Posted by allisonm on January 30, 2006, at 21:25:17
In reply to Re: addendum Shar Alli, posted by Kath on January 30, 2006, at 20:55:25
Yes I know what you mean with FIP. Jasper decided to live with me in mid-June. He just came up on my side porch one night...very charming. I could have sworn that he wasn't a cat. He seemed more intuitive, empathetic, knowing. He was very thin and bony, but he ate a lot and started gaining weight. Then he slowed down in his eating. Also, he was a little unsteady on his feet. By November I had to force-feed him too with special food. Then with high-calorie goop. He hated it and cried every time I picked him up to feed him because he knew what I was going to do. We did all sorts of tests and while no test can definitively diagnose FIP, everything seemed to point to it. Finally by mid-December he was missing the litter box. I could tolerate that, but then he started having trouble walking and moving around. I finally had to put him to sleep. I hate FIP. It's a horrible disease.
Don't feel guilty. You did as much as you could
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