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Hi, we recently took in 2 cats. My roommate's hs friend's parents had 7 animals. ALL the other animals were healthy accept for one of the cats, the 8or 9 year old one. They gave us her and a cat who is 7 month to a year old. The unhealthy one, B, was skin and bones. They had told us that she only eats table scaps and she wont eat cat food. When we got her home, we put her and the other cat, S, into the bedroom since we have 4 other cats. B ate kitten food just fine and we thought maybe she was just having problems getting to the food in time and the other animals, including 4 dogs, were just eating it before she could. B's shots are all pretty much updated and she is fixed.
We have had them about a month now and she has hardly put on any weight, if any at all. She is always jumping up on the counters trying to eat food, though we have regular food out constantly. She goes INSAINE for real food or canned cat food. When she smells it, or is able to eat some, she attacks it like she hasnt ate for days. I do see her eating the regular cat food.
We had thought maybe she has worms, but none of the family's other animals had this problem, none of our pets have this problem, and there is no evidence of them in her bms. What else could this be? We had called the vet after we first got her and were told just to make sure she has food, but there is hardly if any at all weight gain...
I am very worried about her. She has started to groom herself and sprawl out like she is comforetable here and not stressed, that took her about 2 weeks, but no weight gain. I will be taking her into the vet, but I just wanted some advice now, if anyone had any.
Thanks so much!
We have had them about a month now and she has hardly put on any weight, if any at all. She is always jumping up on the counters trying to eat food, though we have regular food out constantly. She goes INSAINE for real food or canned cat food. When she smells it, or is able to eat some, she attacks it like she hasnt ate for days. I do see her eating the regular cat food.
We had thought maybe she has worms, but none of the family's other animals had this problem, none of our pets have this problem, and there is no evidence of them in her bms. What else could this be? We had called the vet after we first got her and were told just to make sure she has food, but there is hardly if any at all weight gain...
Thanks so much!