my 18 1/2 yr old girl has IBD and CRF (renal failure)
she is eating an enormous amount of food!!
the vet said that iBD makes it hard for them to absorb the nutrients from food, that is why she is eating so much
i worry though, at her age, that maybe she is senile and is eating because she can't remember that she just ate like, an hour ago....
her wt fluctuates about 6 to 9 oz, either way. she will start to go down, and just when i am getting worried
her wt comes back up again.
she is about a 9 lb cat (most of her life she was over 11lbs)
she eats as many as THREE tuna fish size cans of GOOD QUALITY cat food, per day
(right now she is eating Sensible choice because its good for her CRF, also she eats Natural Life lamaderm and others)
i am afraid she will explode, but of course she never does.
then i worry that IBD is perhaps only part of the reason for the over eating, i wonder if she has a cancer somewhere, and she is eating to keep up with it-
when my parent's cancers metastisized, they both were not able to maintain their wt, no matter how much they ate.
so i worry that she has had a cancer all this time, and now it has metastisized and it will get harder for her to maintain her wt..
a year ago a vet told me she had lymphoma, but was not able to tell me how he came to that conclusion.
he wanted to do an ultrasound, not to diagnose her, but to tell me how much longer she had to live
something seemed odd about it all, so i took her to anohter vet, who said there was no reason to think she had a lymphoma, other than the fact that they are common in older cats
so, now i wonder, who was right?
if i just knew of one other cat who ate as much as she does, who has IBD i would not worry so much
anyone know anyone, even???
she is eating an enormous amount of food!!
the vet said that iBD makes it hard for them to absorb the nutrients from food, that is why she is eating so much
i worry though, at her age, that maybe she is senile and is eating because she can't remember that she just ate like, an hour ago....
her wt fluctuates about 6 to 9 oz, either way. she will start to go down, and just when i am getting worried
her wt comes back up again.
she is about a 9 lb cat (most of her life she was over 11lbs)
she eats as many as THREE tuna fish size cans of GOOD QUALITY cat food, per day
(right now she is eating Sensible choice because its good for her CRF, also she eats Natural Life lamaderm and others)
i am afraid she will explode, but of course she never does.
then i worry that IBD is perhaps only part of the reason for the over eating, i wonder if she has a cancer somewhere, and she is eating to keep up with it-
when my parent's cancers metastisized, they both were not able to maintain their wt, no matter how much they ate.
so i worry that she has had a cancer all this time, and now it has metastisized and it will get harder for her to maintain her wt..
a year ago a vet told me she had lymphoma, but was not able to tell me how he came to that conclusion.
he wanted to do an ultrasound, not to diagnose her, but to tell me how much longer she had to live
something seemed odd about it all, so i took her to anohter vet, who said there was no reason to think she had a lymphoma, other than the fact that they are common in older cats
so, now i wonder, who was right?
if i just knew of one other cat who ate as much as she does, who has IBD i would not worry so much
anyone know anyone, even???