the vet - I opted not for visit vet in the months after because she wasn't looking sick and just seemed scattered on and off days. Over time, from January of this year and about until March, I figured this is just her new self, of eating more frequently but smaller quantities throughout the day, still totaling her approximate calorie intake as it was prior where she was just eating 2-3 times a day at most. Now its about 6-7 times a day, including and painfully overnight where she'd wake me up each time around 2am, 5am and then 8am approximately to eat...It's been tough but hanging in there. This is my first elderly cat so still not 100% sure if this is the norm for an older cat but I've accepted it since my last thread post about this issue since I didn't see any other health issue arise other than smaller meals more frequent eating. Now a days, she still may have an off day or two consecutive like maybe once a month, but overall she seems fine. Even with the loss of my other cat last November, she has surely taken command as being the lone cat - she greets us at door coming back from work, especially me. She follows me everywhere even sits next to me at dinner time and sleeps on my dinner table chair too! She has been definitely much more vocal then back in past with other cats being around. She used to be so quite, but now she cries for attention and such, its like a reinvigorated cat. The transformation/change of her since Charlie's passing is shocking, a complete 180 difference from being such a quite and sleepy cat to walking around freely, sleeping where she wants and such.
Now I had also posted maybe about 2 years ago or so about some skin inflammation issue she had. We took her to the vet and was deemed as skin abscess I believe. All I recall was vet examined her, drained the pus out and just gave us some cream to put into that hole that was left. She had a cone on as well for few weeks which was quite stressful. Over time it healed rather slowly...to the point where I stopped checking after maybe a month or so because her hair had grown further around the area and no hole was left to be seen. Vet had mentioned it probably took a while to heal because of her age and that the skin would heal from inside out. So that part made sense as the hole slowly filled out. Attached pictures with 2019 name are the pics of her healing back then.
Now yesterday I was brushing her, and felt a lump in that area. Upon closer look, I noticed it was that hole area again but this large yellowish/black lump shiny was seen sticking out from hole but it was like 99% detached? It looks rather disgusting and it did come out as I used a qtip to remove it. Then I saw her fresh skin under that ball and where her abscess was once before and now looks like a crater. Not a deep hole...but a crater and I guess the new skin that regenerated back then filled in? I never paid attention in the past year or so and she never really licked it or scratched it. Back in 2019 it was more noticeable because it was red, much large swelling and alot more hair was missing and pus was coming out. this time I tried squeezing out with qtips that crater gently but nothing comes out. So now I'm not sure what that yellow ball was or how it formed but it was definitely connected to that crater of her previous abscess and was just about to comes out probably from the brushing.
Any thoughts? Do such abscess recur? I'd take her to vet but I didnt notice any swelling, just her skin seemed like kinda torn around that crater and was probably forming to that yellow mass that was coming out already. The 2021 pictures are from today and the 2019 is from when the first issue arose with swelling and pus.
Thank You
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