Hi, I have an apparently healthy 13yr old cat who has gradually been eating less and less over the last couple of months. She has happily been eating 2 particular brands and flavours of quality dry food for the last 10 yrs and never really liked wet food. I took her to the vet, teeth look pretty ok for her age (bit of gingivitis but no obvious inflammation), bloods done and no sign liver, kidney, pancreatitis, temperature normal etc. All attempts at buying in various new foods wet and dry have failed and some have caused upset gut (she has a good gut normally). She seems to want to eat and comes running if you put something in her bowl but just licks the gravy off wet food. She is alert and fine in herself but has already lost about 1/2kg.
The thing is the same thing happened when she was about 3yrs old. Ate minimal amounts for weeks on end and had full workup, abdominal scan etc, Nothing found and eventually she started eating a particular brand and that was 10yrs ago, no problems since - never needed vet in that time.
We had a cat with kidney failure before and she was very hard to feed when old but it appears this isn't the issue here. Anyone got any other ideas? She gets very stressed at the vet and I'm not even sure what they would do next apart from maybe sedating her to look at her teeth more carefully?
Anyway, sorry for essay but any ideas appreciated.
PS she is currently eating a little bit of the Royal Canin digestion wet food which the vet gave me - that they normally use to tempt cats after surgery (I hate giving her this as it has pretty much no meat in it, but this is the only thing that she seems interested in).