by Nikki
(Phoenix, AZ USA)
I apologize if this is a repeat question. My cat is to soon be 15 years old, and he's not had any problems in the last decade. I moved 2500 miles from home, by car, with him and ever since we got here it has been one issue after another. Before I left, I had my vet give him a checkup and asked about his weight loss. She did blood work and then told me he's a healthy aging cat, and when they get older they loose weight. He has weighed about 16lbs his whole life and in 2 months went down to 12. I've been in my apartment for 2 months and had to take him to the vet right away because I thought he'd lost more, and he was down to 11.2lbs and constantly throwing up. The vet said it was hairballs (once in a blue moon he would have at home) and gave me some stuff in a tube to squirt down his throat. So that subsided and then he started having diarrhea, luckily in his litter box, so they gave me medication. Then he stopped eating and went down some more, so they gave me steroids, and he slowly starting eating like a bite a day. I switched his food back to something he always liked, and still the same small appetite. Now its been a month and he's crying a lot and is very vocal (usually a quiet cat) and still not eating much. I noticed his skin on his back has red spots and his stomach
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