Dear Friends,
Does anyone have experience with an FeLV+ cat who becomes anorexic for no apparent reason? My friend Joan took in a pair of young FeLV+ cats about 2 months ago. One male and one female. They were spayed and neutered and given their shots and seemed asymptomatic and fine; playful and eating.
Fluffy, the female, has stopped eating. There seems to be nothing wrong with her: no URI problems, no evident anemia, no mouth ulcers, no obvious health problems of any kind. She is in a large floor-to-ceiling cage-like enclosure with her FeLV+ mate; the cage is spacious (we go in and sit with them), has a nice bed, scratching posts, perches built into the cage, etc.
BUT, it's still a cage. I took her out yesterday and over to an open window and she seemed to perk up slightly. I swear this cat seems depressed!
My Also-Rerun had cancer and began to refuse food, and, that hasn't been yet ruled out for Fluffy, but I just have a gut feelling that there is something psychological going on with this cat.
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?
Thanks for any advice!
Love, Julie
"I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is
to protection by man from the cruelty of man. "
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
by the way its animals are treated."
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
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