I have an eighteen year old cat. She has the beginnings of kidney disease. I have tried to get her to eat the special kidney food but she just plain refuses. She went for almost 4 days without eating at all rather than eat the special hard or soft food (perscription). So she eats friskies special diet, fancy feast cans and royal cain dry food. Other than the special diet she has eaten the other food basically her whole life. She has steadily lost weight and is now down to 4.5 lbs. She is a small cat but she is very very skinny. She still runs over when I sit on the couch in the evening and jumps in my lap wanting to be petted and purrs when I do. She jumps up on the kitchen counter. She likes me to give her water out of the faucet. She wants to be with the family in the evening but sleeps most of the day. I know if she keeps loosing weight she can't live forever. My vet has examined her and wants to continue to do tests every three months but it is alot of money and all she says is to feed her the food she just stubornly won't eat. I can bring myself to starve her to death so i break down and give her what she wants. I do give her pepcid. Overall she doesn;t seem to be suffering but what should I look for and what should I expect. My childhood cat had a stoke at about 11 years old when I was away at college so she is the first can to grow old with me and I worry I my inadvertantly let her suffer.
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