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My cat, Lynx, is almost exactly a year old. We've had very few problems in the eight months we've had him, but in the past few weeks he's rapidly lose a lot of weight.
We can feel his bones when we pet him and he looks dangerously thin (There's an old pic of him and a new one attached below) and we can't seen to figure out why
He's been perfectly fine up until now. No health issues whatsoever, weight related or otherwise. We've always fed him more than enough (not enough for him to be obese, but he was never left wanting), he's a young cat at only a year old, he seems to have an appetite, and while we're worried it may be caused by a parasite or something, he's strictly an indoor cat and the only contact he's ever had with the outside world was before we got him at three months old. It's possible he could have gotten something from our other cat who we only got a month or two ago, but she's a healthy weight. And while he has come in contact with mice a few times, the last chance he had to hunt one was months before he started losing weight, so I don't see how he would have come into contact with a parasite of any kind.
What's more, he's acting healthy. Lynx is as playful and affectionate as ever. Earlier today he was playing with our other cat like nothing was wrong. At dinner time he stole a chicken leg off the counter. Even right now he's cuddling me, purring his little heart out. You'd never know anything was wrong if it weren't for his weight.
We can feel his bones when we pet him and he looks dangerously thin (There's an old pic of him and a new one attached below) and we can't seen to figure out why
He's been perfectly fine up until now. No health issues whatsoever, weight related or otherwise. We've always fed him more than enough (not enough for him to be obese, but he was never left wanting), he's a young cat at only a year old, he seems to have an appetite, and while we're worried it may be caused by a parasite or something, he's strictly an indoor cat and the only contact he's ever had with the outside world was before we got him at three months old. It's possible he could have gotten something from our other cat who we only got a month or two ago, but she's a healthy weight. And while he has come in contact with mice a few times, the last chance he had to hunt one was months before he started losing weight, so I don't see how he would have come into contact with a parasite of any kind.
What's more, he's acting healthy. Lynx is as playful and affectionate as ever. Earlier today he was playing with our other cat like nothing was wrong. At dinner time he stole a chicken leg off the counter. Even right now he's cuddling me, purring his little heart out. You'd never know anything was wrong if it weren't for his weight.
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