I am pretty sure my cat is dying :cry: . She is 24 years old (that compares to 135 for people) so we have been expecting it. She has lost close to 1/2 her body weight over the past 6 months or so. Now she is getting dehydrated. We took her to the vet a few days ago & are all pretty sure it is kidney failure. When a cat dies of old age it is almost always the kidneys that quit first.
I have lost 3 cats to kidney failure in past 8 years so I know it well. The fist 2 we put down when the quality of life deminished. The third died on my lap quite peacful 2 years ago.
This cat, schrodinger, whom we lovingly call fatty, fat cat, queen fatima, her royal fatness, fat-a-posimus. fat-a-saurus, etc still has good quality of life at this point. We love the heck out of her & someone is always petting her.
Poor thing had 4 incontenant episoded in the past 7 days where she wakes up & then gets this look on her face like "Oh crap, I am laying in pee." We wash her up & she goes on her way. Her apetite has decreased so she is now on a special canned food that is supposed to help w/ the dehydration & apetite.
She is a total inside cat, we take her out in the yard maybe 1x a month for 20 minutes but she would never go out on her own. She insisted on going outside today 3x to lay in the sunshine. I thought for sure she was looking for a place to die. Anyway... I don't think she has long.
Image shack is down right now but I will try & post a couple pictues later tonight.
I have lost 3 cats to kidney failure in past 8 years so I know it well. The fist 2 we put down when the quality of life deminished. The third died on my lap quite peacful 2 years ago.
This cat, schrodinger, whom we lovingly call fatty, fat cat, queen fatima, her royal fatness, fat-a-posimus. fat-a-saurus, etc still has good quality of life at this point. We love the heck out of her & someone is always petting her.
Poor thing had 4 incontenant episoded in the past 7 days where she wakes up & then gets this look on her face like "Oh crap, I am laying in pee." We wash her up & she goes on her way. Her apetite has decreased so she is now on a special canned food that is supposed to help w/ the dehydration & apetite.
She is a total inside cat, we take her out in the yard maybe 1x a month for 20 minutes but she would never go out on her own. She insisted on going outside today 3x to lay in the sunshine. I thought for sure she was looking for a place to die. Anyway... I don't think she has long.
Image shack is down right now but I will try & post a couple pictues later tonight.