Hi! I felt like posting here due to having some concern about my older cat, Woobie. The problem is, she just seems in generally poor health. She's been to the vet, and when she had bloodwork done they told us that she did have some liver function issues but that it wasn't serious yet. She's been on the Hills Perscription K/D diet for a while now (almost a year), and it seems her health is going very gradually downhill.
Our family has had Woobie for many years and I realize that some of these problems may very well just be due to natural aging. I believe she is about 15 now, however, and can't help but feel that her downhill spiral is a bit premature? She seems to have very little energy and very little appetite. She's always been an extremely picky eater and will not touch canned foods. She eats the Hill's Diet with moderation and used to really enjoy snacks like popcorn, a little milk or chicken, which we stopped giving her once she started her special diet. But she is very, very thin now. I monitor her eating habits very carefully to be sure she hasn't stopped, but she vomits rather frequently. You can pet her and feel bones sticking out under her fur, and her coat itself is dull, a little scraggly, and lately she's been losing very large clumps of it. Also, her claws seem to grow very erratically, which I thought was a sign of kidney problems? But I'm not sure.
I am definitely taking her to the vet again, but thought I might ask for people's viewpoints here as well? Maybe others have experienced similar problems with an older cat and know something that helps, or at very least makes her more healthy. I've heard that some cats really respond to different foods, especially canned foods with few byproducts, but I haven't yet been able to get her to eat any.
Thank you for reading my little novel here. I hope some of you might know what to do!
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