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I've been spiraling for the past few hours because our youngest (1 year old) cat Annie, seems to be sick.
So as a bit of prior information, I've been concerned about her for maybe a week or longer. She suddenly had an increased appetite, wasn't necessarily overeating but seemed hungrier than usual. She's also been crying at the bedroom door at night and in the morning more often, and started to stick her whole arm under the door and pull which rattles the door and disturbs our sleep, and the paw action is new behavior for her. Other than this, her litter box habits, drinking and play time seemed completely normal. But I'm unsure if any of this is related.
As for today, it started this morning. She didn't eat her breakfast like she usually does. I put this down to maybe her still being full from the night before as I decided to give her and our other cat more food, but they didn't eat all of it as I ended up sitting with them for a bit when the pawing at the door started. I also saw her hop out of the litter box after using it and she didn't cover her pee, which she usually always does. Again, I put this down to her maybe being excited to get her breakfast as I didn't realise she was in the box when I started to serve their food. She seemed sleepier than usual, sleeping during hours she's usually whining at me to play with her, but we let her sleep.
Then about an hour ago, after me successfully engaging her in some light play with a wand toy, she hopped down from the bed where I was playing with her and threw up. There wasn't much, and it was liquidy and brown with what I thought was a pink tint to it when I brought it into the light. About 30 minutes after that, she sat in the middle of the floor seeming sleepy and she eventually curled her feet under herself and laid down. I was watching her the whole time during this. I then decided to leave the room for a moment and heard her throw up again, and it was the same kind of brown liquid, but much less and with more of a pink tint to it. I also want to note that in between her different vomiting moments, she went to use the bathroom and yet again didn't cover her pee. There was quite a lot of it considering she hasn't been drinking much all day, and it had a stronger smell to it. Not a smell I can describe but her pee usually doesn't smell at all, but that's likely because she usually covers it.
She hasn't thrown up since but hasn't been able to settle. She still looks kind of "out of it", she doesn't look like she's stumbling or dizzy but I can definitely tell she's not feeling well. She's wandering around the house and not sitting or lying down for too long. She hasn't drank and won't eat her wet dinner. She'll somewhat engage in her toys when I try to play with her, her tail will twitch and her eyes get big as if she's interested but she won't physically engage and I'm not trying to push her, but at least she's still somewhat interested.
I also wanted to mention that we do have a second cat who is a bit older than her who is not exhibiting any of this behavior or these symptoms, she seems totally fine. Annie does have a history of having a sensitive stomach, it took us a long time to find a dry food that didn't give her diarrhea but we eventually found one and haven't changed her diet since. We've not fed her anything different than usual, we don't think there's anything she could've gotten into but it's not something we're ruling out.
I decided to post here because I've expressed all of this to my husband who is also worried about her, but when I mentioned the emergency vet because of the pink in her vomit (all regular vets close at 5 here, so it's too late to go to one of those) he said it wasn't that important yet and isn't willing to spend however much it would cost to take her to an emergency vet, and I'm not able to drive to take her anywhere myself.
I'm just stressing out because of her history of having stomach problems, and I've never seen her vomit more than once in a day. I plan on sleeping in the living room with her tonight to keep an eye on her and hopefully my husband will be more willing to take her to the vet tomorrow if she hasn't improved, but if she doesn't eat or drink all day, and keeps throwing up, I don't know what to do or how to help her.
So as a bit of prior information, I've been concerned about her for maybe a week or longer. She suddenly had an increased appetite, wasn't necessarily overeating but seemed hungrier than usual. She's also been crying at the bedroom door at night and in the morning more often, and started to stick her whole arm under the door and pull which rattles the door and disturbs our sleep, and the paw action is new behavior for her. Other than this, her litter box habits, drinking and play time seemed completely normal. But I'm unsure if any of this is related.
As for today, it started this morning. She didn't eat her breakfast like she usually does. I put this down to maybe her still being full from the night before as I decided to give her and our other cat more food, but they didn't eat all of it as I ended up sitting with them for a bit when the pawing at the door started. I also saw her hop out of the litter box after using it and she didn't cover her pee, which she usually always does. Again, I put this down to her maybe being excited to get her breakfast as I didn't realise she was in the box when I started to serve their food. She seemed sleepier than usual, sleeping during hours she's usually whining at me to play with her, but we let her sleep.
Then about an hour ago, after me successfully engaging her in some light play with a wand toy, she hopped down from the bed where I was playing with her and threw up. There wasn't much, and it was liquidy and brown with what I thought was a pink tint to it when I brought it into the light. About 30 minutes after that, she sat in the middle of the floor seeming sleepy and she eventually curled her feet under herself and laid down. I was watching her the whole time during this. I then decided to leave the room for a moment and heard her throw up again, and it was the same kind of brown liquid, but much less and with more of a pink tint to it. I also want to note that in between her different vomiting moments, she went to use the bathroom and yet again didn't cover her pee. There was quite a lot of it considering she hasn't been drinking much all day, and it had a stronger smell to it. Not a smell I can describe but her pee usually doesn't smell at all, but that's likely because she usually covers it.
She hasn't thrown up since but hasn't been able to settle. She still looks kind of "out of it", she doesn't look like she's stumbling or dizzy but I can definitely tell she's not feeling well. She's wandering around the house and not sitting or lying down for too long. She hasn't drank and won't eat her wet dinner. She'll somewhat engage in her toys when I try to play with her, her tail will twitch and her eyes get big as if she's interested but she won't physically engage and I'm not trying to push her, but at least she's still somewhat interested.
I also wanted to mention that we do have a second cat who is a bit older than her who is not exhibiting any of this behavior or these symptoms, she seems totally fine. Annie does have a history of having a sensitive stomach, it took us a long time to find a dry food that didn't give her diarrhea but we eventually found one and haven't changed her diet since. We've not fed her anything different than usual, we don't think there's anything she could've gotten into but it's not something we're ruling out.
I decided to post here because I've expressed all of this to my husband who is also worried about her, but when I mentioned the emergency vet because of the pink in her vomit (all regular vets close at 5 here, so it's too late to go to one of those) he said it wasn't that important yet and isn't willing to spend however much it would cost to take her to an emergency vet, and I'm not able to drive to take her anywhere myself.
I'm just stressing out because of her history of having stomach problems, and I've never seen her vomit more than once in a day. I plan on sleeping in the living room with her tonight to keep an eye on her and hopefully my husband will be more willing to take her to the vet tomorrow if she hasn't improved, but if she doesn't eat or drink all day, and keeps throwing up, I don't know what to do or how to help her.
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