Past 6 days Sabby has been really weird! He is a year year old neutered tabby tom who has been FeLV+ since he was 3 months old (he was rechecked three or four months later) so we are guessing his Mom passed it on, his exact place or time of birth is entirely unknown.
Yesterday was the first day in almost a week he touched his wet food (pate kind, he would lick out the gravy from the gravy and meat kind but leave the meat) and he ate EVERYTHING in his bowl throughout the day! Has has two kinds of dry food and gets 1/4 of each right now because I am switching from one food to another and he also gets 1/2 can of wet food.
Yesterday he ate all of his food. Slowly but surely and I was extremely excited. I split his wet food into four different portions, the first part he ate it. Yes! The second part he left until I went to throw it out but when I walked in it was gone so I guess he ate it. Third part I warmed up and he ate it. Fourth part I was going to warm up but the power went out so I grabbed a spoon and he slowly ate it all off of the spoon. Then throughout the evening he meandered his way back to his food bowl to nibble at his dry food and then sleep.
Some days in the past week he wouldn't touch the wet food (So I didn't give it to him on the 19th, just dry food which some of breakfast and dinner was left in the morning and I threw it out to start fresh) but I tried the gravy and meat kind which is when he licked off all of the gravy and then decided he was done even though he had dry in his bowl too. And where it would usually take him 2 hours to eat his breakfast maybe up to 6 hours, it was still there 24 hours later.
He also isn't as active as usual. Sometimes we play fight and he bites us but when my sister tried playing with him he just ignored her or walked away she even tried to aggravate him into play biting like she always does and he just ignored her or left. He is also sleeping on the kitchen chairs once or twice lately and I haven't seen him do that in like 2+ months. He has access to nearly every room- kitchen, living room, bathroom and one of the bedrooms. He has a bed behind a lazy boy chair in the living room that I often find him sleeping it. It is away from the dog but still in the same room as me which I think he likes.
He has also had 4 coughing fits in the past 4 months. 2 were in the last two or less months, one of which was a few days ago during his "eating is not important" thing. We are going to the vet today but he ate all of his food yesterday and he has been nibbling on his food today (fed about 3 hours ago) but I'm very confused.
I leave the province (Canadian) soon for a month and while I have my sister and Mom looking after him I am worried I won't be here for him if something happens, I don't want to take a chance with his virus.
Lymphoma in the neck/throat is something that was brought to my attention as someone I have talked to told me their last 4 FeLV+ kitties died from it and it started with not eating. Not eating is also one of the first signs of his Leukemia progressing but because he ate everything yesterday I don't know what to think. I weighed him about a week or two before this started and I am weighing him again today before the vet visit to see if he lost any weight.
He is using the litter box fine, he is not aggressive (but he attacked my feet in bed this morning, he hasn't done that in awhile!), delirious, puking or sneezing or falling over. He just seems to be less active, coughing a big, and very finicky. I fed him 8 treats two nights ago (no idea why that many) and he ate them all but then the next morning (yesterday) he didn't touch them and I threw them out with the dry food so I could start over and keep proper track of his eating. I have tried different dry foods and different wet food, hand feeding (worked for wet food did not work for dry food).
Any thoughts or suggestions on what to talk about at the vet? Any experiences? Please and thank you!
Oh and p.s.: I don't know how or why but on one side of his face he has normal whiskers but on the other side he has few and one is very, very short only maybe one centimeter out of his fur but we have 0 idea how that happened because no one did anything to his face! I never paid attention to his whiskers so I don't know how long they have been like that. He had a benign mass on his mouth at 3 months old (that is why he was tested for FeLV and was neutered at the same time the mass was removed) but it was removed without issue and other than FeLV he has been perfectly healthy and I have had him since a few weeks after he tested positive for the second time in January.
I have never seen him cough but my sister has those four times and the last time she recorded it on her phone. He has always had a funny breathing pattern but when I got it checked out the vet said that because there were no other symptoms of anything like coughing, sneezing, itching, puking or anything that he is fine and just to watch him. That was about 4 months ago.
