we took our 13 year old, Mouse, to the vet today. he's lost about 1 to 2 pounds in the last month and starting to loose his appetite in the last couple days.
he had a bout with jaundice 3 years ago and had a feeding tubefor 2 month but he's over all that.
my husband feeds them all wet food every morning at 5am when he gets up to go to work. Mouse sleeps between us all night and i usually know when he gets up, eats, uses litterbox and then comes back to bed and goes back to sleep right next to me. for the last couple mornings he hasn't gotten up for that. when it happenend again this morning i got up after my husband left, openend up another can and took it to him on the bed and set it right in front of him and he ate a little bit, then stopped and started to lick his lips and didn't eat anymore. i made a vet appt. for this afternoon. the vet said he's a little congested in the chest and his teeth needed cleaning. it's been 4 years since his last dental. another thing too is his breath never smelled bad at all but in the last 3 weeks it changed and doesn't smell good at all. i thought maybe an abcessed tooth or something like that but the vet didn't see anything like that. he gave him a shot of cortizone and B vitamins. he's got an appt for 4/12 for a dental and the vet also put him on 1cc 2xdaily of Pecmycin and 1 1/2cc 2x daily of Albon.
Mouse's behavior otherwise is as usual and he doesn't have any diarreah nor is he vomiting.
but just now as i tried to get him to eat something he sniffed the food and then turned away and started licking his lips again. i have never seen or heard of a cat doing that and it's got me worried.
any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Connie
he had a bout with jaundice 3 years ago and had a feeding tubefor 2 month but he's over all that.
my husband feeds them all wet food every morning at 5am when he gets up to go to work. Mouse sleeps between us all night and i usually know when he gets up, eats, uses litterbox and then comes back to bed and goes back to sleep right next to me. for the last couple mornings he hasn't gotten up for that. when it happenend again this morning i got up after my husband left, openend up another can and took it to him on the bed and set it right in front of him and he ate a little bit, then stopped and started to lick his lips and didn't eat anymore. i made a vet appt. for this afternoon. the vet said he's a little congested in the chest and his teeth needed cleaning. it's been 4 years since his last dental. another thing too is his breath never smelled bad at all but in the last 3 weeks it changed and doesn't smell good at all. i thought maybe an abcessed tooth or something like that but the vet didn't see anything like that. he gave him a shot of cortizone and B vitamins. he's got an appt for 4/12 for a dental and the vet also put him on 1cc 2xdaily of Pecmycin and 1 1/2cc 2x daily of Albon.
Mouse's behavior otherwise is as usual and he doesn't have any diarreah nor is he vomiting.
but just now as i tried to get him to eat something he sniffed the food and then turned away and started licking his lips again. i have never seen or heard of a cat doing that and it's got me worried.
any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Connie
