Help for a very sick kitty

I have a cat I adopted from the streets a few months ago. I notice that her behavior was kind of strange. She seem to forget how to go in the litter box, she had problems getting rid of her stools from time to time, and she sometimes meow loudly at night to wake me up when I was falling asleep. She had problems peening, she didn't want to pee, and she peed in bed many times. Sometimes she would also sleep next to the bed with her head kind of touching the side of the bed.

This last Friday around the afternoon she started moving around the house trying to release her stool but after that she continue to move around like she was looking for something. I place her in the bed where she slept for a few hours, but when she woke up she started walking around the house and looking for a crevice to place her head in.

Saturday morning I took her to a vet, and he said that it was probably a liver problem that she is very old and she might have high levels of ammonia which are causing her to be in a drugged state of being.

He told me that there not much anyone can do for her. That it is probably best to put her to sleep.

Right now she is not even eating. If I take her out of the cage I place her in, she will walk kind of weakly until she finds a crevice to place her self in. She is not suffering, she still wags her tail when I pet her.

I would like to know if there is any one here who may be experience with this type of behavior.

The doctor never gave her a blood test, he gave her a urine test. He checked her teeth for age. I do not see her teeth to look old or her coat. She has one or two gray hairs on her coat, her eyes are a little foggy inside, and she never seem to run she only walk. She is a black and yellowish gray cat.

I can not take her to another doctor and get a second opinion because is Saturday and tomorow ether, for it is Sunday so maybe someone could know something I could do meanwhile.

Hope you can help.

Hi,

One thing is immediate...you must get food into her! Try baby food (plain meat like beef or turkey, no onions listed in the ingredients), adding plain homemade chicken broth to her food, try a fishy canned cat food - the aroma may help stimulate her appetite a bit. If you must, gently hand feed her, taking a small fingertip scoop of wet food and gently placing that in her mouth.

The vet didn't do you any favors...what is old in a cat? Many cats now live to be 19 and 20, and depending on what is wrong, you do not give up on them just because "they are old".

From what you describe, the weakness, the constipation, the lack of appetite, it sounds possible (I obviously can't know, your cat needs blood work drawn to check her kidney values and needs a better vet eval than it sounds like she got) that your kitty may have chronic renal failure. For more information on this, please go to either or both of these two sites:
Feline Crf dot com
and Tanya's Site

Cats with crf, depending on how severe, can live for several or more years after diagnosis...I know, I have one coming up on 3 years, about to reach his 18th birthday.

If it were possible, I'd zip her in to the emergency vet, get those labs drawn and find out exactly what is wrong. If that is not possible, please get a second vet opinion on Monday, and insist they actually do diagnostic bloodwork.

Trust me, she is suffering and she needs to eat. It is possible that while on the street she came in contact with bad food, that happens quite a bit. It does take time, but it can make the breakdown of the internal organs begin early. But without blood work you won't know. This article gives tips to get a cat to eat

http://www.thecatsite.com/Cats/Cat_H...Lipidosis.html

Originally Posted by hissy

Trust me, she is suffering and she needs to eat. It is possible that while on the street she came in contact with bad food, that happens quite a bit. It does take time, but it can make the breakdown of the internal organs begin early. But without blood work you won't know. This article gives tips to get a cat to eat

http://www.thecatsite.com/Cats/Cat_H...Lipidosis.html

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I Just checked her again and she seems to be going under really quick. I do not think she will make it by tomorow. She is so asleep that when I try to give her water he does not opens her mouth.

The timing was the most wrong of all things. I live in a town where the only vet available was not that good. This is a holliday, and all of the vets out.

I just wish there was something I could give her that I could get at a store myself. I have such bad luck with doctors. The last time I lost a companion it was a weekend again.

I do not think it was poison because she was getting the same simptoms but mild before she had this. Plus the urine test shows she had high lever of amonia.

How long has it been since she's eaten or drank any water?

Don't panic but you need to get very aggressive here. Find a syringe, mix up some kitten food into a mush and start force-feeding her into the mouth on 4 hour intervals. I had to do some of this with Nano immediately after her rescue...so there is hope of an eventual recovery but right now it is time for direct action. All of the other issues and symptoms can wait.

If she is indeed fading that quickly the only one that can really help you is a vet. If she is not opening her mouth you will have to be very careful when you do force feed her. Feeding her to quickly will cause her to aspirate, and if you see no cooperation on her part once the food is in her mouth- Is there no vet that makes farm calls? You sound like you might be in a farming community?

You're kitty sounds like she is going through what my Snoopy did, a month ago. He was 20 years old, and he just went downhil completely within a few hours. It happened on a weekend as well. First he went around the house straining to go to the bathroom, every few minutes, but he couldn't go. Then started becoming totally lethargic. He refused to eat, and all he wanted to do was lay down, and not be bothered. I tried giving him chicken babyfood, and pedialyte. He refused to eat, so I tried force feeding him. He got a bit of it down, but it was making him so miserable and stressed, that I told him I wouldn't force him anymore. I took him to the Vet on Monday morning, and the Vet said he was grave condition, and sound be put to sleep. I let him go that day to the Rainbow Bridge. It was a heartbreaking decision, that I'll probably never get over, but I try to feel better that I didn't make him suffer anymore. I feel badly that he had to suffer so badly though, on the Sunday before he crossed over.

That is the same way I feel. She looks near going. Force feeding her will not take care of the problem so she is going to die suffering or soffocating on food. I know that in the stage she is in it will not be possible.

I hope you guys can wish her well. She will be probably passing tonight.

I think the reason why someone let her go was because she was sick in the first place. I feel proud to have taken her and given her a nice place to live and my bed to sleep and good food.

Of course we wish her well in her passing. If we didn't care, no one would have responded to your request for help. All those who responded know what it is like to deal with illness in a beloved kitty, and we know how difficult a time this is.

I am very sorry this wasn't something she could recover from, and sorry for your loss,

Originally Posted by Byron_57

That is the same way I feel. She looks near going. Force feeding her will not take care of the problem so she is going to die suffering or soffocating on food. I know that in the stage she is in it will not be possible.

I hope you guys can wish her well. She will be probably passing tonight.

I think the reason why someone let her go was because she was sick in the first place. I feel proud to have taken her and given her a nice place to live and my bed to sleep and good food.

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I most definitely wish her well! You are obviously her concerned caretaker so you should do what you think is best based on all the information. This is the internet so none of us can see the situation. If it is her time, at least you made her comfortable towards the end.