Monday, October 18, 2010

Felinity

Our cat may be sick. Or not.

She's been acting weird, last few days. Doesn't come out to sleep in the kitchen or one of the bedrooms. Doesn't eat cat treats. On the other hand, she's eating, input and output, normally, and still goes through the normal manic phases.

I really don't want to pay for another visit to the vet, so that she can lecture us about I don't like that collar, and You really should be giving her organic cat food, and I really do think I should do a baseline series of diagnostic tests. That gets old, pretty quick. And the frosting on the cake is that it always takes them about ten minutes to generate a bill at the end.

Yuck.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Sometimes they just go through phases. Ours do similar stuff; they decide they don't like something, so they stop doing it. And then they'll decide they like it, again. Or not.

The main thing to keep an eye on is their daily food and pooping. If their nose becomes damp, or if they do something truly strange. (We're dealing with a bout of ear mites at the moment. Lots of angry scratching of ears and the like.)

You might want to check the places she used to play or sleep for something "yukky". Did she pee in her sleep? Or is there something that needs a wash? Or simply fluffing?

Did you change the brand of cat treat? If not, perhaps she's tired of the same old flavors. If you did, perhaps she wants the same old flavors.

Cats can be very contrary. I don't know if you've noticed... :-)

Cerulean Bill said...

Actually, we did change her food, based on what the vet said. We didn't go organic, but we went with name brand. Maybe we should switch back?

Unknown said...

You could try that. One of our cats, Oliver, won't eat certain brands of cat treats. And Cousin is very particular about her dry food - which is an issue because she only eats dry food! (And then there's Maxine. She's a feline vacuum cleaner...)