Well, my cat is sick. Sick as in “I don’t think she’s coming back from this one” sick. While not verified yet, I can tell. I’ve had cats before and I’ve seen the signs many times.
And it’s to be expected, I mean, I first got her in 2004 and she was already a fully grown cat then. Fully sized adult, even a little pudgy in the middle. I’ve had her almost the entire length of my membership here.
For the last two years, though, you could tell she was getting old. The vets even confirmed she was almost totally blind two years ago and deaf in one ear. Since then, she started getting the cat version of dementia and all that. Usually spending most of her days wandering aimlessly around the house, or even in complete circles sometimes… going to random parts of rooms, like she got lost. Meowing often, like she was lost or didn’t know where she was. Not an “I’m hurt/in pain” meow, just a curious “Where am I?” meow that grew more and more questioning throughout the months. She also started to rarely leave the living room, where her bed is. Last year and half, she’s lived exclusively from her bed to her bowl and not much else, where as she used to follow a person all over the house and love to explore, even an area she explored a thousand times already.
Anyway, last few months, she’s started throwing up more and more. Not being able to keep food down. Having kitty accidents around the house. Eating less and less. About six months ago her back legs started to go. Couldn’t really get them to work well any more. We took her to the vet who said it was just really bad arthritis and also confirmed she was totally blind now, almost fully deaf, and just …an old cat by now, although still seemingly in health that wasn’t bad. I always knew that she had to have been at least as old as 2 or 3 when I first got her…and maybe even as old as 4. That would make her 14 or 15 now, maybe as old as 16. About average for a housecat, I looked up.
Anyway, the last two weeks or so, she’s been throwing up a bit more. She’s still eating…which I take as a good since, kinda…but the last time she threw up (this morning), it was tinged with red. Blood, I assume. Usually it’s just white, but not any more. And her back legs hardly support her at all now. She’s going to have lost the use of them entirely in a month or so, if she lives that long.
Gonna take her to the vet again soon (as soon as I get paid again, because currently broke right now), and probably make the choice to put her down if it’s as bad as I suspect.
