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TLDR: My male old cat Pipiou (about 15yr old) stopped eating, has serious tumors and is doomed according to the vet. He has been prescribed cortison, and if nothing works within 5 days we'll have to put him down. Any advice that could help?
Hi, My cat, Pipiou, is an old male cat. (about 15). A bit more than a month ago, he started eating less. I noticed he was licking his wet food only, not biting it, but was still eating dry food properly. But then in a month he lost a lot of weight. He was slightly chubby and now you can feel his bones. The 2 past weeks he stopped eating completly except licking the gravy from wet food from time to time but nothing more. I tried everything, chicken, liquid food, steak, salmon oil, cat milk. Nothing worked. He isolates in a room (we didn't let him go outside without our watch as we found him on the road disoriented). He still lets us approach him but he's different. He walks nonchalently, sometimes lack balance probably because of the weakness caused by starvation, stays in that room all the time, goes to the kitchen to eat but doesn't eat, feels "empty" and robotic.
We brought him to a vet who only did a blood test (came out perfect). Brought him to a 2nd vet. We were contemplating putting him down if the vet wouldn't find anything as my cat was clearly dying,miserable and nothing was working. The vet touched him, felt very big tumors in his stomach area. She told us he's doomed but gave us cortison as a last attempt to try improve his end of life (can't afford chimio nor surgery, my cat is too old). The vet said if we don't notice any improvement within 5 days nothing will work and we'd have to put him down. Yesterday he seemed slightly better and ate some dry food 3 times, barely anything but it's better than licking wet food gravy, but today he seems having no improvement.
Please, do you have any advice, something I could try to give him the best chances of improvement during those 5 days of test? I love my cat so much and want to try everything to help him, but I can't stand seeing him suffer. Thank you very much
Hi, My cat, Pipiou, is an old male cat. (about 15). A bit more than a month ago, he started eating less. I noticed he was licking his wet food only, not biting it, but was still eating dry food properly. But then in a month he lost a lot of weight. He was slightly chubby and now you can feel his bones. The 2 past weeks he stopped eating completly except licking the gravy from wet food from time to time but nothing more. I tried everything, chicken, liquid food, steak, salmon oil, cat milk. Nothing worked. He isolates in a room (we didn't let him go outside without our watch as we found him on the road disoriented). He still lets us approach him but he's different. He walks nonchalently, sometimes lack balance probably because of the weakness caused by starvation, stays in that room all the time, goes to the kitchen to eat but doesn't eat, feels "empty" and robotic.
We brought him to a vet who only did a blood test (came out perfect). Brought him to a 2nd vet. We were contemplating putting him down if the vet wouldn't find anything as my cat was clearly dying,miserable and nothing was working. The vet touched him, felt very big tumors in his stomach area. She told us he's doomed but gave us cortison as a last attempt to try improve his end of life (can't afford chimio nor surgery, my cat is too old). The vet said if we don't notice any improvement within 5 days nothing will work and we'd have to put him down. Yesterday he seemed slightly better and ate some dry food 3 times, barely anything but it's better than licking wet food gravy, but today he seems having no improvement.
Please, do you have any advice, something I could try to give him the best chances of improvement during those 5 days of test? I love my cat so much and want to try everything to help him, but I can't stand seeing him suffer. Thank you very much
