Jenni
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Hi all! I need advice again. Iniko, an F3 who is 5 1/2 months old, has basically stopped eating. She was in heat earlier this week, so I wasn’t overly concerned then, but that cycle seems to have passed and she is still not interested in eating. She has been a notoriously picky eater, so it has been difficult to figure out if this problem is food related or something else (especially since she is 100% normal & crazy energetic otherwise), but when I did finally get her to eat on Friday she started vomiting the food up hours after she ate.
I took her to the vet yesterday because of the lack of appetite, vomiting, and I could see that she lost weight (she has lost 1/2 pound in less than a week); I was worried about a possible obstruction. They ran tests, took X-rays, and found nothing. The fecal did show parasites, so they treated for that and also gave her a fluid bubble to flush her system.
When I got her home she actually ate some roasted chicken once she calmed down! She ate two small plates of that (the last plate was around 5pm yesterday, but she hasn’t eaten since. As I mentioned earlier, she is acting perfectly normal, but not eating and the subsequent weight loss is very scary. I have tried everything short of giving her mice or chicks to get her to eat (even the freeze dried chicken -aka “kitty crack” - doesn’t work).
I am very worried that her eating habits are going to cause a problem. I’ve never dealt with intestinal parasites, is this something that just takes some time to clear up (and perhaps I am overreacting)? Should I try mice or chicks to see if that stimulates her appetite? I’ve joked with my husband that maybe this is just her way of making sure I stay home with her and give her 100% of my attention .
I took her to the vet yesterday because of the lack of appetite, vomiting, and I could see that she lost weight (she has lost 1/2 pound in less than a week); I was worried about a possible obstruction. They ran tests, took X-rays, and found nothing. The fecal did show parasites, so they treated for that and also gave her a fluid bubble to flush her system.
When I got her home she actually ate some roasted chicken once she calmed down! She ate two small plates of that (the last plate was around 5pm yesterday, but she hasn’t eaten since. As I mentioned earlier, she is acting perfectly normal, but not eating and the subsequent weight loss is very scary. I have tried everything short of giving her mice or chicks to get her to eat (even the freeze dried chicken -aka “kitty crack” - doesn’t work).
I am very worried that her eating habits are going to cause a problem. I’ve never dealt with intestinal parasites, is this something that just takes some time to clear up (and perhaps I am overreacting)? Should I try mice or chicks to see if that stimulates her appetite? I’ve joked with my husband that maybe this is just her way of making sure I stay home with her and give her 100% of my attention .