There's something seriously wrong with my Kitty...
She's gone from overly playful spunky chubby kitty to anorexic kitty who won't eat and barely drinks water. This all began last week....
She was sick, throwing up.. figured she ate something bad.. but she wouldn't purr or anything she just wanted to sit on Michael or I.. 2 days later she'd purr so I thought she was beginning to feel better.. She still won't eat though. She's so skinny now it's pathetic. She's drinking little bits of water.. She ate about 2 bites of chicken yesterday. She seems interested in food, sniffs at it and such like she's going to eat it, but won't. She's not really throwing up anymore... I do know that she's dehydrated, if you pull her skin (of which she has tons of now due to the loss of weight!) it just stays. We've tried everythign we can think of to encourage her to eat and drink to no avail. She'll follow us around and she'll run out the door, and she'll "talk" but she no longer plays, at all. I keep thinking I am going to come home and find her dead on my pillow =(
I know the solution - take her to the vet! Yep, well, see since we bought the house and did the remodel, there is *NO* $$ to be able to spend to take her to the vet (the remodel maxed the cc's etc).. I just don't know what to do - I feel really bad about it, I feel so bad that she's sick and I know there's not much I can do.. I just keep hoping she'll get better.. btw she's an indoor only cat, she has only been outside like twice and only *very* briefly - i.e. long enough for us to chase her and get her back in the house. She's been in our house since her birth. I know she has ear mites (she got them from Sabbath, her mom).. but that shouldn't cause her to be THIS sick.. and we've treated her for ear mites.
Ideas anyone?
She was sick, throwing up.. figured she ate something bad.. but she wouldn't purr or anything she just wanted to sit on Michael or I.. 2 days later she'd purr so I thought she was beginning to feel better.. She still won't eat though. She's so skinny now it's pathetic. She's drinking little bits of water.. She ate about 2 bites of chicken yesterday. She seems interested in food, sniffs at it and such like she's going to eat it, but won't. She's not really throwing up anymore... I do know that she's dehydrated, if you pull her skin (of which she has tons of now due to the loss of weight!) it just stays. We've tried everythign we can think of to encourage her to eat and drink to no avail. She'll follow us around and she'll run out the door, and she'll "talk" but she no longer plays, at all. I keep thinking I am going to come home and find her dead on my pillow =(
I know the solution - take her to the vet! Yep, well, see since we bought the house and did the remodel, there is *NO* $$ to be able to spend to take her to the vet (the remodel maxed the cc's etc).. I just don't know what to do - I feel really bad about it, I feel so bad that she's sick and I know there's not much I can do.. I just keep hoping she'll get better.. btw she's an indoor only cat, she has only been outside like twice and only *very* briefly - i.e. long enough for us to chase her and get her back in the house. She's been in our house since her birth. I know she has ear mites (she got them from Sabbath, her mom).. but that shouldn't cause her to be THIS sick.. and we've treated her for ear mites.
Ideas anyone?