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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / September 2004Cat licking patio
My cat (14) has started licking the patio - anyone know why he does this? Salt content? It seems very strange. Also, he just licks at his food and doesn't seem as interested as he used to be - have tried several types of food now. Do they do patio flavoured food???!!! ;o) Oo. Time for a blood work up. This can indicate an ailment. Anytime a cat stops eating you should get them checked. I have heard of anemic cats licking cement. > My cat (14) has started licking the patio - anyone know why he does this? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Do they do patio flavoured food???!!! ;o) I have to agree with you Karen! 5 years ago my (now previous) cat took up patio stone licking and as well showed disinterest in food. The results of her checkup and full blood panel showed that, not only was she anemic, she was hyperthyroid as well. > Oo. Time for a blood work up. This can indicate an ailment. Anytime a cat > stops eating you should get them checked. I have heard of anemic cats [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > > Do they do patio flavoured food???!!! ;o) My himalayan with Chronic Renal Failure starting licking stone walls (and eating kitty litter) when she became anemic. Yes, time for a checkup... > My cat (14) has started licking the patio - anyone know why he does this? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Do they do patio flavoured food???!!! ;o) Thanks for all your advice - hubby had asked vet a few days ago about licking patio and he just said it was to do with salt content and sometimes they eat gravel too but it's ok... However, when my cat stopped eating aswell we took him to the vet for blood tests. Funninly enough everyone thinks my cat is a Himalayan (He's just a farm cat but we reckon his long-haired tabby mother either mated with a siamese or himalayan - sorry I digress!) and the blood tests revealed that he is anemic - have to take him back today for injections - antibiotics and steroids. Apparently the reading was supposed to be 5 but his was 21! Thanks for all the advice everyone - give your pussies a BIG HUG! > My himalayan with Chronic Renal Failure starting licking stone walls (and > eating kitty litter) when she became anemic. Yes, time for a checkup... [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > > Do they do patio flavoured food???!!! ;o) > Thanks for all your advice - hubby had asked vet a few days ago > about licking patio and he just said it was to do with salt content [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thanks for all the advice everyone - give your pussies a BIG HUG! Whoa. Maybe your vet will remember now if someone asks again. I've heard it time and again on these boards the last couple of years that peoples cats began to lick cement or eat gravel when anemic. I think it's common. Hope kitty gets better. > > Thanks for all your advice - hubby had asked vet a few days ago > > about licking patio and he just said it was to do with salt content [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > began to lick cement or eat gravel when anemic. I think it's common. Hope > kitty gets better. He died today. :( SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB SOB > He died today. :( > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > SOB > SOB I am SOOOOO sorry :( Cats are VERY good at hiding illness and he was a senior citizen kitty. It sounds like he lived very well up until the end. Sometimes I think it is better than a lingering illness, many of which we see here, but it is never easy. I'm so very sorry :( Karen > > He died today. :( > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I am SOOOOO sorry :( Cats are VERY good at hiding illness and he was a senior citizen kitty. It sounds like he lived very well up until the end. I just wanted to add that I hope Mermaid will share photos and stories of him with us. When my cat died many people in RL made me feel odd because I was grieving "as though I had lost a member of my family." I HAD lost a member of my family. But many people here understand. > > > He died today. :( > > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > grieving "as though I had lost a member of my family." I HAD lost a member > of my family. But many people here understand. Thank you for that - I do feel like I've lost a member of my family. It's my 8th wedding anniversary on Tuesday and there have always been just the three of us. :O) Have to remember the special times we all had together. He had the most beautiful blue eyes. It's 1:35am here so I guess I should at least try to sleep. Thank you so much for making me feel 'normal' about grieving for my 'baby'... Thank you all for understanding. Goodnight & God bless Mermaid >>>> He died today. :( >>>> [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > Goodnight & God bless > Mermaid Not only do we understand he was a member of the family but there are studies that prove it is perfectly normal. I hope you can sleep and salvage some of your anniversary. Remember, your boy doesn't want you to feel bad. He is healthy again. > > I just wanted to add that I hope Mermaid will share > > photos and stories of him with us. When my cat died many people in RL made me feel odd because I was > > grieving "as though I had lost a member of my family." I HAD lost a member of my family. But many people here understand. > Thank you for that - I do feel like I've lost a member of my family. Because you have. He was a member of your family, just not a human member. Many times the animal members are more comforting and loving than the human members. >It's my 8th wedding anniversary on Tuesday and there >have always been just the three of us. :O) Have to remember the special times we all had together. Yeah, that's the way. But you will be heartsore for a long time. It has been three years since my Gnarly died at 20 and I still tear up when I look at her pictures. And she wasn't really very nice. She was just MINE for 20 years and I was hers. I can still feel her soft fur and smell her nice "clean and warm" smell when I snuggled with her---to me just as nice as that of a baby, but no milky-baby powder smell! > He had the most beautiful blue eyes. It's 1:35am here so I guess I should at least try to sleep. Thank you so much for making me feel 'normal' about grieving for my 'baby'... You are better than normal! The norm is that people don't usually love pets quite as much or as deeply--as you do. Something for you to be proud of. You have a big heart. Your boy knew that and knew you did your best to take care of him. Be good to yourself and tell us all about him to help your heart heal. (When you create love it never truly dies. I really think that. The way you felt about him and he about you made a piece of the world a better place and goes on.) "The Mermaid" <mermaid@bottomofthesea.com> wrote in message > > He died today. :( OMG! I'm so very sorry. This is just terrible. << He died today. :( >> Oh, no, I'm so sorry. Poor baby. Candace (take the litter out before replying by e-mail) See my cats: http://photos.yahoo.com/maccandace "One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human." (Loren Eisely) > << He died today. :( >> > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > "One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other > than human." (Loren Eisely) Thank you Candace... It's now 3:42 and I still can't sleep so have got up again to surf as otherwise I am just lying in my bed thinking "If only I had done such and such, etc, etc" I've had him since he was only about 6/8 weeks old. Sorry to keep going on about him but he was a special boy. Vet didn't think he had much chance when I acquired him from a farm; worms, fleas - you name it he had it but here we are 14 years later... :O) Mermaid >> << He died today. :( >> >> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Mermaid You can't worry about the ifs. 14 is a ripe age. Some live longer, some don't get very long with us at all. He did not suffer and that is very good. Cats are extremely good at hiding illness. Do not blame yourself. >He died today. :( I'm so very, very sorry to read this. I hope that in time the good memories you had with your boy will put your soul at ease. |
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