"KellyH" wrote in message
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"David via CatKB.com" wrote in message
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Hi,

Well, my last cat is now under observation at the adoption agency's
vetrinarian...He was very loveable and mushy - just purred and sat on my
lap, totally adorable.

Except he didn't eat. Best I could figure out was that his former owner
died, so he/she was elderly - kept him company and fed him goodies all
day
(his papers said "grossly obese" from animal rescue).

I got a call from the vet today - the doctor left a message that it was
most likely liver disease. The representative from the adoption agency
said
"Of course it was liver disease, that's what happens when cats don't
eat....

..It's sort of a chicken and egg thing - is the cat not eating because
of
liver disease, or does he have liver disease because he's not eating.

snip

So, are you giving up on this cat?
He got liver disease because he didn't eat. I think I posted that when
you
first asked about him not eating, and suggested that you get him to eat
something.
He can recover from the fatty liver disease. The vet will probably put in
a
feeding tube if he doesn't start eating on his own. He will need to be
fed
through that until he starts eating again. We had a cat at the shelter
that
went into fatty liver disease because she stopped eating. She made a full
recovery.
Please don't give up on him.

--

I suspected from his past posts that for David cats are kind of like
cuddly "things." He was out looking for another cat just a day or
two after his latest died. I didn't really get that he had a real
emotional connection to that cat, though he clearly took it to
the vet and tried to care for it. I believe Phil thought it was euthanized
needlessly--or rather because David did not want to spend the money.
This is why I have not bothered with his posts since the cat died.
(I'm not saying David is a bad guy--hell some men love their
girlfriends less than he probably loves his cats--but there's
just something off here that I can't relate to.)