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Elderly cat with kidney disease - how can I tempt her to eat?

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Ihaventgottimeforthis · 07/04/2023 13:56

My girl is 15 and with CKD, but last week or so has really gone off her food.
She's always been fussy, but now I'm struggling to find anything she will eat. I've got a vet appt next week and will ask for prescrip food but need something she will eat as I guess she will reject that.
I need new ideas! She wants food but not what I give her.
Dry food is ignored.
I've tried all sorts of wet food - she will eat some gravy pouches at a push or the little gourmet tins occasionally.
She's now rejecting sardines, tuna, cooked beef, she has cooked chicken now and barely looked at it.
Fish shop fish she'll eat a little.
Dreamies she'll eat a few.
She'll eat those meat treat sticks but are they too rich for CKD?
Suggestions welcome!

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RandomMess · 10/04/2023 12:47
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Mercurial123 · 10/04/2023 12:55

Ihaventgottimeforthis · 10/04/2023 12:46

Well I was up at 2am hand feeding her leftover roast lamb! She is very vocal at night, how does no one else in my house wake up...
So after her roast dinner, she drank from my sink for about ten minutes, had a massive wee and emptied the litter tray over the floor, then had an extremely noisy play session with a bit of paper. She's not played like that for years, I love to see it but it's bitter sweet.

Does she have hyperthyroidism? My cat goes racing around the house at 5am and meows loudly in my ear at 3am. If I ignore her, she turns up the volume until she gets what she wants (usually Temptations).

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