Fatty you little bugger.

[Toddlerteaplease]

Came home from work this morning and thought Fatty looked quite unhappy. Sitting crouched up and then hid. (Normally she's all over me when I come in) wouldn't respond to treats being rattled. I'm getting very concerned and wondering about the V E T. Crack open a sachet of kitten food and the little bugger comes thundering downstairs and face straight in the food. Now sitting next to me grooming her self and purring!
You little madam, I need my sleep, stop giving me a scare!

Haven't found any yet, although there was water on the sofa but I think that was probably me spilling some of my glass!

I'm hoping we can reduce her frusemide at next check up. as her new medication also has a diuretic and I really think it's a bit much abs a whole tablet is quite large, meaning she has two large ones in the morning. Although I understand why she's on such a high dose. I think I will also say no to anymore medication in future. She's on enough and I'm very lucky she takes it so well.

Took her to the vets because of the sneezing and gunky eyes. She's lost more weight.
The vet has done more bloods to check her kidneys. I said if her kidneys are failing then I don't want treatment. Am unsure about renal diet, as Snorgles would have to eat it too. Abs she likes her current food.
In view of her heart,
If her kidneys are packing up would it be the right thing to say that enough is enough. While she is still well in herself and happy? She must not suffer or have a moments unhappiness in anyway.

She's not eating treats. (Unheard of) not eating. Kitten food. Also unheard of, she loves it. There has been sick on the rug nearly every day and she's been peeing in the hall.

Oh Toddler, I'm so sorry to read your update. I have no wise words but I wanted to say I'm thinking about you and the girls. Harry and I are sending you all love and purrs

The vet was taking about renal food but I'm not sure if it would be worth it.

If her kidneys come back ok then I'll ask the cardiologists advice on if it's the medication. She's ok but she's not quite right and probably hasn't been for about a week.

Has she been off colour before her meds were changed?

The girls are lucky to have you, give them both a stroke from me.

No I don't think so. The behaviour the cattery described sounded spot on for her. I,e being extremely bossy.

She's ok but she's not quite right if you see what I mean.

I’m keeping everything crossed that it’s the medication.

I know what you mean about not being quite right, I think you just know. When will you get the results of her kidney tests?

Hopefully tomorrow. Just looking back at photos of her and she looks awful compared to just a couple of weeks ago.

Fingers crossed for positive news tomorrow. I know when Harry’s had tests that the waiting is awful. I go through every scenario and usually pick the worst one.

Don’t know the background of your (gorgeous) cat, but just wanted to offer an insight into the renal food/failing kidneys.

Our cat (fiv positive 4 year old boy) went downhill and lost a lot of weight. Took him to the vets two weeks ago and they gave him a blood test. Was rung back half hour later saying he was incredibly ill and there was discussion about putting him to sleep as his kidney markers were so bad, and in turn this had led to him having hardly any red blood cells, incredibly anaemic.

Well after many tears we had a call from the senior vet the following day offering a kidney flush out procedure to remove toxins. The cat was in the vets for a day on an IV.

Two weeks on he is still with us and on a renal diet now. We have two others cats also and what we do is feed them each separate wet food before and after work, then leave the renal dry food down during the day for them all to pick at. They all love the renal food but it’s not ideal for “normal” cats to eat it as it doesn’t have the right nutrients. Also it costs an arm and a leg!

He’s still not going to recover in the long term, but he has certainly perked up since, brighter in the eyes, more energetic and his fur has got back to much better condition. He’s still skinny, but not as skeletal as he had been looking

Hope that helps in any way. Best of luck with it all

The lady who rescued her has got a lot of renal experiences ate it sounds like she's got high creatanine. And saying it can be managed etc etc. But I don't think it's fair to her to 'manage it'

That’s fair enough, you know your cat best. Hopefully your vet will have good news

With Harry our decisions depended on how it was going to be managed. The original plan (which we knew would fail!) was to give him renal food. When that didn't work we were given Pronefra to put in his food which we didn't have a problem with, but after a few days he wouldn't eat it.

The vet then wanted us to syringe the Pronefra into his mouth twice a day but with his jaw problems we weren't prepared to do that - we were worried about causing him more damage as his jaw is unstable. They then wanted to refer him to have his jaw investigated and either pinned or possibly the lower part amputated. This was a definite no as there was no way I was going to put him through that just so he could have the Pronefra. I'm not sure if the vet understood but to be honest I didn't care - that was beyond managing it, to me it would have been cruel.

Someone on here suggested I try him on Ipakitine which I did (I had to argue to get it from the vet) and he has it twice a day in his normal food. I know he's used up many of his nine lives but while he's happy and well we'll keep going, if things change we'll reassess.

What I'm trying to say (in a very long winded way) is there are various levels of managing, some are worth trying and some are a step too far.

BTW I'm not judging anyone's treatment of their cats, only going on my experiences with Harry.

Her head smells odd. And just realised that it's not the heat causing the litter tray to smell odd.

Could she have an ear or dental infection?

I don't think so. I took her to the vet as she's been sneezing and her eyes have been runny since going to the cattery. So she's had a shot of antibiotics and she's got some eye drops. Snorg keeps going for her so she obviously can sense something. I get a good look in her mouth most days while giving her her pills a d can't see anything.

Thomas absolutely stunk before he was treated. His fur was greasy and general smell about him. He still doesn’t smell amazing as bad teeth (another fiv thing) and kidneys can give halitosis

Just been to check on her. She's curled up on a corner behind the sofa. Not normal for her at all.