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13 years ago, my dad rescued our cat Dusty. She was always small. We always considered her a runt. I used to jokingly call her pygmy. Of late, I've noticed her age begin to show. Her fur has become matted. She has taken to ripping patches of the matted fur off her body. I've noticed her vision is poor but its hard to tell how poor. She has always had bad issues with anorexia, though not much as of late. And today, she can began to drip blood from her mouth. I never saw the blood drop from her mouth myself - she keeps to a window sill every so often and I'd noticed today that she was spending an abnormally long time at the window sill. As a barn cat, she's rather jumpy and skiddish. She rarely stares in the same place for more than five minutes unless sleeping, which she wasn't. That's when I noticed the drops of what looked like blood on the window sill. They were dried by the time i saw them. Then about 15 minutes ago, I saw a fresh drop. Earlier in the day I'd investigated and couldn't find where the blood was coming from. I saw a few posts on her describing similar incidents and the bleeding coming from the mouth. My parents and I couldn't figure out why the blood wasn't present anywhere on her body. Finally I picked her up again and she was particularly fussy about her mouth. I got a good enough look to ascertain that it was her mouth. She has in the past few years picked up excessive drooling, but I hadn't considered that possibly a symptom of something more. Several of these point to FIV but not conclusively (there are several of the red flag symptoms per my online research that she doesn't necessarily have - weight loss is hard to track because she's never weighed more than a feather no matter what we fed her). I was wondering/hoping others here could chime in about their experiences with a similar set of symptoms. I would love to be disproven and affording a vet visit is unlikely, not to mention the anxiety it would inflict on our Dusty.
