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Get Your Senior Cat Checked For Kidney Disease
Kidney disease seems to be a common problem in older cats, it's best to get them checked yearly from age 7 and older, if not you could run into the unfortunate situation we went through with our cat Cuddles.Cuddles was a happy, healthy and fairly active, twelve year old cat. We spoiled her, along with our other cat Frisky. Back in late March, early April, she started eating less and lost some
weight.
She didn't really seem to have any of the early signs, excessive thirst and urination, the first thing that told me something may be wrong was that she was losing weight. She had always fluctuated around fourteen or fifteen pounds, she was a little on the heavy side, so when she went down to thirteen pounds I wasn't too worried, but started keeping a close eye on her. Next thing I know she lost another two pounds down to eleven.
We took her to the vets, thinking maybe it was her teeth or something, he checked her out, asked the symptoms and asked if she had eaten any of the recalled food. As far as I can remember, neither her or Frisky had any of the recalled food.The vet suspected it could have something to do with her kidneys, but he wasn't 100% sure, he wanted her back on Monday for a full blood test, we had taken her in on a Friday.While we were waiting for Monday to come her condition started to get worse, she stopped eating, didn't drink much, lost another pound (down to 10 pounds) and just wanted to lay around and sleep, although she mostly just layed around and seemed uncomfortable.Monday finally came and she went for her tests and then more waiting for the blood tests to come back. It seemed like a very long day. Then on Monday afternoon, the test came back and confirmed what the vet thought, it was her kidneys and she wasn't doing well. Almost all her levels that were checked from the blood test came back ten times higher than they should be.As the vet put it, if she was a dog, they would have recommended putting her to sleep, but since cats have a better chance at rebounding, he wanted to start treatments on her. She's getting IV treatments and they will also feed her with a tube to try and help get her weight back up. She had to stay there for two days with the IV treatments and then he wanted to test her blood again and go from there.
Needless to say, we were all sad and worried about Cuddles. We were able to visit her while she spent time in the hospital and the kids even made get well pictures for her. She was the comfort kitty, the one who will lay with you when you don't feel good, so the kids, especially my eight year old, are took it pretty hard that she was so sick. It's hard when all we could do was say they're doing all they can, I wanted to promise that she would be home soon and be fine, but I know I couldn't do that, I wasn't going to lie to them. Being brave for the kids was definitely hard, telling them it was OK to be sad and just trying to comfort them.Frisky, our other cat, kept walking around the house looking for Cuddles, it's easy to see he missed her too, Cuddles was like a surrogate mother to him.After the second set of tests came back, the vet said it didn't look good, he would suggest putting her to sleep. I couldn't deal with that, I wasn't ready to let Cuddles go. We contacted another vet and took her in and explained the situation, they wanted to start her on a special food for weight gain in cats and start SubQ treatments. They showed us how to do the treatments, gave us some other medicine for her and sent us home. By Kat - I'm a mom of five, three kids, two cats and one loving husband.
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