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Alright guys I'm desperate here. My senior CRF kitty has essentially stopped eating the last few weeks, even though her blood levels aren't even late stage yet and she seems to be doing OK otherwise. She just doesn't eat. She's been on both appetite stimulants (currently sticking with Mirtazapine since cyproheptadine made her super depressed) and I've tried basically every brand of cat food on the market, boiled chicken, tuna... I'm at a loss. I've been syringe feeding her a/d to keep her going but its not enough.
Is there something, anything I can give her that is more calorically dense so she can actually maintain or even gain weight until we figure out how to get her interested in food again? Watching her waste away is killing me. It would be one thing if she was very sick in a variety of ways but her main problems appear to be constipation and lethargy from just not eating enough! I don't want to put her down just because she won't eat but she is painfully thin and I worry that she is suffering :'(
To preempt some possible troubleshooting: she gets fluids daily, is on steroids for IBS, has been given anti-nausea meds (though the ones she has been on can only be given daily for five consecutive days at a time, cerenia), antacids, and slippery elm bark. I've tried tempting her to eat with smelly foods and warming things up. She's even been given roasted chicken or beef off our plates and won't eat that either, despite begging for it. Which is very confusing. Her teeth are bad but have been for a while and have never caused problems in the past, no mouth ulcers.
Is there something, anything I can give her that is more calorically dense so she can actually maintain or even gain weight until we figure out how to get her interested in food again? Watching her waste away is killing me. It would be one thing if she was very sick in a variety of ways but her main problems appear to be constipation and lethargy from just not eating enough! I don't want to put her down just because she won't eat but she is painfully thin and I worry that she is suffering :'(
To preempt some possible troubleshooting: she gets fluids daily, is on steroids for IBS, has been given anti-nausea meds (though the ones she has been on can only be given daily for five consecutive days at a time, cerenia), antacids, and slippery elm bark. I've tried tempting her to eat with smelly foods and warming things up. She's even been given roasted chicken or beef off our plates and won't eat that either, despite begging for it. Which is very confusing. Her teeth are bad but have been for a while and have never caused problems in the past, no mouth ulcers.