droopy cat

[cellio]

Saturday night my wonderful cat-sitters let me know that Erik had, uncharacteristically, not eaten the canned food in which I conceal his Ursodiol. (This is a maintenance drug.) He always attacks canned food vigorously, so that's peculiar. But for one night, well, maybe he was just feeling off, or was mad at me for abandoning him for the weekend, or whatever.

Tonight he ate a little bit of it (fresh round, just to clarify), but left most of it in the dish. He has not been clingy the way he usually is when I've been away; in fact, he's spent most of the evening sleeping, and did not climb into my lap while I was sitting and reading the way he usually does. He's just now wandered into my office for scritches, but is not jumping up on the desk and getting in the way of my typing the way he often does when he wants attention.

I've seen him drink water and use the litterbox today, so it's not dire. But it is odd. I wonder what's wrong with him. Tomorrow I'll see if the vet has any ideas.

Now that he's up again, I'll see if I can get him to eat some more.

Update: No interest in canned food or feline greenies, the latter being a new treat that schulman turned me on to that, last week, would cause Erik to devour not only the greenie but the entire bowl of dry food in which I had placed the greenie. Cat treats as appetite stimulants seem a good thing for underweight cats. (But I was only giving him one or two a day, so I don't think that's the source of the problem.)

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[gardenfey.livejournal.com]

I hope he's doing better.

I'm still amused that we both have cats named Erik/Eric. (Now joined with the names Rosy and Domino.)