My almost 18-year-old cat seems to have gone deaf and a bit loopy. She stands or sits and stares as if she's observing some invisible animal. I think she's hallucinating. She can still manage to jump on the furniture, with a few misses now and then. But she is decidedly listless and lethargic, showing absolutely no desire to play. The beginning of the end?
Sniff.
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I'm sorry to hear that your cat is becoming more and more lethargic! If she's suddenly gone listless, you may want to check to see if she's still eating AND using her litter box. Could be the end, but it could also be a bout of something easily fixed by a vet visit too.
Either way, congrats on getting her to 18, and my sympathies over her old age.
That's good advice. I will wait a couple of days for the vet. One possibility is that I know she wasn't eating for about a week, because I made a misguided attempt to offer her canned food rather than dry. She has lost a couple of teeth, and I thought the moist food would be easier. In fact, she wouldn't eat it, nor would she eat the dry food I finally got for her, because it wasn't the one she had been used to. I got the old dry food, and she's eating (a bit at least). I'll give it a couple more days to see if she feels better...
Oh, the ins and outs of cat pickiness. It could be that fact she wasn't eating that's making her currently listless, and entirely possible she could perk up over the days as she eats more.
I hope she gets back to her old self soon!
I hope your kitty cat is doing OK. We get so attached to our pets it's hard to let them go.....
Marc, you could try moistening the dry food with some water, like for the kittens, this would make it easier for her to eat, also providing some hydration (good for oos kidneys) but still keeping the smell and taste that she likes so much.
Please keep us informed about her.
Cat news. Returned to the old food, and she is not a fat cat, but has put back on some weight. She is more or less normal (old, decrepit normal). She actually plays a bit, and when she sits and contemplates the world, you can tell that she is no longer seeing invisible creatures. Her main topic of contemplation is "should I go back to sleep here, or move somewhere else? Or maybe compromise by sleeping here, but in a different position. So many choices!"
She even occasionally purrs again, but mostly she just bitches about everything, which these days is her new normal. After that period of apathy, bitching is fine by me.
The jumping into bed is getting harder, and the bedding is taking a beating from the clawing/scrambling up. Time for a box or something to help her get up more easily.
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