My dear old cat has been up and down for a few months now. She's being treated pretty successfully for hyper thyroid, and her blood tests are all coming back pretty much normal, but she periodically stops eating and drinking, and has to be rehydrated by the vet.
She gave up on Christmas Day, spent the night before last on a drip at the vets where she started eating again, but since she came back last night hasn't eaten anything or drunk for herself - I've managed to get a bit of water in by syringe.
A practical question to start with - does anyone know what quantity of water I should be aiming to get her to take? She's already beginning to look a bit dehydrated again to me, but there's only so much messing around with the syringe she will tolerate.
And I'd be really grateful for some help with how to approach this with the vet. I don't want to keep dragging her in and out as she does find it distressing, and if she's decided she's giving up, at some point one has to accept that - but I don't want her to be uncomfortable. The vet's tendency will always be to try to fix things, I suspect, and I wonder if that's necessarily always going to be in the cat's best interests?
Any thoughts about that, or about anything else I could do that would make her more comfortable, would be very welcome indeed.
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OhBuggerandArse · 30/12/2012 14:02
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