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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: moggy on 10 November 2013, 17:25:18
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Hi guys,do any of you have any experience of this.Our cat has just been diagnosed with this,been to the vets.Got meds,recomended food,iv for fluid,anti for infection.But he just wont eat or drink,or take his meds.It realy upsets me and the wife to,see him like this.I know we cant cure him but how do i make his,last bit of life good.Any thorughts welcome at this time :( :'(.Dean
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I guess get him hydrated and he'll feel more like eating...?
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Do you mean CJD ? Poor moggy.
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Chronic kidney disease.
Cats can make a miraculous recovery from it. Fingers crossed.
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Sorry for that. :-[
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Have you tried some natural honey on the back of a spoon they can lick? Some types are naturally anti-biotic and could help give both energy and a little kick in the nuts to the disease.
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sorry to hear that.. :( I think this link may provide more info than I can :-\
http://www.felinecrf.org/ (http://www.felinecrf.org/)
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If the meds are in tablet form, try crushing tablets up or opening capsules, and spread the powder in some sliced ham or turkey.
Or mix it in with some lick-e-lix, its like baby food for cats. 99p for 5 from Asda or similar. They just lick it up. No need to chew.
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I guess get him hydrated and he'll feel more like eating...?
Hi Chris,tryed this.Water in syring squirt in his mouth,not easey :y
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Do you mean CJD ? Poor moggy.
Sorry Ronnyd,i dont know what cjd is mate :(
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Have you tried some natural honey on the back of a spoon they can lick? Some types are naturally anti-biotic and could help give both energy and a little kick in the nuts to the disease.
Hi Guffer,i have not tryed it but i will :y
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Do you mean CJD ? Poor moggy.
Sorry Ronnyd,i dont know what cjd is mate :(
CJD is the mad cow diesease that the media were all het up over a few years back. Unrelated to CKD.
Poor put put :'(
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If the meds are in tablet form, try crushing tablets up or opening capsules, and spread the powder in some sliced ham or turkey.
Or mix it in with some lick-e-lix, its like baby food for cats. 99p for 5 from Asda or similar. They just lick it up. No need to chew.
Chris yes the meds are in tablet form.Tryed to crush them,mix with other food.But we have to try the reanal food aswell,so ham and turkey are out. :(
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What food have you been trying to get him to eat?
Have you tried cat food with gravy....ie wet food.....first it will smell very tempting and second will provide the water content, so drinking water isnt so important.
If you can get him to eat this.....then you can start to substitute, what he is suppose to eat.
As for getting him to take the tablets......go buy some cheap pate.....and push the tablet inside a small piece of pate......i used to to use butter when HollyDog had to take tablets.....but got a bollixing from the vet for it.....its too rich apparently....pate is ok tho :y
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sorry to hear that.. :( I think this link may provide more info than I can :-\
http://www.felinecrf.org/ (http://www.felinecrf.org/)
Thanks Cem,i looked at the site earlyer.But as i say i just want to make his life,better till the end.But to my shame i dont know how. :( :'(
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I'm really sorry to hear of your cats illness moggy, others have posted links but this one looks very comprehensive and appears to answer any questions you could possibly have. Best of Luck from another Poolie :(
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CEAQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.felinecrf.org%2Fhow_bad_is_it.htm&ei=HMl_Uv2OKceO0AXzt4HABw&usg=AFQjCNFftJUQ2chMhTmc4JhVnQV-Q3r4Kg
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What food have you been trying to get him to eat?
Have you tried cat food with gravy....ie wet food.....first it will smell very tempting and second will provide the water content, so drinking water isnt so important.
If you can get him to eat this.....then you can start to substitute, what he is suppose to eat.
As for getting him to take the tablets......go buy some cheap pate.....and push the tablet inside a small piece of pate......i used to to use butter when HollyDog had to take tablets.....but got a bollixing from the vet for it.....its too rich apparently....pate is ok tho :y
Hi taxi,he allways had wet food,jelly and gravy.The renal food is also wet,but he wont eat that either.I will try the pate approtch.Thanks for the replys guys, :y Dean
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What food have you been trying to get him to eat?
Have you tried cat food with gravy....ie wet food.....first it will smell very tempting and second will provide the water content, so drinking water isnt so important.
If you can get him to eat this.....then you can start to substitute, what he is suppose to eat.
As for getting him to take the tablets......go buy some cheap pate.....and push the tablet inside a small piece of pate......i used to to use butter when HollyDog had to take tablets.....but got a bollixing from the vet for it.....its too rich apparently....pate is ok tho :y
Hi taxi,he allways had wet food,jelly and gravy.The renal food is also wet,but he wont eat that either.I will try the pate approtch.Thanks for the replys guys, :y Dean
Will he eat that? the jelly and gravy? If so, mix it with the renal food bit by bit :)
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What food have you been trying to get him to eat?
