Do you have any canned A/D? adding that to your watered down food goop is a good idea, also any digestive enzymes (like Prozyme etc) to go along with the nutri-cal. If she's just starting to get decent and enough food again, then anything you give her is going to cause g/i distress, so be prepared for some mess. How dehydrated is she? Do the skin tent test on the back of her neck and if it doesn't snap back, you need to supplement her water intake - just use an oral syringe to slowly squirt water in her mouth. The sub-Q fluids is a good idea too. And Michelle is right about fatty liver disease (hepatic lipidosis) being from NO food for days as opposed to not nearly enough for a long time. Monitor her tonight, make sure the plumbing works:) and give her scritches and kisses from me:)
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Someone brought me a starved cat (young adult I think). She is eating my goo mixture of wet cat food, Nutri-cal, and water, but she is desperately thin. She's obviously dehydrated, but since I've gotten wet food mixture into her, she has already perked up. Can you guys please remind me of what happens to a cat that is starved? Is it renal failure they get from being starved? She seems very wobbly in her back legs now, and you can see every bone in her body. Her body temp was so low when she first got here that I thought she was dying. I put her on a heating pad, and now her body temp feels much more normal (I don't have a thermometer). She laid there like she was dead for the first hour, then she began to shiver, now she seems OK. I can't afford a emergency vet trip right now, so I need to do what I can for her tonight. I gave her a bit of Beyer's yogurt that I had (blueberry flavor), because it was the only thing I had in the house with potassium in it, and I remember someone saying that weak back legs can be helped with potassium, I think. She probably weighs 2 pounds max right now. She is a tiny Siamese mix (has the big Siamese voice and ice blue eyes), seal point, with white chest, muzzle and feet. She appears to have her adult teeth, but she is TINY for an adult. Any advice appreciated. She just found the couch and jumped up on it, I think she was a house cat at some point. I'd hate to let someone's beloved missing pet die tonight, please help me!
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