Please help-Starved cat

Human heating pads on a cat so frail can easily cause burns to already compromised skin. If he is inside the home, be sure the room he is doesn't have any drafts of air. You can fill soda pop bottles with hot water, wrap those with towels and tuck them around him, but not on him. Or take some old socks, fill them up with rice, tie the ends and microwave the socks for about 30 seconds.

Look at your home as a comfort station. Perhaps you will be the last kind face this unfortunate creature will see before he passes. Perhaps the care and love and attention you show him will give him the courage he needs to battle whatever is wrong. If you can get him to the vet that would be the best course of action. Even if he does get to the vet, it might be to late. You just never know and you just do the best you can under the set of circumstances you find yourself in.


Good luck to him and to you~

Thanks guys. I have some good news. He's eaten about 2 teaspoons of food through a syrenge, not much, but from the little bit he ate yesterday and threw back up I didn't want to push it. So far he's kept it down. He's a fighter. He'll get up and walk around a little, let you rub him...he adores it. He'll smell of the food a little but he wont attempt to eat any. Off to the vets in the morning. Keep him in your thoughts. Thanks again...you guys are awesome!

Build him a cave to sleep in. You can use a cardboard box flipped on its side draped with a towel, soft bedding inside with enough space for the cat to slide under the towel and lie down. You can use a cat carrier with the door removed (if he will go inside of it) I am betting you put enough soft bedding in there, he just might. They like cave-like dwellings when they are NDW (not doing well) Good luck at the vets

It is hard to tell what the underlying problem is with your kitty. It could be anything from the dreaded FIP to something he ate. Including all that pink stuff under your trailer. That is more then likely fiberglass insulation, which could be deadly to an animal if they ingested it. I would be like swallowing tiny shards of glass. But It's critical to get nutrition and liquids into a cat who is severely malnutritioned like that, no matter how he got that way. One of my cats recently quit eating because of stress and inflammed bowel. It only takes 2 days of not eating or eating very little, for it to affect a cat's liver. Look inside his ears and the whites of his eyes. If they have a yellowish look then the cat is in trouble and probably has fatty liver (which would be secondary to whatever else is going on with him). I'm sorry but... Without IV fluids and antibiotics, it is not real hopeful. One thing I can tell you to try is syringe feeding. Puree' canned food with some water in a blender and feed it to the cat in a syringe or a dropper. The syringe is easiest. It still may not work. You'll have to get an awful lot of food and water in him throughout every day to save him (a lot more then 2 teaspoons). My cat went in for 3 days of IV fluids and antibiotics or he would have died within a couple of days. After the 3 day vet stay, I had to syringe feed him until he started eating well on his own. I also mixed nutrical with the canned food and water to put some weight on him a little faster. He had gone from 10.2 lbs to 5.8 lbs. That was in October. He's now about 9.5-10 lbs and doing well.

Please keep us posted. I'm in tearing just reading about what the poor thing is going through. You are a very loving and caring person. Bless you and him.

Well Nile, I can see that there are two fighters here, you and him.

You are doing so well, how proud we all are of you. Please keep us updated on our kitty and we will do all we can to encourage and help you.

Hugs and kittykisses from KittenKiya's Clan.

I second what KittenKiya said. I have my fingers crossed that your boy will be fine.

Hey Nile, how is he doing? Hopefully things are better with him.

The cat was supposed to go to the vet today, I think, from what I could understand from the posts.

I hope she or he lets us know something.

Any updates yet?? My keyboard was on the fritz, so I couldn't post it, but I have adding my {{{prayers and vibes}}} to yours. I get so worried when I don't see updates; I think that our young poster may be too sad to write; hopefully, I'm wrong and s/he is just too busy....

I've been anxiously awaiting an update, too.

Add me to the waiting list. I've been following this thread (lurking) since it opened and have been sending healing vibes along with all of yours ... I hope everything is alright.

Me too, this poster was so worried, and now they are not posting. I do hope that nothing bad happened.

Add another person to the worried list. I hope this is a case of "no news is good news".

I hope so too

Had another waiting on news. This is so sad. I wanna fly out there and help!

Nile? Please talk to us. No matter what's happened, we are here for you. If you need a shoulder or two, we have many here.

Are you OK?

Nile, sweetie. Please let us know how your boy is doing.

Nile hope all is well? You are in my prayers...g'night. I will check back here tomorrow.

I just read this thread and I hope the little guy is doing better I know how u feel our indoor/outdoor baby was missing for a month and some one took him to the rescue and we got him back but when we did he was skin n bones literally but u couldnt tell cause he is a long haired orange baby, and he is also 11 years old, it took some time (we too didnt have money for the vet but we still are taking him when we do to get checked up on) and it is still taken some time at first he barely ate, but now he is eating a few times a day I have to help him to feed him and when he came he couldnt walk and now he is walking and everything, I gave alot of attention and time caring for him and made him feel so loved which he is very in this house and now he is jumping somehwat, but he still cant reach were the food is so i do have to help him, but u have to have a lot of patience and help him do whatever he needs, the first few days i had to help willie get in the litter box, i hardly slept and when I did it was with him, he is still pretty skinny but we are giving him about 3 cans of wet food a day because its easier for him to chew and digest although he is eating dry but I just try to make him as comfortable as I can, U have to just stay positive and think positive !!! Is there any update, I hope theres good news, it might take some time for a starving kittie to get back into the swing of things willies been back since january 11 and well there are improvements at first he would nibble for a minute like u said ur boy was doing so I hope that u guys were as fortunate as us like u said hes a fighter !!!!! Just keep positive !!!! Thats what I did and like I said I did around the clock care as well, so i am keeping u guys in my prayers and I am keeping my fingers crossed I hope that when u update its good news, just remember that we are here for u no matter what !!!!!! Remeber just have hope, everyone thought my willie wasnt going to make it and hes still here, we were also afraid to go to the vet because we didnt want him to get PTS and he pulled through and so if u guys went to the vet I hope all did well please update soon!!!!