My advice when your cat wont eat or drink based on what happened with my cat. When I came back from holiday and picked up my cat from the pet care hotel, my cat didn’t want to eat nor drink anymore. We all know that cats don’t drink that much, but when an obese cat like mine stops eating, it’s twice alarming for her cat health:
- because any time your cat stops eating, something is wrong
- fat cats start using up their fat when not eating, which leads to death of fatty liver disease.
First we thought our cat was healthy but only grumpy because we dropped her of at the pet hotel for 2 weeks. So we gave her some extra loving care but nothing changed.
- We noticed our cat going into hiding mode, only to pretend very healthy when a family member dropped by. This is typical cat behavior: they retreat when they are sick but when they are spotted, they will pretend that they are as healthy as ever as a surviving tactic not to get attacked by other predators.
- We also noticed that her fur looked a but strange and that she had a little wound on top of her head.
So we took our cat to the vet.
Luckily our vet is a real cat lover, so she noticed on the spot that the wound was a bite-mark of another cat.
After more examination, the vet found some critters in our cat’s fur and our cat’s skin was reacting in an allergic manner to the critters.
She prescribed antibiotics and gave us a can of Hills A/D prescription diet food.
As usual, our cat couldn’t resist the A/D food but for sure we are not going to put our cat at that particular pet care hotel anymore.
We will post more tips and tricks on this site how to intervene when your cat wont eat or drink.
