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Yeah, that's a definite possibility. She actually just ate a few bites a few moments ago. I'm feeling slightly more hopeful but it still wasn't all that much that she ate, so I'm going to keep watching. This is turning into a bit of a rollercoaster. I feel like it's most likely a stomach bug. ...

Awesome - all fantastic names! My Starbuck is named after the BSG character as well. I considered Apollo - I think it's a great name, but the character bugged me a bit so I didn't want to go with that heh.  Unfortunately, I may have spoken too soon re: Starbuck being out of the woods. She was...

So far, so good! She's still pretty pissed at me for the whole ordeal, particularly after I took her band-aid off, but she'll get over that soon, I'm sure. 

Just got back from the vet. Her physical exam was clear, although she's definitely a fighter so they couldn't manage a full oral exam. They gave her a an anti-nausea med, some sort of appetite enhancer and they took some bloodwork. The vet said that in her experience often the trip to the vet is...

Thanks, I really appreciate your getting back, and your advice. I always feel like I am overreacting to this sort of thing. I had thought she was improving, she went to her bowl and ate twice and kept it down. But I just looked at the bowl and she couldn't have eaten more than a few pieces. I'm...

Haha wow, that's rough - not at all confidence-inspiring, I would imagine. I had one vet at the same place I go to now who gave me a very long lecture about how dry food was like living on a diet of cereal, which was certainly when I redoubled my efforts to switch to wet food. But she didn't...

I'm sorry, I have no idea why I kept quoting you - my brain is just not working right now! I think it was just out of habit. 

Well she just started eating... I kind of want to wait and see if she keeps it down. I will go google this, but any idea how long it takes for a cat to digest food? Do you think it's still worth taking her to the vet if she keeps it down? If she's eating, that's great, but it was still very...

Thanks so much for the links - I will check them out asap. I definitely need to look into a low carb/high protein/grain free type food, working on that now. I can't quite remember what the vet said re: calories. She said 1/2 cup of the science diet per day. Every time I've tried to calculate the...

I called back, got an appointment with my vet for early afternoon today. Do you think it's still worth grabbing some random cat food at the grocery store and seeing if it helps? It's only a few hours away, so probably not. I strongly suspect you are right about the nausea. I have never seen this...

Awesome! I will check out Merrick, and I'm doing some googling/perusing of the forum to get a sense of what the other legitimately good brands are (is blue mountain one of them? I've definitely seen that mentioned around here).  I have always felt a little sketched out by the brands the vets...

I told the person I spoke to on the phone that she had thrown up once. I had forgotten about it until he asked, so I may not have done a good job of communicating it. I don't know whether he was a vet tech or what level of knowledge he had. My impression is that all of the people who work there...

Thanks - I'll try both of those. I forgot to mention that she kinda sorta threw up yesterday. It wasn't substantial, it was clear, just bile or something, with a single piece of food in it. That had already happened by the time I woke up yesterday morning. For a while she was throwing up...

I do wonder if for whatever reason she just doesn't like this food anymore, or this bag. she stuck her face in the bowl and even started to bite a piece of kibble, then just stopped and walked away, but she keeps circling around the food. I'm going to run over to safeway and grab whatever they...

Luckily, she hasn't had any health issues so far, aside from being overweight, but I can't blame that on science diet. I'm pretty sure she was still on purina when that started (but it seemed to be more about her getting spayed). Is Merrick Backcountry available for cats as well? I'll look into...

That's a great suggestion, thank you! My vet was pushing science diet (calling it Hill's), Purina, and Iams, so that was definitely a red flag for me, and why I came here after I hung up the phone. The vet in Ohio did the same thing, pushing their own in-house brand of diet food or something. I...

She's about 4. I hear what everyone is saying re: wet cat food. I know how important it is, but for the life of me I just have never been able to get her to eat it. I'm sure to a certain extent she and I have played chicken with her waiting until I give her the food she wants and me trying to...

Good morning everyone! I'm getting pretty concerned because my cat, Starbuck, has not eaten since at least around midday yesterday. I'm about 80% sure that she ate the night before (the 10th), I'm not sure whether she ate yesterday morning. She is a regular ole tabby cat, about 4 years old, very...

Hey - thanks for the info! it's dry food. I've never been able to get her to eat wet food. But I just got a new bag of the same stuff and for some reason she doesn't seem to be going for it. I'm not sure whether she ate yesterday morning but she hasn't beaten since then. She keeps sniffing the...

So my cat is very overweight, and very inactive at this point. I have been trying to implement several of the standard strategies with little success: 1) active play; 2) active/hunting food dispenser (one of those plastic balls); 3) a vet-recommended restricted calorie intake. She was always...