Hello, I'm very new here but I was wondering if anyone had advice regarding my 15 year old cat Zippy. He is recovering from a bad virus, despite having had his jabs he contracted something which made him sneeze, his eyes gunked up, his breathing laboured, lost appetite, and pernicious of all it gave him terrible diarrhoea which he is still suffering from. He's been to the vet several times, once he was on a drip as he'd dehydrated so much. The vet had given him a couple of anti-emetic injections after which he found his appetite briefly and a vitamin B12 jab.
He's still painfully thin and hardly eating plus he has diarrhoea still although his poo isn't as foul smelling. I've put all his favourite foods out but as bland as I can, cooked salmon and chicken and some of his normal canned food but although he wants to eat I think the nausea or sore tummy is preventing him. He hasn't vomited at all during his illness and there is no blood and mucus in his poo. Does anybody have any ideas how to get him to eat and stop his diarrhoea? I could take him again to the vet but he finds it stressful and although he is insured they want the money up front and my funds are going.
He's still painfully thin and hardly eating plus he has diarrhoea still although his poo isn't as foul smelling. I've put all his favourite foods out but as bland as I can, cooked salmon and chicken and some of his normal canned food but although he wants to eat I think the nausea or sore tummy is preventing him. He hasn't vomited at all during his illness and there is no blood and mucus in his poo. Does anybody have any ideas how to get him to eat and stop his diarrhoea? I could take him again to the vet but he finds it stressful and although he is insured they want the money up front and my funds are going.
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). I wish you lots of luck with your puss, IBD is very common with older cats and can have so many causes, it seems that with mine it was the virus that set it off. 
