I'm planning to go to the vet on Monday as I'm trying to get a good picture of my cat condition before I go to the doctor with not "enough" information. This is what I've so far:
My 9.5 year old indoor Persian cat has been eating small amounts of food for the past few weeks and I'm started to worry there's something else happening. For a little background:
1. She's supposed to be a FIV+ cat, although we never know how she got infected as I said she's 100% indoors (living on a condo, so impossible for her to go anywhere). Given that she has not been vaccinated for the past 3 years.
2. Diet is: 90% kibbles + 10% wet food (no schedule)
3. Her weight has always fluctuated from 7.6-8.2 pounds. Right now she's at 7.4 decreasing from a constant 7.8 during the first quarter of the year.
4. She's brushed twice a month, no vomit / hairballs for the last 2 months. However, every now and then she has some poop with hair.
5. Started to get constipated at the beginning of March. I clean her litter every night religiously so I know her litter behavior.When there's no poop, I give her some pumpkin puree in the morning + sentry malt hairball relief on the evening and that helps her, as usually the day after I scoop big stools. I notice that lately I need to stay with that formula in order to get her to poop, otherwise there are slim chances she won't poop.
6. We've been syringe feeding her due to her lack of appetite. She never refuses wet food, but gets tired of it pretty quickly (that's why is only 10% of her diet). Lately she's not eating all her pouches. She never refuses Orijen treats which at least shows she's hungry.
7. She has been very active, as a matter of fact, without the food intake concern or mild constipation one would think she's doing fine.
8. Wife says she has always been like that, but lately I've noticed she's breathing very fast, sometimes during sleeping. Couple of nights during this year I saw her having some difficulties, like apnea perhaps, and she has woken up crying looking for us, looking a little bit scared and starts scratching the floor. This has not happened in the last 6 weeks or so
9. No nose or eye discharge that is of any concern for me. I'm used to clean her nostrils every 7 days, there's usually some dirt, but nothing with a special color to be worried. Her right eye always has a clear discharge that she cleans it, but gets dirty after 4-5 days, so I also clean her eye every 7 days with some Qtips. Qtips get brownish, but I suspect is dirt rather than anything else.
I want to go to the vet and run some tests on her, but I want to be sure based on your experiences that my vet doesn't omit or forget something that you think it may be a good idea my cat is tested for. Based on my description, do you have any idea on what may be happening to her?
Thanks for your help.
My 9.5 year old indoor Persian cat has been eating small amounts of food for the past few weeks and I'm started to worry there's something else happening. For a little background:
1. She's supposed to be a FIV+ cat, although we never know how she got infected as I said she's 100% indoors (living on a condo, so impossible for her to go anywhere). Given that she has not been vaccinated for the past 3 years.
2. Diet is: 90% kibbles + 10% wet food (no schedule)
3. Her weight has always fluctuated from 7.6-8.2 pounds. Right now she's at 7.4 decreasing from a constant 7.8 during the first quarter of the year.
4. She's brushed twice a month, no vomit / hairballs for the last 2 months. However, every now and then she has some poop with hair.
5. Started to get constipated at the beginning of March. I clean her litter every night religiously so I know her litter behavior.When there's no poop, I give her some pumpkin puree in the morning + sentry malt hairball relief on the evening and that helps her, as usually the day after I scoop big stools. I notice that lately I need to stay with that formula in order to get her to poop, otherwise there are slim chances she won't poop.
6. We've been syringe feeding her due to her lack of appetite. She never refuses wet food, but gets tired of it pretty quickly (that's why is only 10% of her diet). Lately she's not eating all her pouches. She never refuses Orijen treats which at least shows she's hungry.
7. She has been very active, as a matter of fact, without the food intake concern or mild constipation one would think she's doing fine.
8. Wife says she has always been like that, but lately I've noticed she's breathing very fast, sometimes during sleeping. Couple of nights during this year I saw her having some difficulties, like apnea perhaps, and she has woken up crying looking for us, looking a little bit scared and starts scratching the floor. This has not happened in the last 6 weeks or so
9. No nose or eye discharge that is of any concern for me. I'm used to clean her nostrils every 7 days, there's usually some dirt, but nothing with a special color to be worried. Her right eye always has a clear discharge that she cleans it, but gets dirty after 4-5 days, so I also clean her eye every 7 days with some Qtips. Qtips get brownish, but I suspect is dirt rather than anything else.
I want to go to the vet and run some tests on her, but I want to be sure based on your experiences that my vet doesn't omit or forget something that you think it may be a good idea my cat is tested for. Based on my description, do you have any idea on what may be happening to her?
Thanks for your help.
