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Gretta is losing weight. She's seven this year. I've seen her drinking and she's seems to be eating - she had some wet food earlier and she devoured a handful of Temptations; she wasn't interested in kibble but that could be because she just didn't want the stuff given other options... and she's been cuddling, purring, and grooming our faces as avidly as ever, and she doesn't seem to be overly lethargic or sleeping more than usual... The only symptom of anything wrong is that she's thrown up a handful of times this week.
She's always been just-this-side-of-too-chubby so we were happy when she started whittling herself down a few weeks ago - we assumed Alex had coaxed her into more play than usual. Our vet has said she's supposed to be 9.5-10lbs so we still didn't worry when she stabilised 9.2-9.3ish, but last week we both got wretchedly busy and didn't weigh her for several days and yesterday she was down to 8.8 and now I'm terrified
I KNOW she's probably fine. DH and I promised ourselves we'd hold off on worrying about her until she dropped below 9, and it's not like 8.8 is hugely out of range, and she's going to the vet first thing tomorrow morning, but... well, it's been one thing after another since end of May and I'm a nervous wreck when it comes to my furbabies at the best of times, and the last time one of our cats started inexplicably losing weight he (her brother, five years ago) was diagnosed with liver failure symptomatic of FIP and we were told he probably had a couple of weeks left, and...
The other three are fine. I do remember when Garret was ill Gretta wouldn't leave his side, and none of the others are behaving oddly at all, so that makes me hopeful that it isn't anything serious... I don't often ask, but I'd really appreciate any dust you can spare.
She's always been just-this-side-of-too-chubby so we were happy when she started whittling herself down a few weeks ago - we assumed Alex had coaxed her into more play than usual. Our vet has said she's supposed to be 9.5-10lbs so we still didn't worry when she stabilised 9.2-9.3ish, but last week we both got wretchedly busy and didn't weigh her for several days and yesterday she was down to 8.8 and now I'm terrified
I KNOW she's probably fine. DH and I promised ourselves we'd hold off on worrying about her until she dropped below 9, and it's not like 8.8 is hugely out of range, and she's going to the vet first thing tomorrow morning, but... well, it's been one thing after another since end of May and I'm a nervous wreck when it comes to my furbabies at the best of times, and the last time one of our cats started inexplicably losing weight he (her brother, five years ago) was diagnosed with liver failure symptomatic of FIP and we were told he probably had a couple of weeks left, and...
The other three are fine. I do remember when Garret was ill Gretta wouldn't leave his side, and none of the others are behaving oddly at all, so that makes me hopeful that it isn't anything serious... I don't often ask, but I'd really appreciate any dust you can spare.