I am taking her to the vets on Friday. She is 13.5. I am thinking it is either kidneys, or hyperthyroidism .
I have another theory though - we lost our old boy cat back in June. Since then our girl seems to have changed in a few ways. We have started spoiling her more - instead of just the odd pouch of cat food and good quality dried as her main food, we've started giving her one pouch in the morning and leaving the dried out. However, she is constantly holding out on eating the dried in the hope we give her more wet (we don't). It is also Whiskas we give her which I (now) understand is the heroin of cat food and not the best quality! Could she have lost weight in her constant quest for the pouches? She does eat the dried eventually, under duress but her intake of it has reduced. She is far more obssessed with food than before (sounding more like hyperthyroid I suppose..)
Like I say, I am taking her to the vets and I'm sure they will recommend a blood test etc but I would far rather it may be behavioural than her kidneys or thyroid gland packing in .
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statisticsthicko · 16/01/2014 14:08
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