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Con
My kitty is very darn skinny. She's 12 years old just 4.4lbs. We do feed her enough, even more then that, like a piece of sausage every day, and some coffee milk. Though she's as picky as hell and doesn't want to eat her senior food unless you hand feed it, which ends up in cut open hands. So she usually just gets her special food, since she also got bladder problems.
Is there anything else we can feed her that isn't too bad for her? Because I'm pretty sure the sausage treatment of my dad is giving her isn't that good for her, and she isn't getting any heavier from it too.
>> Con
>>114103
she was 2 or 3times as heavy as she is now, and she lost the weight in about a year.
>> Anonymous
>>114108
vet, seriously.
asking people on 4chan won't help, she has kind of health problem for sure.
>> Con
>>114110
The vet in our town is more for lifestock then housepets... our male cat was traumatized when he fixed him...
I think the avarage /an/ 4channer has more pet knowledge then him.
>> Anonymous
>>114113
Then take a road trip to a town/city that has a proper cat vet. It'll be an adventure for you and your cat :D
>> Anonymous
>>114113
yeah, but a 4channer can't check her vital signs, blood parameters, function of organs and so on.
if you really want to help her, take her to proper vet. asap.
>> Anonymous
if she has bladder problems and is losing weight she might have diabeties, so does my cat =(
>> Anonymous
>>114104
Ghost cat is ghost.
>> Anonymous
She might have hyperthyroidism.

TAKE HER TO A VET AND DO ROUTINE BLOODWORK.

Do NOT give human food or ANY milk, they can't digest that stuff properly.

At the vet's there are special diets made for cats with all sorts of diseases, including very palatable ones.

Seriously. She's old. Take her to the vet's office soon.
>> Anonymous
Hyperthyroid cats usually are very skinny, no matter how much they eat.

This is a very common disease in older cats.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
Is your cat noticeabley drinking more water and peeing more than usual too?
Being it could be diabetes, regardless go to a proper vet.
>> Anonymous
I'm too lazy to read the other posts, so maybe someone else has said this, but:

Regular cat food helps cats gain weight. My mother had made homemade food for our cats for a long time, but our littlest cat, Timber, was just like your cat: tiny and scrawny. So eventually we discovered that there's a natural chemical in cat food that helps cats metabolise. It's a chemical normally found in the brains of mice. Anyway, once we switched to store bought cat food, within a week she had gained easily five pounds, and was finally a normal sized cat. :D So there's my two cents, hope it helps.
>> Anonymous
Also: everyone's right about the milk. Once cats are weaned, they're lactose intolerant like hell. Like, pooping blood amounts of lactose intolerant.
>> Anonymous
>>114387

Do you mean Taurine, maybe? Cats fed a diet of cooked meat are deficient in taurine; it's destroyed in the meat by cooking-temperature heat. Taurine deficiency in cats can lead to blindness, I'm not so sure about wasting though.

^Anyways, if you're feeding your cat nothing but sausage, taurine deficiency could also be an issue, although I'm certain that cooked meat destroys plenty more nutrients than that. Sausages are also packed fuck-full of nitrate and nitrite preservatives which are bad for anyone in any amount, and considerably more so if they're the only staple in your diet. If you're going to feed the kitty real meat it either needs to be raw or supplemented with what cooking takes away from it; otherwise, find an inventive new way to make her eat the plain kitty kibble/wet mush (that stuff has plenty of its own problems, though)