Amber wouldn't eat Sunday

[---MIKE---]

For some reason, Amber refused to eat on Sunday. She spent the whole
day on her heated window perch.I tried to give her an appetite pill but
she spit it out three times. This morning she ate a normal breakfast.
She really had me concerned.

---MIKE---
>>In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
>> (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

[Bobble]

twinmo...@webtv.net (---MIKE---) wrote in news:15845-4B0A8748-261
@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net:

I've had that with each of my cats over the years and never figured it out.
Every so often a cat will go off somewhere and sleep 24 hours straight,
then wake up ok as if nothing had happened. I used to get worried, but now
I wait a day, and sure enough, all is fine.

Bobble

[Joy]

"---MIKE---" <twinmo...@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:15845-4B0...@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net...

They do like to scare us, don't they? I'm glad she seems okay today.

Joy

[---MIKE---]

She wouldn't eat Monday evening and then threw up. This morning she
went to her food dish three times but wouldn't eat. I have a vet
appointment for 10 AM.

[bastX...@sonic.net]

---MIKE--- wrote:

> She wouldn't eat Monday evening and then threw up. This morning she
> went to her food dish three times but wouldn't eat. I have a vet
> appointment for 10 AM.

I hope she's OK! Please keep us posted.

Joyce

--
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living
creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of
worthless human lives.
-- Albert Schweitzer

[MLB]

TuTu has a day like that from time to time. If it continues, I'll give
her a dose of Laxatone or Petromalt. After a
bm her appetite returns. Some days are just like that. Good luck. MLB

[---MIKE---]

The vet did a blood panel (at my request) and it showed a low white
blood cell count. She had no temperature. The vet gave her an
antibiotic shot and I have to bring her back tomorrow for another. The
blood panel showed that all her organs were within the normal range
which eased my mind a lot. She still hasn't eaten anything . Hopefully
she will eat in the morning.

[Gandalf]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:59:52 -0500, twinmo...@webtv.net (---MIKE---)
wrote:

I'm sorry I missed your post, yesterday.

Kenzie did the exact same thing: didn't eat on Sunday OR Monday.

Like you, I was really, really worried. Kenzie is well into being a
senior citizen cat, now.

I got her to drink a little water from a can of tuna, but she wouldn't
eat a sardine, her very favorite treat, OR any tuna, (which I would not
normally give her).

I decided to take her to the vet on Monday, but when I called, it was
too late to get an appointment :(

The emergency vet is SO expensive, and she didn't act sick at all; she
just wasn't eating :(

Monday evening, I decided get some hairball treatment, and I gave her a
good dose of it, though she virtually NEVER gets hairballs.

Overnight, Monday to Tuesday, she ate a LOT of her regular kibble.

I canceled the vet appointment.

I doubt she had a hairball; I think her tummy was just upset.

I wish I knew why, though.

Just like you don't know why Amber wouldn't eat :(

What are the 'appetite pills' you use for Amber?

~~~~~~~~~~~~ >^..^<

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

[---MIKE---]

Gandalf asked:

>What are the 'appetite pills' you use for
> Amber?

Cyproheptadine 4mg. 1/2 tablet once daily. These came from my vet.
They didn't help this time because Amber kept spitting the pill out.