Hi everyone,
I have a 13 year old cat with Triaditis and a heart murmur. He gave up dry food and is super fussy with his wet food. He won’t eat any of the healthier foods or sensitive stomach ones that are clearly better for him. He’s on prednisone every second day for over a year and we have tried managing the illness with the other meds recommended but none help. In the last month he’s been waking me up at 3,4,5 and 6 in the morning until I get up and feed him. If I don’t get up he has begun wrecking things in the house. I shut all the bedroom doors and put away all bread and papers (he rips apart mail left out, cards and envelope) he will rip the paper off the plastic muffin container, rip up gift bags basically anything he can get his teeth or paws on. He will also meow very loudly if I don’t respond which wakes everyone up. I now shut all doors as he also jumps up on things and knocks things over if I don’t get up and feed him. I can’t shut my door as he scratches it and can’t put him downstairs as he will scratch the door and my son sleeps down there. The vet has zero options and isn’t giving me any direction. We can’t live like this but I feel like if I put him to sleep I’m doing it for bad behaviour but this is really impacting everything in our house. He is always hungry and doesn’t absorb what he eats. He does throw up ever couple of days and his litter box is quite foul I though about trying to crate him at night but wonder if that is more of a punishment than a solution. He’s lost quite a bit of weight and is fairly boney now but still loves to cuddle up with me which is making it really hard to figure out if I need to try more things or if this is just his time and I need to let him go.
I should add that the last thing we tried is gabapentin but he’s still the same.
I have a 13 year old cat with Triaditis and a heart murmur. He gave up dry food and is super fussy with his wet food. He won’t eat any of the healthier foods or sensitive stomach ones that are clearly better for him. He’s on prednisone every second day for over a year and we have tried managing the illness with the other meds recommended but none help. In the last month he’s been waking me up at 3,4,5 and 6 in the morning until I get up and feed him. If I don’t get up he has begun wrecking things in the house. I shut all the bedroom doors and put away all bread and papers (he rips apart mail left out, cards and envelope) he will rip the paper off the plastic muffin container, rip up gift bags basically anything he can get his teeth or paws on. He will also meow very loudly if I don’t respond which wakes everyone up. I now shut all doors as he also jumps up on things and knocks things over if I don’t get up and feed him. I can’t shut my door as he scratches it and can’t put him downstairs as he will scratch the door and my son sleeps down there. The vet has zero options and isn’t giving me any direction. We can’t live like this but I feel like if I put him to sleep I’m doing it for bad behaviour but this is really impacting everything in our house. He is always hungry and doesn’t absorb what he eats. He does throw up ever couple of days and his litter box is quite foul I though about trying to crate him at night but wonder if that is more of a punishment than a solution. He’s lost quite a bit of weight and is fairly boney now but still loves to cuddle up with me which is making it really hard to figure out if I need to try more things or if this is just his time and I need to let him go.
I should add that the last thing we tried is gabapentin but he’s still the same.
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