I was kind of busy on Sunday and hadn’t seen Sylvia all day, but this is not unusual. When the evening snack time came around (around 10 pm), I was surprised that she wasn’t upstairs waiting for it. I went downstairs to see what was up and noticed that she had not eaten her previous two meals (she has an automatic feeder). She also threw up a number of times. I know that cats can’t go long without eating, so I called the vet first thing Monday morning and they got me in later that morning.
They did an x-ray to check for an obstruction but everything looked good with that. The vet said we could do bloodwork but she didn’t think it was a systemic issue, so we held off on that. They took her temperature and found that she had a pretty high fever (105) so that pointed to some sort of illness or infection, but since she’s an inside cat and doesn’t live with other cats, the cause was not obvious.
So, they gave her fluids for the dehydration, a shot of ampicillin for the possible infection, and a Cerenia injection for the nausea. I was expecting a bit of a turnaround after that, but she just slept on her bed all day and didn’t eat anything. Before bed, she ate the tiniest bit of food (some chicken baby food and tuna). But, when I got up at 5:30 am to feed the dogs, she was walking around and had eaten some of her dry food. Later, when I got up for real, I gave her more tuna and baby food and she ate that. So, I think that means she’s doing better now. Let’s hope that is the case.