This came totally out of the blue: Minka's not eating.
I've had Minka for a little over a year now and she has never turned up her nose at here food. She's the perfect eater.
3 nights ago she suddenly didn't finish her dinner. The following morning she barely touched her breakfast, and had absolutely no interest in dinner. After not eating breakfast again yesterday I took her to the vet, thinking she might be constipated and not eating because of that. I had not seen any of her poops in over 24 hours at that point.
The vet checked her out and couldn't find anything abnormal, no constipation, no heart problems, nothing abnormal in her stomach, no dehydration. No cause either. He thinks the lack of input resulted in the lack of output.
Minka received an appetite stimulant (cyproheptadine (periactin)) in liquid form which I'm supposed to give her 30 minutes before feeding time. The first time seemed to work, she ate. At dinner time she promptly vomited after I administered the stimulant. This prompted my other cat to completely puff up (I guess cats are like humans and can't stand others to vomit
). About an hour later Minka ate, pooped and we were all happy
This morning, again no interest in the food on her own. I tried to give her the appetite stimulant, which missed the target almost completely and resulted in Minka spitting up foam and dripping from the mouth afterwards. I guess she's nauseous. Again Lulu freaked out, puffed up and growled at Minka. Strange!
An hour later I was able to finally give Minka the meds, but now it's more than an our later and she still hasn't touched the food.
I want to call the vet later, but I'm hoping to get some suggestions as to what might be going on, what I should ask him and what I should do with Minka in the meantime.
Please help
I've had Minka for a little over a year now and she has never turned up her nose at here food. She's the perfect eater.
3 nights ago she suddenly didn't finish her dinner. The following morning she barely touched her breakfast, and had absolutely no interest in dinner. After not eating breakfast again yesterday I took her to the vet, thinking she might be constipated and not eating because of that. I had not seen any of her poops in over 24 hours at that point.
The vet checked her out and couldn't find anything abnormal, no constipation, no heart problems, nothing abnormal in her stomach, no dehydration. No cause either. He thinks the lack of input resulted in the lack of output.
Minka received an appetite stimulant (cyproheptadine (periactin)) in liquid form which I'm supposed to give her 30 minutes before feeding time. The first time seemed to work, she ate. At dinner time she promptly vomited after I administered the stimulant. This prompted my other cat to completely puff up (I guess cats are like humans and can't stand others to vomit
This morning, again no interest in the food on her own. I tried to give her the appetite stimulant, which missed the target almost completely and resulted in Minka spitting up foam and dripping from the mouth afterwards. I guess she's nauseous. Again Lulu freaked out, puffed up and growled at Minka. Strange!
An hour later I was able to finally give Minka the meds, but now it's more than an our later and she still hasn't touched the food.
I want to call the vet later, but I'm hoping to get some suggestions as to what might be going on, what I should ask him and what I should do with Minka in the meantime.
Please help
