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My cat has not eaten or drunk for two days, won’t get up, seems weak in the legs, and looks near death.
Two days without food or water with weakness is dehydration from disease; long starvation causes electrolyte loss and can be fatal. Causes include distemper, gastroenteritis, nutritional deficiency, parasites, or poisoning. Give glucose water and see a vet at once.
Why Is a Cat’s Stool Not Formed?
Unformed stool may come from indigestion or parasites. Feed probiotics and light food; if it worsens, get a fecal test.
What Happens If a Cat Eats Cold Canned Food?
Cold cans irritate the gut, causing cramps, diarrhea and vomiting, even acute gastroenteritis. Serve at room temperature; use kibble as staple to avoid pickiness and oral disease.
What Happens If a Cat Vomits White Foam?
White foam may be hairballs, gastroenteritis or poisoning. If it is hairballs with normal spirit, give hairball paste; if mixed with yellow/green bile, it is acute gastroenteritis, see a vet.
My Cat Has Vomited for Days, with Hair in the Vomit and Yellow Fluid; Gave Cimetidine and Albendazole. What Is Wrong?
Vomiting in cats has many causes, including poor diet, hairballs, gastroenteritis, pancreatitis, drug irritation or panleukopenia. Fast the cat for a day and use probiotics and cimetidine; if no improvement, see a vet.
What is the tailless cat like?
The tailless cat is gentle, very friendly to humans and enjoys interacting and playing. It is intelligent and can learn commands like a dog, but its lifespan is only 10 to 15 years due to genetic defects causing arthritis and urinary issues. Care requires controlling diet and dental hygiene.
What is a normal cat stool like?
Normal cat stool is brown, short and cylindrical, firm and intact. Loose or pellet-like stool suggests hairballs or dehydration; watery stool signals serious illness.
Won’t eat, drinks a little water, has difficulty defecating, seems to pass blood, hind legs weak, dry heaving.
Many diseases cause anorexia; if mild, probiotics and soft food help, but dry heaving and difficult defecation may mean a bone or foreign body causing constipation or obstructive enteritis needing X-ray and possibly surgery. See a vet.
After eating a wet food, my cat ran wildly and vomited undigested food, then frequently foams a little at the mouth and licks its tongue; still bright but eating less. What should I do?
This likely relates to gut discomfort from excess stomach acid, poor motility, or the wet food quality; stop the food, use anti-emetic and probiotics, and see a vet if diarrhea or lethargy follows.
A four-month-old cat suddenly lost appetite and vomits yellow fluid, nine times in two days; ate a pesticide earlier and half an amoxicillin capsule. The pet hospital is closed, the cat’s nose and paw pads are pale. What do I do? Urgent!
Yellow vomit suggests gastroenteritis from diet or, if unvaccinated, possible obstruction or panleukopenia; tests include blood work, SAA, ultrasound, and a panleukopenia test. Pale nose and paws mean anemia and dehydration needing fluids; at home give glucose and anti-emetics.