Hello,
I'm really concerned about my cat, Stella, and was hoping someone could give me some insight as to what could be going on. So far, our vet is coming up with nothing.
Stella is a small tuxedo DSH who has a gravely loud voice and a passion for my husband that almost competes with my own (he jokingly calls her "the other woman").
That aside, she is usually an aloof cat who avoids me and our female petsitter like the plague (we think she prefers men...and babies). Still, I am very attached to her and would be heartbroken if we lost her. She is nine years old, and had been very healthy until recently.
About two months ago, she started throwing up regularly and peeing outside the litterbox. I also noticed the other cat (Mini Mew) harassed her a lot more. The vet discovered she had the very beginning of kidney disease. We put her on kidney diet, and while she's not been thrilled with the stuff, she eats it.
Her kidney values are back to normal and the vet said she doesn't have a UTI either, but she has continued to very slowly loose weight. At night, we put her in my studio with a litterbox so she gets a reprieve from our other cat picking on her so she stopped peeing outside the box too (we added the box). I originally thought her accidents were because Mew was picking on her, but now when I hear her using the box I hear her crying.
As I mentioned earlier, she is usually a very aloof cat—even though she loves my husband and now our baby (I think she was in a home with one before we adopted her 4 years ago). However, lately she is acting very clingy...almost like she's trying to tell us she needs help. This really scares me, because one of our cats did that right before he died of a blood clot.
She's been tested for UTIs twice. One of the tests was more extensive. The vet found nothing. She's been X-rayed. Nothing. So, we're taking her to get a sonogram on Friday...
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?
I keep hoping I could just be paranoid, but I have this annoying trait of being the first person to pick up the slightest illness in our pets.
I'm really concerned about my cat, Stella, and was hoping someone could give me some insight as to what could be going on. So far, our vet is coming up with nothing.
Stella is a small tuxedo DSH who has a gravely loud voice and a passion for my husband that almost competes with my own (he jokingly calls her "the other woman").
About two months ago, she started throwing up regularly and peeing outside the litterbox. I also noticed the other cat (Mini Mew) harassed her a lot more. The vet discovered she had the very beginning of kidney disease. We put her on kidney diet, and while she's not been thrilled with the stuff, she eats it.
Her kidney values are back to normal and the vet said she doesn't have a UTI either, but she has continued to very slowly loose weight. At night, we put her in my studio with a litterbox so she gets a reprieve from our other cat picking on her so she stopped peeing outside the box too (we added the box). I originally thought her accidents were because Mew was picking on her, but now when I hear her using the box I hear her crying.
As I mentioned earlier, she is usually a very aloof cat—even though she loves my husband and now our baby (I think she was in a home with one before we adopted her 4 years ago). However, lately she is acting very clingy...almost like she's trying to tell us she needs help. This really scares me, because one of our cats did that right before he died of a blood clot.
She's been tested for UTIs twice. One of the tests was more extensive. The vet found nothing. She's been X-rayed. Nothing. So, we're taking her to get a sonogram on Friday...
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?
I keep hoping I could just be paranoid, but I have this annoying trait of being the first person to pick up the slightest illness in our pets.