For all of you who have had kitties with chronic renal failure, can you give me an idea of what the symptoms are when it starts getting bad? Just curious because I'm assuming his problem is just the weather we're having is aggravating his arthritis, but how do I know it's not his kidneys starting to seriously fail?

He drinks whenever he gets up and whenever I bring a bowl of water to him, but he's really not eating much at all. He licked the gravy part of his wet food treat this morning, but again didn't eat the chunks. I broke them up into really tiny tiny pieces hoping he would eat them, but no such luck. Peanut was happy to help clean up the leftovers though - my little piglet girl.

I'm trying to see if I can get him into a vet either later today or tomorrow morning, but needless to say my regular vet is booked (sometimes they are just so helpful ) and my alternate vet is booked too, so I'm looking for another alternate. I just want a second opinion and to be sure it's just his arthritis.

Thanks so much for all your help!