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State of the Fish
Feb. 3rd, 2018 08:45 amGetting food down a cat with a syringe is intensely unglamorous. Just saying. Gotta do it, and it's making her feel better after just two goes--wow she hates it while it's going on though. There's medical treatment for you. The vet yesterday didn't find anything alarming, it's just that she's lethargic and not eating and a bit sniffly, which...turns out maps pretty damn well to a recognized pattern of cats losing a companion (my other cat Jones) and getting droopy and non-eaty and catching a cold or flu as a result of feeling crappy.
Jones went pretty suddenly, and I think it took her about a week to realize he was gone. Since then, yeah, she hasn't been eating much. And she's been clingy. And she's been sleeping in places that he liked to sleep and still smell like him, like my fabric trunk. And she definitely has sniffles.
She is an old kitty, she's had a course of antibiotics, and we have fluids and recovery food and love to cram at her until she feels better, which will probably take another week or two. She will probably be fine.
Also, everything I read about bereaved kitties is very stern about DO NOT GO OUT AND GET A KITTEN. Pffff. :D It's like that's a thing that happens all the time somehow.
Jones went pretty suddenly, and I think it took her about a week to realize he was gone. Since then, yeah, she hasn't been eating much. And she's been clingy. And she's been sleeping in places that he liked to sleep and still smell like him, like my fabric trunk. And she definitely has sniffles.
She is an old kitty, she's had a course of antibiotics, and we have fluids and recovery food and love to cram at her until she feels better, which will probably take another week or two. She will probably be fine.
Also, everything I read about bereaved kitties is very stern about DO NOT GO OUT AND GET A KITTEN. Pffff. :D It's like that's a thing that happens all the time somehow.
