Cat Health Symptoms

cat health ?

MY family cat is 22 will be 23 in march. well she's an inside cat she use to be chubby but now she's skin and bones. she throws up a lot depending on the cat food. just recently she's been having her tongue out and doesn't put it back in her mouth for awhile or u touch it. could something be wrong with her health? any ideas what might be wrong? could she have had a stroke? she's been more annoying now like always wants to be on you or someone(that's why i think she's getting close to dying) cause people say they want more of ur attention and get close to u more when somethings wrong or going wrong. my mom fed her tuna and she liked that and actually kept that down. I told my mom to start buying can food that helps the digestive system. she hasn't thrown up lately. i'm trying to convince my mom to take her to the vet. She's such a big part of our family i don't know what will happen when she's gone. My mom has never taken that cat to the vet cause she's always been healthy with nothing wrong but i told my mom somethings gotta be wrong now so its time to do it. one time like 6 months ago she was laying and it didnt look like she was breathing i thought she was dead and i moved her touched her stomach and nothing so i was crying and told my mom and then my mom went back there n touched her n she woke up so that cats gonna give me a heart attack. she's mainly deaf and partially blind from what we can tell or maybe she just has selective hearing

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1. Congratulations on taking such excellent care of your cat for 22 years. She wouldn't have lived this long if she wasn't loved and well cared for. But realize that in human years your cat is about 98 years old and now especially she depends on you to help her out here. If she is "skin and bones" chances are she is very weak, maybe too weak and ill to hold her tongue in her mouth anymore. She is also probably very dehydrated("throws up a lot"). Is her tongue dry? It's hard to say if she had a stroke, possibly. But the more immediate concern is dehydration. Without adequate water in her body she can't fight off any illness that she may have or get better. Cats rarely live past 20 years old. She really needs a good vet check. There is something definitely wrong with her health. When my older cats started acting differently I said, "Well, she's just getting older." I didn't think to take her to the vet. That was a big mistake. Cats hide pain very well, usually until it's almost too late. Needless to say I finally took her and she had multiple problems and I lost her within a few days. I will never make that mistake again! First I would check her vital signs: http://www.sniksnak.com/cathealth/howto8.html (pay particular attention to respiration, color and hydration) Here's some other things to look for in an older cat: http://www.catchow.com/catcarecenter_4_vit_1.aspx?storyID=86&category=5 Other things to observe: If she drinking a lot of water, is she peeing a lot? Does she have diarrhea, has she stopped grooming herself, does she seem ravenous when she eats. These things could point to a possible thyroid problem. She could also have kidney disease which is common in old cats: http://www.cathospitalofaustin.com/Library/kidney_disease.htm Hope this helps. Note: She needs to be eating a senior food, wet and dry that is nutritious and easy for her to digest.
2. That's great to have such a senior citizen in your household. Her problems could be anything really. Seeing she is getting up there in years it might be a good idea to talk to her vet? That way you could find out exactly what is wrong with her and get medicines too if she needs them.