Tailer, my 13 year old boy, has been eating less and less over the last few weeks. I took him to the vet yesterday, and after x-rays and bloodwork, the diagnosis is probably inflammatory intestinal disease. (I say probably because the only way to definately diagnose it is apparently with a biopsy, which I'm hoping to avoid putting him through if we can.)
We started him last night on Flagyl and she gave us an appetite stimulant. However, last night he ate very little and today I haven't been able to get him to eat anything besides a little boiled ham and a few treats. I've tried numerous kinds of food, warming his food up, adding enticing things to the top of the food, and everything else I can think of. I'm boiling some chicken now to see if he'll eat that. He follows me to the kitchen and meows at me and acts like he's hungry, but when the food is in front of him he refuses it. I can't figure out what he wants.
He does not appear to be dehydrated at this point, and they gave him some subcutaneous fluids at the vet's office yesterday. The vet said if he's not eating by Saturday to bring him back in, but I'd rather not have him go without eating if possible.
Does anybody have any suggestions for getting a sick cat to eat? Can you spare some of those magic TCS vibes for Tailer?
We started him last night on Flagyl and she gave us an appetite stimulant. However, last night he ate very little and today I haven't been able to get him to eat anything besides a little boiled ham and a few treats. I've tried numerous kinds of food, warming his food up, adding enticing things to the top of the food, and everything else I can think of. I'm boiling some chicken now to see if he'll eat that. He follows me to the kitchen and meows at me and acts like he's hungry, but when the food is in front of him he refuses it. I can't figure out what he wants.
He does not appear to be dehydrated at this point, and they gave him some subcutaneous fluids at the vet's office yesterday. The vet said if he's not eating by Saturday to bring him back in, but I'd rather not have him go without eating if possible.
Does anybody have any suggestions for getting a sick cat to eat? Can you spare some of those magic TCS vibes for Tailer?