It has been a horrendous weekend. Very sadly one of our cats (been treated for hyper t for 3 years aged 16) became poorly on Friday not eating or drinking and just laying about. We took him to vet and he was admitted and put on IV antibiotic drip and fluids. He started having horrendous diarrhoea at vet and the antibiotics that should have cleared up any infection did not work. Despite intially perking up he did not really start eating or drinking again. The vet suspected it might be something more sinister due to the diarrhoea that started over weekend and the 1 kg weight loss in last 2 months (though this may have been hyper t not being well controlled).
Our other cat (brothers, don't particularly get on but have been with each other whole life and at least sleeping in same room etc) has definitely been out of sorts since Saturday - drinking a bit but eating very little (he is big fat cat). Small amount of diarrhoea in litter tray in morning. Do you think he may be being affected by missing other cat - is this a thing? and how do you improve things? or do you think he may have something and needs to see someone. Will need new vet as not going back to where we took other cat.
It’s all been very upsetting the last few days as you can imagine. Has anyone lost one cat which immediately affected the other one? Thank you.
Finally just to say this is not due to the weed killer the idiot gardeners sprayed in garden on Saturday as kept the cat which is still at home in until Sunday lunch.