Slight Change of Plans

[willowisp]

I had suspected that Gail wasn't eating, and last night callicrates and I confirmed it. We closed Gail in the room with us and monitored how much food she was given, and her little oink-oink of a sister was closed outside (with fresh water, since the fountain is in our room still). She ate nothing overnight, on top of not having eaten at all yesterday when Andy and I were watching. Her food dish is downstairs and we can see it from pretty much everywhere except our room, so the monitoring was more or less constant.

I called the vet today at 07:30 and got an appointment at 11:5 for tomorrow, then pushed it back to 11:30 because Andy has an important meeting starting at 10:00. The receptionist called back a few minutes later; the vet is coming in early and she offered us a 10:00 time slot for today. This is good because Gail gets seen sooner and Andy can work from home and not worry about bailing on his meeting.

I have no idea if Gail will still be getting her teeth cleaned on Thursday. I imagine a lot will depend upon how much she weighs and what can be done to get her eating in the next day and three-quarters. Since force-feeding most emphatically didn't work we have a new feeding strategy pending the emergency appointment: baby food.

Comments

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Ack. Hope Gail feels better soon.

[platypus]

Will she consider really, really stinky catfood? That's what helped my mom's cat Harry when she was having seizures and totally out of it -- she was uninterested in food, but if it smelled strongly enough it would get through to her. Of course, once the cats (and we couldn't just feed it to the sick one, the others wanted what SHE was getting) knew that stinky food existed, my mom had to feed it to them for the rest of their natural lives. Still worth it.

I hope Gail is okay. It could be as simple as a stuffy nose, since a lot of cats won't eat if they can't smell. Or teeth, as you note. Does she seem okay otherwise? I'm crossing my fingers.

[tyee.livejournal.com]

Hope the little furball feels better soon!