Loss of appetite: its a very probable symptom of disease, but it also depends on how well you know the animal. Most of them are always eager to eat or even eat reluctantly.
If you know the feeding pattern of your cat, you will know how to detect the chances that indicate that something isn't well. The same as in people, the loss of appetite can be due to many things. A cat that has the freedom to go outside to streets may have caught a prey or been fed at another house.
If he has fought with another cat, the stress might also inhibit him from eating.
Inside the house, there are many stress factors as in the arrival of another animal; changes of routine or the changing of the place of furniture can make the cat loose its appetite for several days. Also, it is not rare that a cat that has been being fed with a determined canned food product during a long period of time one day decides to stop feeding on it.
One way to verify if there is a health problem is to offer the cat a really tasty food, as are sardines on oil; but be careful not to enter into a psychological battle with him.
If you observe that he doesn't eat because he doesn't want to, and not because he is ill, next time give him normal food. Or on the contrary, the cat may decide to only eat tasty food that isn't exactly a balanced died.
Other symptoms: usually, the loss of appetite due to a disease comes accompany by other symptoms, such as apathy, bad humor, tendency to hide at unusual places inside the house or, in the case of cats that go outside, the negative to do so. Again, it's a question of knowing the animal.
However, it's dangerous for cats to be too many days without eating, because it could affect its metabolism; if your cat has more than 24 hours without eating, consult with the veterinary. As with many animals, and also people, the instinctive act of a cat when not feeling well they cuddle in a corner to sleep to see if it ends, and it often happens.
The appearance of the third eyelid on its eyes usually indicates that there is a health probable. This appears when the cat is sleeping and disappears when he is widely awake. The state of the coat is another indicator.
If the hair is unusually "open" or erect and separated, it can be a sign that the cat is trying to regulate its body temperature.
Other symptoms are the difficulty they have for urinating or to defecate, to drivel, make strange sounds or to drink too much water, as not cleansing itself after feeding.
Vomits: occasional vomits, as annoying as they are, without other symptoms are not preoccupying. Cats vomit with easiness, and for several reasons doing lots of noises.
It's the way they have to eliminate the balls of hair inside its stomach. It also may be that they have eaten some prey that they don't like or, simply, that they have eaten too much and too fast.
The food goes to the stomach without being chewed and the digestive system must shred them, process that most of the mammals, including humans, starts at the mouth. This way, the system may be overloaded; reason why cats tend to do pauses when they feed.
Anyway, if your cat vomits too frequently, it may be something serious. Equally, isolated cases of diarrhea or sneezes aren't alarming safe when they are repeated constantly.
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