I have a very old, completely wild feral who has lived on my property for years. She is fixed, but has remained untrappable, or I guess I should say retrappable, under any circumstances. I did go and get the fish net as was recommended before, but have not tried to use it yet due to her hypervigilance. I cannot touch her at all. Long story short......
I suspect kidney issues, not necessarily diabetes, who knows what else. She probably does not have a lot of time and when the window of opportunity presents itself I will definitely take her to the vet to be humanely released. In the meantime, she stopped eating, so I began to feed Gerber's Stage 2 jarred meats, along with some organic jarred chicken baby food. I have tried to intersperse real wet cat food in the meantime, but I do suspect that she is holding out for the baby food to a degree, and I don't begrudge her that after all these years. In other threads, I did note the names of some wet foods that other members have used to try to wean cats off the baby food.
I read yesterday on a cat kidney disease website that the jarred human baby food does not contain all the necessary supplements, particularly taurine, and that this lack can lead to blindness and other problems. The writer recommended supplementing by hand....has anyone done this? Is there a decent cat all in one supplement that anyone recommends? My personal indoor pet cats will not touch anything which is supplemented, not that they need to, but I mean any med put into food, etc. Do the problems created by the lack of taurine possibly take longer to cause complications than this cat has left on earth?
I suspect kidney issues, not necessarily diabetes, who knows what else. She probably does not have a lot of time and when the window of opportunity presents itself I will definitely take her to the vet to be humanely released. In the meantime, she stopped eating, so I began to feed Gerber's Stage 2 jarred meats, along with some organic jarred chicken baby food. I have tried to intersperse real wet cat food in the meantime, but I do suspect that she is holding out for the baby food to a degree, and I don't begrudge her that after all these years. In other threads, I did note the names of some wet foods that other members have used to try to wean cats off the baby food.
I read yesterday on a cat kidney disease website that the jarred human baby food does not contain all the necessary supplements, particularly taurine, and that this lack can lead to blindness and other problems. The writer recommended supplementing by hand....has anyone done this? Is there a decent cat all in one supplement that anyone recommends? My personal indoor pet cats will not touch anything which is supplemented, not that they need to, but I mean any med put into food, etc. Do the problems created by the lack of taurine possibly take longer to cause complications than this cat has left on earth?