If anyone has ANY advice what so ever, I would gladly appreciate hearing from you. My cat is 13 years old, and he is generally an outdoor cat who sleeps inside at my feet on the bed. He eats indoors, but does all his business out of doors. As of lately, his behavior has changed. He has become very clingy, wanting to be with me all the time. He even comes and sleeps up by my head. He walks around all day long, restless, meowing. He seems to want to eat, but when he begins to eat, he suddenly gets frightened, meows aggressivly and runs off. Also he has had 2 poopy accidents in the bathroom, and they were runny. I have heard that when in pain, animals don't know how to deal with it, and they try to run away. This has caused me to look at his mouth to see if it is painful for him to eat. He does indeed have black spots all along his gums, which I have noticed there for a long while. So I took a can of tuna, mixed it with water and pulverized it in the food processor to a consistancy of a thick shake, and voila.. he ate it! Any comments on aging, diseases of the mouth or anything else would be very welcome. Thank you, ~Curley