Yesterday was the first day in almost a week he touched his wet food (pate kind, he would lick out the gravy from the gravy and meat kind but leave the meat) and he ate EVERYTHING in his bowl throughout the day! Has has two kinds of dry food and gets 1/4 of each right now because I am switching from one food to another and he also gets 1/2 can of wet food.
Yesterday he ate all of his food. Slowly but surely and I was extremely excited. I split his wet food into four different portions, the first part he ate it. Yes! The second part he left until I went to throw it out but when I walked in it was gone so I guess he ate it. Third part I warmed up and he ate it. Fourth part I was going to warm up but the power went out so I grabbed a spoon and he slowly ate it all off of the spoon. Then throughout the evening he meandered his way back to his food bowl to nibble at his dry food and then sleep.
Some days in the past week he wouldn't touch the wet food (So I didn't give it to him on the 19th, just dry food which some of breakfast and dinner was left in the morning and I threw it out to start fresh) but I tried the gravy and meat kind which is when he licked off all of the gravy and then decided he was done even though he had dry in his bowl too. And where it would usually take him 2 hours to eat his breakfast maybe up to 6 hours, it was still there 24 hours later.
He also isn't as active as usual. Sometimes we play fight and he bites us but when my sister tried playing with him he just ignored her or walked away she even tried to aggravate him into play biting like she always does and he just ignored her or left. He is also sleeping on the kitchen chairs once or twice lately and I haven't seen him do that in like 2+ months. He has access to nearly every room- kitchen, living room, bathroom and one of the bedrooms. He has a bed behind a lazy boy chair in the living room that I often find him sleeping it. It is away from the dog but still in the same room as me which I think he likes.
He has also had 4 coughing fits in the past 4 months. 2 were in the last two or less months, one of which was a few days ago during his "eating is not important" thing. We are going to the vet today but he ate all of his food yesterday and he has been nibbling on his food today (fed about 3 hours ago) but I'm very confused.
I leave the province (Canadian) soon for a month and while I have my sister and Mom looking after him I am worried I won't be here for him if something happens, I don't want to take a chance with his virus.
Lymphoma in the neck/throat is something that was brought to my attention as someone I have talked to told me their last 4 FeLV+ kitties died from it and it started with not eating. Not eating is also one of the first signs of his Leukemia progressing but because he ate everything yesterday I don't know what to think. I weighed him about a week or two before this started and I am weighing him again today before the vet visit to see if he lost any weight.
He is using the litter box fine, he is not aggressive (but he attacked my feet in bed this morning, he hasn't done that in awhile!), delirious, puking or sneezing or falling over. He just seems to be less active, coughing a big, and very finicky. I fed him 8 treats two nights ago (no idea why that many) and he ate them all but then the next morning (yesterday) he didn't touch them and I threw them out with the dry food so I could start over and keep proper track of his eating. I have tried different dry foods and different wet food, hand feeding (worked for wet food did not work for dry food).
Any thoughts or suggestions on what to talk about at the vet? Any experiences? Please and thank you!
Oh and p.s.: I don't know how or why but on one side of his face he has normal whiskers but on the other side he has few and one is very, very short only maybe one centimeter out of his fur but we have 0 idea how that happened because no one did anything to his face! I never paid attention to his whiskers so I don't know how long they have been like that. He had a benign mass on his mouth at 3 months old (that is why he was tested for FeLV and was neutered at the same time the mass was removed) but it was removed without issue and other than FeLV he has been perfectly healthy and I have had him since a few weeks after he tested positive for the second time in January.
I have never seen him cough but my sister has those four times and the last time she recorded it on her phone. He has always had a funny breathing pattern but when I got it checked out the vet said that because there were no other symptoms of anything like coughing, sneezing, itching, puking or anything that he is fine and just to watch him. That was about 4 months ago.
