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My Skinny Old Boy
Apr. 17th, 2009 11:55 amI'm concerned about Rowley, my elderly Siamese cat, whose weight seems to have dropped to half of what it was last year. He's pictured in this icon, but he doesn't look like that anymore -- all that muscle is gone, and I can feel the knobs of his spine and all of his sharp joints. At his last vet visit he weighed 12 pounds. He couldn't possibly weigh more than 5 or 6 now.
Yet he isn't acting sick at all. He eats his meals with gusto, has no litter box problems, and is the same intelligent, demanding prince he always was. He snuggles with Benjamin and naps on his heated mat. On Wednesday he ate a quarter-pound of shaved deli turkey in one sitting. His real age is unknown, but he's somewhere between 13 and 20+.
He loathes vet visits more than anything, but I'm afraid we're going to have to go in. It's possible that this is normal -- I don't have much experience with geriatric cats. He might be just losing muscle and fat the way we humans do when we're very old. But I need to find out if anything else is wrong.
Yet he isn't acting sick at all. He eats his meals with gusto, has no litter box problems, and is the same intelligent, demanding prince he always was. He snuggles with Benjamin and naps on his heated mat. On Wednesday he ate a quarter-pound of shaved deli turkey in one sitting. His real age is unknown, but he's somewhere between 13 and 20+.
He loathes vet visits more than anything, but I'm afraid we're going to have to go in. It's possible that this is normal -- I don't have much experience with geriatric cats. He might be just losing muscle and fat the way we humans do when we're very old. But I need to find out if anything else is wrong.