now shes not eating!!

Definately the canned, it has more moisture...poor thing...the throwing up and then having a hard stool sounds to me like constipation...bet she's feeling a bit better already.

Thanks guys. Im going to try to get her to eat the perscription wet food first. If she wont go for that im gonna give her the fancy feast.

Shes actually meowing for the food now! Thats a great sign!

Well i didnt go to the vet on thursday. I phoned them that morning and told them that she went but seemed constipated. They were thrilled and said to start giving her hairball remedy. They also said not to bring her in now as long as theres food going in and comeing out the other end. She hasnt gone #2 since then but she still isnt up to her regular amount of food intake but its still rising. Im trying to give her a bit of time before i start getting worried again. Her attitude is almost back to normal. She woke me up as 730 this morning because she was lonely and wanted to play.

Now heres todays question. She still doesnt eat her dry food. How long should i give her before getting concerned? What are my chances for her to have something else wrong or am i just being paranoid now?

Any suggestions and/or advise is welcome.

oh ya, it seems to be anything hard and crunchy she seems to say no to. Could they be upseting her tummy?

Honestly, as long as she builds up to a normal amt. for her age/weight amount of wet food, i wouldn't worry too much about the dry. But then, I think a wet food diet is preferable overall. If you really want her to get back to the dry, try mixing a little dry in with the wet to see if that will get her started.

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oh ya, it seems to be anything hard and crunchy she seems to say no to. Could they be upseting her tummy?

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It's possible, it's also possible she has something going on with her mouth? Has she had any mouth sores or dental issues (I know she's young but mouth sores are possible if she's had an upper respiratory infection). Some cats do have a texture thing and simply do not like dry food.

I checked her teeth out earlier today and didnt see anything wrong. If she had a mouth sore will it go away with time? What do they look like?

I was just thinking. Wouldnt the vet notice any problems with her teeth when she checked her mouth the time she went for the asthma?

Yes, she would...I was just throwing out anything I could think of as a possible reason for not wanting dry. I wouldn't worry if she had just recently had her mouth checked out.

Well i phone the vet this morning, hoping for some ideas on whats going on, and they said they want to do a recheck on her asthma anyway. So, they are gonna check out her mouth real good this time.

Sorry if im a big pain about all this. Im just looking for a place to let my thoughts out. Ive in a pretty bad mood since this whole thing started with an average of 5 hours of sleep a night. Im getting pretty worn out.

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There are a lot of cats (and dogs) that don't like dry food. As far as the canned food is concerned, there are also cats that don't like "leftovers", and thus insist on small cans/pouches. I now have two that insist on little cans - they won't even deign to split a larger can. Jamie started it, and now ZsaZsa also wants her own little can. A guy who works for a pet food producer told me that the food is heated in the cans to sterilize it, and the smaller cans are logically heated for a shorter period of time, so the food is tastier.

the problem is that she used to perfer dry food and plus I cant even get her to eat her favorite treats

She may have decided that she prefers canned food. Or she is sick of that particular brand of dry food (Jamie stops eating a brand after about three months, and won't eat the same brand more than twice a week, so I'm constantly rotating). Also, even though it's a new bag, there may be something wrong with it (does it smell rancid?), or the ingredients may have been changed.
As Pat said, what's important is that she's eating, so I wouldn't worry too much about the dry at the moment.

Well yesterday i got sakura to eat 2 mini cans of wet food. This is the most ive gotten her to eat so im quite happy. I switched her over to Science Diet savory cuts because i found she loves the gravy on it too. Plus its alot healthier than fancy feast i imagine.

I weighed her yesterday and discover she lost almost 4 pounds, she only weighed 11 before and shes now 7. Good thing shes almost eating what she should be now! Her ideal wieght is 8 so its sad that this is a little bit of a good thing.

Ive thought about what eveyone has said and decided that ill quit worring about the dry food for a while. Ill let the vet know about it and decide what to do then.

oh yeah she went #2 again yesterday and she wasnt consitpated this time!

Thanks for the update...keep her eating! That's a lot of weight to lose in a short time

She started to eat dry food today! I bought Iams for her the otherday because i got thinking that if it was the brand she grew up on then maybe she might want to eat it more. Well she didnt start eating till today. She seemed realy curious of it for a while and then tried a few peices and left it alone. Then a little while ago i saw her eating some more!

I really wanted her to start eating dry food again because ill be very busy with my brothers wedding next month and there is going to be a few days when i wont be home with her. Now i wont have to worry so much!

Tomarrow at Sakura's ashtma check at the vet im still going to ask them to check out her teeth just incase.

Well Sakura has been doing very well

I took her to the vet not long after my last post and they put her on prednisone for the asthma and shes been doing awsome since! She eats her dry food and I still give her wet food on hot days. Which right now its very hot here.

good to hear a good report

Wonderful!