Have you tried cat food with gravy....ie wet food.....first it will smell very tempting and second will provide the water content, so drinking water isnt so important.
If you can get him to eat this.....then you can start to substitute, what he is suppose to eat.
As for getting him to take the tablets......go buy some cheap pate.....and push the tablet inside a small piece of pate......i used to to use butter when HollyDog had to take tablets.....but got a bollixing from the vet for it.....its too rich apparently....pate is ok tho :y
Hi taxi,he allways had wet food,jelly and gravy.The renal food is also wet,but he wont eat that either.I will try the pate approtch.Thanks for the replys guys, :y Dean
Will he eat that? the jelly and gravy? If so, mix it with the renal food bit by bit :)
Taxi,been trying for 3 days,still no joy :(
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Sounds to me, Moggy, as if the poor thing has had enough. I would just try and make it as comfortable as possible.
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Sounds to me, Moggy, as if the poor thing has had enough. I would just try and make it as comfortable as possible.
Think you are right stmeo,but how.I have the wife crying constatly,down stairs.Life is a piece of shit sometimes. :(Sorry stemo
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Sounds to me, Moggy, as if the poor thing has had enough. I would just try and make it as comfortable as possible.
When its your pet and friend Steve....you've always got to try :)
Try the pate Dean....and to be honest....if he will eat ham/chicken/whatever i would give it to him....you can always try the other food once he's eating again :)
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Sounds to me, Moggy, as if the poor thing has had enough. I would just try and make it as comfortable as possible.
When its your pet and friend Steve....you've always got to try :)
Try the pate Dean....and to be honest....if he will eat ham/chicken/whatever i would give it to him....you can always try the other food once he's eating again :)
We will try the pate and other things,just want to do all we can.Thanks mate dean :y
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Sorry to hear this Moggy :'( Can hope and pray he pulls through .
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Sorry to hear this Moggy :'( Can hope and pray he pulls through .
Thanks emd,wont be for the lack of trying :y
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Is your cats stomach hot to the touch moggy ?
If so, keep your cat a cool as possible.
Even if it means letting it lay on the ice cold floor.
With cats and dogs, the blood vessels are closest to the surface under the stomach.
That's why they always lay flat in a cool place or with dogs, the first puddle they can find.
Our cat had something similar when I was a kid.
It wouldn't take water even though it was de hydrating because of its fever.
Iirc, my old man spent most of the night with it outside with the cat laid on the cold floor until its fever dropped.
Once it started to cool right down, she would take on water and within a day she was eating like her life depended on it ;)
Good luck :)
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Our
oxygen waster cat has recently had to start taking pills. We got some cat treats in the shape of long sticks of meaty stuff (think of a thin pepparoni) which are quite soft. Feed the cat a couple, which it laps up, then embed a pill in one, which it'll also lap up before it realises there's a pill inside. I'll find out where we got them later. :y
I do hope he makes a good recovery.
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They sounds like Lidl Kevin, our cat also loves them - although sometime he works out what is going on!
Steve
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Well we tryed evrything.Honey,pate,hand feeding food with water in a syring.He would not touch anything.Then this morning he calapsed while trying to get to his litter.We took him to the vets to see if there was anything they could do.But he was to weak so at 9.32,we took the disision.To let him go for a long sleep,i feel like shit.That i could not help him more,i just have to live with the fact i took his life.I hope it was the right choice,thanks for all your replys.Dean and tracy :( :'( :'( :'( :'(.
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The cat had a great life.
You did everything you could then you stopped the suffering :(
You did it right Dean :(
Sorry for your lost mate :(
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The cat had a great life.
You did everything you could then you stopped the suffering :(
You did it right Dean :(
Sorry for your lost mate :(
Thanks mate,Trigger was part of our family and we will remember him allways.I just wish i could stop my wife crying :(
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Unless I've missed it, Dean, you never said how old Trigger was?
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Unless I've missed it, Dean, you never said how old Trigger was?
Sorry mate he was 13,but i would have loved him to of reached 14 :(
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The cat had a great life.
You did everything you could then you stopped the suffering :(
You did it right Dean :(
Sorry for your lost mate :(
+1 Very sad , you did your best Moggy :'( :'( :'(
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Sorry to hear Dean :( but at 13, Tigger has had a good innings and you did the right thing :)
HollyDog is 12 in Jan and im not looking forward to her getting too old...
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Sorry for your loss mate,been there and done similar,it's never easy saying goodbye to an old friend,we've two new cats now and they are lovely but still miss our old one but it does get easier with time.
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Sorry to hear about this, but it sounds like you made the right decision however hard it is to swallow.
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Thanks for all your replies guys,the house is not the same without him. :(
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Sorry for you loss....... :( :(
Like others we are in a similar situation, Out old Lab 13 and the cat 12, recently had a scare with the dog...... :(
We knew when we got them that we would have to face this one day, sadly that day is looming - Miss Vamps in particular will be devastated.......