Snuggler said:
my chippy
sorry to bump for sad stuff, but my youngest kitty in the quoted post is going through a hard time...
A few weeks ago I noticed that he was sleeping much more than usual. I didn't think it was a big deal until he wouldn't leave his bed at all and he stopped eating food. Normally he was obsessed with food and would steal the other cat's food and knock over trash for food and stuff. I took him to the vet and they said he has a blood parasite. They told us it would be treatable and that he would be fine, but he still wouldn't eat at all, even though we tried feeding him everything we could think of as well as stuffing his pills down his throat twice a day.
He was a very healthy cat but he's withered away and only weights about 7 pounds right now, which is 2 pounds less than he was when he was weighed as a 6 month old kitten. If you pet him you can feel every single bone in his body. He just went in again for another over night stay at the vet but I still can't get him to eat much or anything.
I'm doing everything I can but it's so depressing to see my kitty wither away, especially since he's only one year old. He's still a baby. We've tried everything and all we can hope for now is for him to just recover naturally, but I'm losing hope. We spoiled him so much but out of nowhere something like this happens...