Things have been improving over the past 12-24 hours.
We've decided to really get more aggressive feeding Ladykitty rather than just let her go without. It turns out that cats, especially older obese cats, can run the risk of hepatic lipidosis. Everything I read on the web seemed to indicate keeping the cat eating could be the one thing that helps them turn around, and letting them become anorexic could mean a PEG tube or even death. Lady hasn't been eating any of her usual food, and we have tried everything including her all-time favorite, human canned tuna, all to no avail.
The vet said that cats often will get too much acid in their digestive tract, and can cause gastric ulcers, esophagitis or mouth ulcers. So we started the Pepcid 5mg every day. Now that she's had a dose, I figure it was time to try.
Per the vet's suggestion, we bought Gerber canned baby food (we're working on the chicken one, but also have turkey -- oddly they don't have a version for tuna). We thin it down with either warm water or "cat milk" that roomie picked up today. Her first feeding at 9am only got about 5cc, but just now at 330pm we got about 18 cc into her with minimal difficulty.
I'll be ecstatic when I catch her having a bm using our fancy Litter-cam, as mentioned earlier.
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