Hi, I see there are some other postings similar to mine, but I didn't want to hijack them, so am starting a new one.
My story: I have a female shelter cat named Lucy, that I adopted 2 years ago, and brought home to live with my existing 14 year old male cat. She has always been kept indoors since I brought her home. I thought she was very mellow, let me pet herat the shelter. Well, when I got her home, she turned out to be very timid, and would run away from me. Now after 2 years, she is still just as afraid of other people, and runs if I try to go to her. She will only let me touch her if she is eating, and then just barely. She will come and circle my chair if I am eating, and want a handout, but when done, she runs off, with no touching allowed.
My older existing cat, is 3 times her size, and has always been a bit of a bully to her. She seemed to not mind, and they would play chase a lot and she would try to lick his face, etc. She would eat her own food, but the other cat would eat very fast and then push her out of her dish, eating most of it. She seemed to accept this and would wait to eat afterward. All seemed OK. I have been trying to feed them separately, but she won't eat alone. She will just wait, and when I let them back together, the big cat eats most of her food. Only then, will she go and eat what is left over. She must of been the runt of her litter.
Well last Monday, about 11 days ago, she had vomited up over night. I thought nothing of it, she has done this occasionally. The next night it happened again, only it was just frothy liquid. Again, seemed not that unusual. Then Wednesday it happened about 4 times. Worried, I got her a vet appointment that afternoon. They took blood, did an exam, took her temperature, which was normal. They said she was dehydrated, so gave her IV fluids while we were there, and a shot to stop the vomiting. I got some bland food from the vet also to give her.
The vet called me with the blood work results, and all was in the normal range, thyroid, etc. Only thing was a very slightly elevated white cell count. All seemed better last few days, she seemed mostly normal, but not really eating. She mainly wanted fresh turkey from me, which she usually did. Then she started to vomit again, very small amounts. She now is refusing nearly everything, beyond a small lick. She seems to be drinking water, I found the usual pee in the litterbox, same as usual size.
All the vet work so far has cost over $400, and they wanted to do an X-Ray and ultra sound test, which I decided to wait and see if she got better without more expensive work. But it seems she isn't. I will call the vet tomorrow and tell them whats been happening.
Its so weird, because otherwise, she seems her usual self, sleeping, window watching... Just the cat versus cat 'play' seems to be bothering her more, and she wants to keep away from the bigger cat more than I have been used to seeing. I wonder if all this is being caused by that.
Has anyone else had a similar type of situation? I wish I knew what might of triggered it.
Thanks
My story: I have a female shelter cat named Lucy, that I adopted 2 years ago, and brought home to live with my existing 14 year old male cat. She has always been kept indoors since I brought her home. I thought she was very mellow, let me pet herat the shelter. Well, when I got her home, she turned out to be very timid, and would run away from me. Now after 2 years, she is still just as afraid of other people, and runs if I try to go to her. She will only let me touch her if she is eating, and then just barely. She will come and circle my chair if I am eating, and want a handout, but when done, she runs off, with no touching allowed.
My older existing cat, is 3 times her size, and has always been a bit of a bully to her. She seemed to not mind, and they would play chase a lot and she would try to lick his face, etc. She would eat her own food, but the other cat would eat very fast and then push her out of her dish, eating most of it. She seemed to accept this and would wait to eat afterward. All seemed OK. I have been trying to feed them separately, but she won't eat alone. She will just wait, and when I let them back together, the big cat eats most of her food. Only then, will she go and eat what is left over. She must of been the runt of her litter.
Well last Monday, about 11 days ago, she had vomited up over night. I thought nothing of it, she has done this occasionally. The next night it happened again, only it was just frothy liquid. Again, seemed not that unusual. Then Wednesday it happened about 4 times. Worried, I got her a vet appointment that afternoon. They took blood, did an exam, took her temperature, which was normal. They said she was dehydrated, so gave her IV fluids while we were there, and a shot to stop the vomiting. I got some bland food from the vet also to give her.
The vet called me with the blood work results, and all was in the normal range, thyroid, etc. Only thing was a very slightly elevated white cell count. All seemed better last few days, she seemed mostly normal, but not really eating. She mainly wanted fresh turkey from me, which she usually did. Then she started to vomit again, very small amounts. She now is refusing nearly everything, beyond a small lick. She seems to be drinking water, I found the usual pee in the litterbox, same as usual size.
All the vet work so far has cost over $400, and they wanted to do an X-Ray and ultra sound test, which I decided to wait and see if she got better without more expensive work. But it seems she isn't. I will call the vet tomorrow and tell them whats been happening.
Its so weird, because otherwise, she seems her usual self, sleeping, window watching... Just the cat versus cat 'play' seems to be bothering her more, and she wants to keep away from the bigger cat more than I have been used to seeing. I wonder if all this is being caused by that.
Has anyone else had a similar type of situation? I wish I knew what might of triggered it.
Thanks
