My cat, Nancy, has a chronic skin condition.
This means she often has large sections of skin - currently from the underside of her chin all the way down and across the whole of her chest - that are red raw from constant licking and scratching.
And I really mean red raw. It's just weeping and partly bloody skin. No fur at all. It must be very painful.
We then go through a long cycle of fortnightly steroid injections and steroid cream.
Over several weeks it will get slowly better and then she might have a few days or weeks before the whole cycle starts again.
No vet (and there have been several) has got to the bottom of it.
She also has neurological issues - she always has but they've got worse so she's often confused and will sit and cry or she'll go somewhere and then it's like she forgets anywhere else exists?
So she'll go to a bedroom and then stay there in the exact same spot for 24 hours (she'd be there longer if we don't find her).
She's just been missing for 3 days and it turns out she was in a neighbours outside glass collection box lying on top of their empty bottles and she'd just been there for 3 days. We'd seen her come back for food and drink which we'd put outside for her but otherwise she just lay on top of the bottles basically looking depressed or perhaps demented?
That being said, when you pet her she purrs so loudly and right now is curled up on my lap.
The neighbour (who has seen her lying in her bottle box!) have implied it's time to PTS due to quality of life.
The vets are not really giving a view one way or the other.
So how do you measure a cats quality of life in this kind of situation?
Would you PTS?