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  • My old cat is losing weight fast?

    He is 15 this year and started puking about four months ago and the vet said he had kidney failure. We elected not to have him scanned for cancer - there didn't seem much point in paying for the scan when it wouldn't be treatable either way.

    So we stopped giving him dried food and now feed him only on the tinned stuff as he can't digest the dry stuff.

    He currently eats 4-5 of those little 85g tins a day but in the last four month's he's gotten very skinny even though that's twice what he used to eat when he was healthy and he now only seems to throw up once every week or so (he's an outdoor cat so he may be throwing up discretely elsewhere, but I doubt it as he's too arthritic to go far). He also seems to be losing a lot of fur but there are no bald patches yet.

    We tried worming him just in case that was contributing to the weight loss but it doesn't appear to have made a difference.

    I know he's dying from the kidney failure but I guess the question is... what can I do to make him more comfortable? He still seems to be generally content and likes a good cuddle as much as he always did so I don't think it's sleep time yet but I hate seeing him so thin. He looks like a street cat!

    Is there anything I can do for him?

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