State of the Cat

[serinde]

Abdominal ultrasound: nothing. Blood test: various stressors from, oh, NOT EATING, but nothing diagnostically significant. Chest x-ray: will be back this afternoon, but I'm betting nothing there, either.

They've given him an appetite stimulant and he's started chowing down in his normal piglike fashion--he's already gained a pound back just since being at the hospital.

Probable diagnosis: Mage is a drama queen who has decided to go on hunger strike over some vexation instead of peeing on the bed (his usual protest statement), and as cats will, got into a state where having not eaten for awhile he doesn't feel like starting again. If this be the case, it's just a question of jump-starting him with appetite stimulants for a week or so and then he should be back to normal.

Until the next stressor.

Like moving.

Gah.

Comments

[lillilah]

When Roger got really really deathly ill, it turned out that he had formed an allergy to his cat food. Sounds like you all have everything, so you have probably already tried changing that, but I thought I would mention it.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Well, but he was turning down wet food, too. And canned salmon. And people food. Only thing he'd chow on is tuna.

Though, as you say, it could have started there...