quick update

[erastes]

Just nipping off to Dad’s – I’m not staying long, just have lunch and then come home, probably. Not even taking the laptop with me.

Lili is a little better. She’s alert, and she’s been drinking both yesterday and this morning, but she’s definitely feeling sorry for herself, sitting all hunched up and she won’t eat anything. Being a really fussy cat, it’s impossible to tempt her with food at ANY time, she’ll never eat from my fingers, and she won’t touch any food made for people. (It makes me laugh when vets say “let her have some chicken and rice tomorrow” – ha ha ha ha.) So I’ll just keep an eye on her—she’ll go back to the vet tomorrow if she hasn’t eaten anything by then, and hopefully they’ll give her an appetite stimulant, that seems to be the usual course of events.

I carried her downstairs (to her complaints) and she’s now sitting in her spot next to the radiator, which is good to see, at least she’s not hiding herself away, which is always a worry with animals. The sun is out, too, so when it comes to the window sill I’ll see if I can get her to go and sit in the sunshine, as that’s something she loves.

Cat’s . A Worry. Can’t live with ‘em. Can’t eat ‘em.

Comments

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

Well, technically, they're made of meat. It probably tastes kinda catty, though.

Glad she's doing at least a little better! Poor, picky baby.

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that Lili is doing better, and hope she starts eating again soon.

[ejab62.livejournal.com]

Good to know she's somewhat better but they haven't found the cause of the blood vomitting then?

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Oh sweetie! I am so sorry about Lili and hope she is feeling better soon. It makes me sad after everything I went through with Thunder a few months ago:( I hate to see anyone else go through worries with their cat.

♥

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Do cats taste good with pickle? Enquiring minds want to know

[wikdsushi.livejournal.com]

Only one way to find out!

I'm, uh, out of pickles. Can someone else volunteer?

[aishabintjamil.livejournal.com]

I've had good luck with mine when they're feeling poorly and uncertain about eating by offering them a jar of meat baby food. It's a trick my vet suggested.

It's essentially meat water and little corn starch, thoroughly pureed. They can lick it up nearly like water. In the US they sell it in convenient but expensive little jars. It never occurred to me to wonder until I started writing this if they sell it the same way in England.

It's the only thing one of my older guys will eat now. He's got a squammous cell carcinoma on his tongue which there's nothing we can do about, so we're just hanging in there as long as he still seems comfortable.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, they sell baby food here - we are quite advanced now, nearly all of our cities have electricity! LOL. Thank you - I'll pick one up tomorrow and see what happens, but she's the pickiest eater on the planet. I'm going to put some butter on her paws now - that might get the juices flowing - and it will also help line her stomach.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've heard it tastes just like rabbit - and the only way you can tell them apart is to examine the ribs - one has flat ribs and the other have rounded ones - although which is which I don't know. She's still feeling sorry for herself, and consequently, so do I.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try her with a little butter, it's the only thing she will eat on a good day.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No - they won't start doing expensive tests on a first visit (and sensibly so) - after all they might do tests and then the cat gets better. I dare say they'll suggest something after a few visits - I assume they will give her an appetite stimulator tomorrow.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should have had her vomiting checked out but I've always equated vomiting with cats, so didn't think it might be anything more serious like a tumour or an ulcer. Let's hope not! Thanks dear.

[aishabintjamil.livejournal.com]

Sorry, didn't mean it to sound like I didn't think you were civilized over there. I visited in the late 80's and very much enjoyed it. Someday there will be enough vacation time available to get back, and maybe this time I'll be brave enough to drive.... I loved Wales, where we spent much of our visit.

But we didn't really have occasion to go grocery shopping, so I have no idea how things are packaged over there. I'm just feeling a bit unsafe in making assumptions that the same things are for sale everywhere just because they're common here.

I recently asked an Israeli co-worker what kinds of over-the-counter pain relievers were common there (background detail for a story), figuring I'd get a brand name or two and have a little more realism. He looked at me funny and and said if he was sick he'd go to the doctor to get medicine. After looking at each other like space aliens for a few minutes he commented that stores selling an array of remedies for things like colds or headaches aren't common there. There's one on every block here. So now I've gotten very leery of making assumptions.

[moon-chylde.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear there's some improvement. I tend to worry myself silly whenever one of my crew is ill so I understand where you're coming from.

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

Might be a stubborn hairball. I haven't had that with these two, but one of my prior cats had a LOT of hairball issues.

Does she eat kibble? The same cat with the hairball problem had a lot of digestive issues and we had to stop letting her eat kibble which turned out to be the thing causing most of her digestive troubles.

I'm hoping it's something simple.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

she used to only eat kibble, but she developed cystitis and the vet recommended wet food only, which she's settle down to. It could be furballs - she's still not eating so definitely the vet tomorrow morning.