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Hi all
My girlfriend's senior tom, Leo, was diagnosed with cholangiohepatitis (Liver inflammation / bacterial infection / supporative) - due to a complete lack of appetite, he stopped eating entirely and after a few days of syringing food she made the decision to put in an esophagal tube to allow easier feeding and medicating. He's doing very well and put weight back on up to almost his previous side, eating on his own now (for the most part) and his doctor thinks we can get him off medications by next week.
The problem we're running into now is that he is snubbing almost every food other than salmon and tuna based wet food. Everything else, he may eat once and only a little of it, then not again. This is a cat that used to eat anything given to him - beef, chicken, turkey, duck, etc, etc. Any ideas of what we could try next? She doesn't want to keep feeding him nothing but fish, and I agree, don't want him to end up with too high mercury levels or kidney issues after his illness is sorted out.
Thanks in advance!
My girlfriend's senior tom, Leo, was diagnosed with cholangiohepatitis (Liver inflammation / bacterial infection / supporative) - due to a complete lack of appetite, he stopped eating entirely and after a few days of syringing food she made the decision to put in an esophagal tube to allow easier feeding and medicating. He's doing very well and put weight back on up to almost his previous side, eating on his own now (for the most part) and his doctor thinks we can get him off medications by next week.
The problem we're running into now is that he is snubbing almost every food other than salmon and tuna based wet food. Everything else, he may eat once and only a little of it, then not again. This is a cat that used to eat anything given to him - beef, chicken, turkey, duck, etc, etc. Any ideas of what we could try next? She doesn't want to keep feeding him nothing but fish, and I agree, don't want him to end up with too high mercury levels or kidney issues after his illness is sorted out.
Thanks in advance!