Hi all. We have an elderly female cat who was a rescue, we’re think she’s now 16. She’s had multiple health issues - a heart murmur, which means the vet advised she should stay indoors, hyperthyroidism, which was initially treated with meds but she had a rare allergic reaction to those and ended up in intensive care needing a transfusion. She then had the radioactive iodine treatment and has been mostly fine the last three years. The vet advised special kidney diet. She had that in dry biscuits and half a pouch of wet food a day. The occasional lick e lick.
She’s on a decline I know, is thinner and more demanding. She hangs out by a radiator or shouts for one of us to pick her up. Still eating and drinking and happy on a lap. Some yowling but not often. We are now finding wet patches where she sits. Not urine as not smelly. No colour to them. Still using the litter tray, poos are small and hard. She sometimes bum shuffles and it’s usually a bit of leftover poo.
She hates the vet and we took a decision some time ago that she’s been through enough already. I don’t want her medicated unless in liquid form on her food.
Suggestions as to next steps? I don’t think it’s quite her time yet but I really don’t want to leave it too late.
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