My kitty, Lux, is usually all about food but for the past few days he has seemed disinterested. He has been eating about half his usual amount of food - he can be picky sometimes, so I thought it was just about getting a new one. I got him a wet food he liked and he is eating enough of that, and some nibbles of dry food (I recently succeeded in supplementing a high-quality dry with a high-quality wet - he used to eat the dry food and his Greenies only). What really concerns me is he's sleeping or resting twice as much as normal, and not playing nearly as much. He used to have tons of energy...but even in the middle of the night last night, he was just asleep...just as he'd been during the day. I used to throw treats for him as a way to get him some exercise and he would bolt after them, going so fast he slid on my hardwood floor...now he just strolls after it, if at all. It has gotten colder rapidly in the past few days, so perhaps it is a response to that. But to top it off, I came home from running errands last night to find a light pink puddle on my bathroom floor, with little clumps of cat litter and hair mixed in, as well as cat grass. He is a long hair, so it's good to see that some of the hair in his tummy has found its way out but...light pink? I think this is veering away from normal cat behaviour now, but I need some input before I go to the vet - sometimes I can be a hypochondriac.
Note: I also just changed his Sentry Pheromone Collar the other day, after the month had passed. I use it as a transitional treatment in helping him overcome his anxious temperament. A few days before the change, he was going wild and back to his usual anxious self...but in the few days following that, he seemed more and more lethargic, yet anxious as well. He is breathing quickly...I counted 48 times in a minute when he has been moving around. It goes down to 15 when he is sleeping/relaxing. I put the collar on him yesterday and it seems to soothe him, but he is still lethargic. He looks generally kind of mournful to me, but I could be superimposing that on him through my worry. It's tough in my situation to figure out if it's he that has the problem or if it's me, because I have anxiety issues and can blow slightly worrying things out of proportion. :S
Note: I also just changed his Sentry Pheromone Collar the other day, after the month had passed. I use it as a transitional treatment in helping him overcome his anxious temperament. A few days before the change, he was going wild and back to his usual anxious self...but in the few days following that, he seemed more and more lethargic, yet anxious as well. He is breathing quickly...I counted 48 times in a minute when he has been moving around. It goes down to 15 when he is sleeping/relaxing. I put the collar on him yesterday and it seems to soothe him, but he is still lethargic. He looks generally kind of mournful to me, but I could be superimposing that on him through my worry. It's tough in my situation to figure out if it's he that has the problem or if it's me, because I have anxiety issues and can blow slightly worrying things out of proportion. :S
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