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Refuses to Eat / Hairloss

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GM - 09 Oct 2005 00:45 GMT
Hello All,

    I'm getting a bit desperate at the moment.  My female cat is 7 years old
and suddenly refused to eat her food one day.  Furthermore, this food refusal
continued with hairloss on the back area closer to the butt.  She leaves
clumps of hair around the house.  She isn't complaining about anything, but
seems just drink water and have hairloss.  It took a little soft food.  I
went and bought several types of food that it also just took a few bites and
refused.  It refuses to eat its favorite foods like crushed tomamotes and
cantalope.  Seems to still enjoy cat nip a little  Seems to be sleeping most
of the day.  I ordered Natural balance cat food from petco because I read
that it may be missing omega 3 fatty acid or whatever.  Whats wrong?  

thanks!
Beth - 09 Oct 2005 01:00 GMT
take her to your vet
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5cats - 09 Oct 2005 02:36 GMT
> suddenly refused to eat her food one day

Loss of appetite could be a symptom of any one of a number of different
problems. Get the cat to a vet ASAP.
saeri - 09 Oct 2005 08:22 GMT
If you are feeding or have fed your cat commercial cat food, sometimes it
doesn't have enough nutrition to it , especially if a cat isn't feeling well.
Try giving your cat brewer's yeast tablets- she may eat them out of your hand,
cats like them that much( or grease them with a little butter and pop them in
her mouth if  she won't take them and you're adept at giving  pills) ,  as
well as Vitamin E(natural form not synthetic) about 25 IU's a day. See if
your cat will lap up a tablespoon or so of flaxseed oil too.    If,  after a
couple of days, the lack of appetite still persists, see if your vet will
give you something called Cyproheptadine, it stimulates flagging appetites.
 
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