My poor cat is poorly, the vet has done a blood test and can find nothing really wrong. She wants to do a urine sample to rule out a few other things. We think she is about 13/14 as she was a stray when we got her about 12 years ago.
She has lost alot of weight over the past few weeks, now has stopped eating and drinking. She is very lathargic.
She just looks frail. :(
If its her time, I dont want to keep taking her to the vets and upsetting her, I would rather keep her at home in the hope she isn't suffering.
Vet is going to see her again tomorrow and try and get some fluids into her and maybe put her on a few days of anti biotics to help her should there be an infection. The blood test was so traumatic for her today, they had to keep trying as they couldn't get any from her.
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Do older cats, just give up and fade away?
BatteryOperatedBoyfriend · 14/06/2016 13:05
My last cat was 16 and over the course of about a fortnight had stopped eating and lost about 20% body weight. He also had a slightly runny/bloody nostril.
First trip to the vets ended up with long acting pain killers/anti inflammatories and an antibiotic. After no improvement we took him back and a skull X-ray showed a huge tumour. We put him to sleep while he was still sedated from X-ray. I couldn't bear the thought of waking him up to do anything else to him. He'd been lying around my house for two weeks telling me he was done. However, I'm glad we tried the antibiotics first, as it could have been a simple infection and he had a great quality of life right up to that point.
I think The vet will not pts if they think they can help is great advice. They really won't. At the same time, I think your cat would thank you if a couple of simple (perhaps unpleasant) tests found a treatable problem which gave her another good year. I don't think it's unreasonable to try and get to the bottom of the problem first.
My sick kitty hasn't been eating for the past few days. Strangely she's still hanging around her food bowls and begging for food. She just won't eat more than a mouthful or just licks the gravy off wet food.
Decided to try poaching some chicken breast for her and give it to her while stil warm. She gulped it down 
That's good that she's drinking You could try a simple broth to get her drinking lots? Boil up some chicken or fish bones.
She has just eaten some of the high energy food (Science Diet) which is good news. 
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Fingers crossed it keeps moving in this direction.
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