If she's not medicated for hyperthyroidism or the kidney disease, it could be that putting her off her food. (Nebu was/is hypertensive, too, but I don't think that was the problem.) If she *is* medicated, same thing.
I don't know how you feel about it, but he'd eat raw ground turkey even when he was completely off almost everything else. Also boiled egg yolk. We got organic and stuff. I know people do this whole raw food thing, with added tyrosine in measured doses. If you can tolerate the complication, you might try that.
Another thing is, he's not picking up the squish food as well as he used to, and it helps if we a) put it on a flatter dish and make sure it's somewhat liquidy (a smidge of warm water, and mashed fine), so he can lick it and it doesn't roll away from him or get in corners he can't reach, or b) occasionally give it to him out of our hands. :-p I don't much care for the sensation of kittylicking between my fingers, but eh. He's gained a pound. Hmmm. Lessee. If he's not eating his prescription squish, sometimes he can be tempted by the tiniest, tiniest smidge of highly aromatic cheese (like queso cotija or parmesan) -- he throws up if he has dairy, but a whiff of it doesn't seem to hurt. There's also cat milk, with reduced lactose.
Whatever you can get down her, yeah. Too much salt could throw her electrolytes out of whack, though. Maybe get a blood test for potassium levels and and? Experiment with food textures?
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If she's not medicated for hyperthyroidism or the kidney disease, it could be that putting her off her food. (Nebu was/is hypertensive, too, but I don't think that was the problem.) If she *is* medicated, same thing.
I don't know how you feel about it, but he'd eat raw ground turkey even when he was completely off almost everything else. Also boiled egg yolk. We got organic and stuff. I know people do this whole raw food thing, with added tyrosine in measured doses. If you can tolerate the complication, you might try that.
Another thing is, he's not picking up the squish food as well as he used to, and it helps if we a) put it on a flatter dish and make sure it's somewhat liquidy (a smidge of warm water, and mashed fine), so he can lick it and it doesn't roll away from him or get in corners he can't reach, or b) occasionally give it to him out of our hands. :-p I don't much care for the sensation of kittylicking between my fingers, but eh. He's gained a pound. Hmmm. Lessee. If he's not eating his prescription squish, sometimes he can be tempted by the tiniest, tiniest smidge of highly aromatic cheese (like queso cotija or parmesan) -- he throws up if he has dairy, but a whiff of it doesn't seem to hurt. There's also cat milk, with reduced lactose.
Whatever you can get down her, yeah. Too much salt could throw her electrolytes out of whack, though. Maybe get a blood test for potassium levels and and? Experiment with food textures?