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As I sit and watch the remembrances on TV today of all the people who lost their lives in the tsunami a year ago, and during Hurricane Katrina and earthquakes in Pakistan, it makes our plight seem insignificant. However, for two people with a docile, soft, and beautiful cat who had to make the...

Boxing Day morning. And I need some more advice from you good folks. Just talked to the vet. Marsha and I are going to the clinic in an hour. She's being brave and wants to see Willow for the first time in 3 days. As you can imagine it's been hectic for the vet. He's been closed for the past...

Marsha's husband here... Christmas Day! Went to the clinic and timed it right. The vet was there, but Willow is not doing well. I'm trying to absorb all this information... She's keeping the food down that he has been force feeding her. That's good. He doesn't know why her glucose went up to...

Thanks Pat & Alix. I read that article. Let's hope it hasn't come to that. I went to visit the vet. Willow was very placid and weak. She hasn't eaten any of the dry or wet food he has left out. Doesn't surprise me. The vet has force fed her several times. She is keeping her food down. That's...

Thank you again for staying with me on this. I live in Thompson, Manitoba. 500 miles north of Winnipeg and 600 miles east of Saskatoon. The next vet is in The Pas, 250 miles from here. But I have confidence in my vet now. He's doing his best and phoning me daily to tell me the latest... Willow...

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. We are struggling with this big time! I hope you can follow this thread for a while. We will be coming back here for advice again. Willow was overnight at the vet. He called me today and gave me a lot of info. I'm trying to digest it all... She has...

Last week she was on 2 units and after staying at the vet's for 4 days and doing blood tests, he reduced it to 1 unit per day. When she came home, she was lively and looked like she was starting to eat again. But in the past few days she has lost her interest again. We're back to trying...

It's been a frustrating and stressful last two months! Thanks to you who answered our previous questions. http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...941#post965941 6 year old Willow has gone from eating dry food anytime, to eating nothing at all, to being diagnosed with diabetes, to trying to get...

Our biggest challenge is the fact that Willow is eating very little. All the diabetic food she doesn't like. She slurps up some of the wet pastes, but not enough. We've found one dried food that she likes, but it's got a lot of carbs in it vs protein. We've tried 20 different foods in the past 3...

First of all a big THANKS to all of you who posted on this thread over the past few weeks. http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...7&page=4&pp=12 There was a lot of good advice to parents (no kids) who never had a cat problem until now. After several trips to the vet and our Willow down to 6...

Hissy, Yes she is drinking water. GailC, yes we tried baby food, canned pumpkin and everything everyone mentioned here. We took her to the vet (4th time in 6 weeks). It was a new vet who was substituting for our regular guy. He could find nothing wrong either. We are waiting now for the 2nd...

Carol, Yes, Diabetes was the first thing that the vet considered, but was ruled out after further tests. She now seems to eat a new dried food for a few days and then lose interest. Then we find another one that she will eat for a few days and then lose interest. Our kitchen is overrun with...

Hi there. This is Marsha's husband. First of all, let me say THANKS to all of you involved in this website. It has been a huge help in giving us options and the links to great information. It's been a stressful time over the past few weeks. The situation with Willow has improved. Since her...

I hope someone is still following this thread. :-) Took Willow to the ONLY vet in town again. He took XRays. Took another blood test and sent it out to the nearest lab (500 miles away). He gave her an enema. All her internal organs looked fine. He said her stomach was empty (of course), but her...

She has gone to the vet. He is going through a second round of blood tests. We have seen him twice and nothing abnormal has shown up yet. There is only 1 vet in our town. I have confidence in him. Blood tests get sent to a lab 500 miles away. Yesterday she ate about 10 kibbel treats by coaxing...

ScamperFarms, As I said, we've tried that today with little results. How do you force feed? What do you give? How often? I just need to know, please. :-) (Don't know why it says KITTEN under my name. Willow is 6 years old!)

This morning looked better. She ate about 5 regular kibbels and 5 dried treat kibbels. It was a start. I brought different foods home at lunch - she licked mushy tuna. But didn't touch baby food, pate, canned pumpkin. This evening she vomited what little is in her tummy. Now she is sitting...

We will try different soft canned foods tomorrow. And report back. Please stay tuned. Thank you! :-)

She ate about a total of only 10 dried kibbels today. Then she walks away from her food bowl and goes and sits in front of the cupboard with the dried treats. We put 5 of those out and she ate them. Is there any harm in giving her more dried Whiskas treats? If she wants to eat those, does that...

Thanks for your replies. We only have 1 vet in our small city. Willow won't even eat her regular food. How do you force feed a cat? How long can/do you force feed?