He has had bloodwork done and now on home infusion to keep organs going. It's now been 4 days without food and water. He seems miserable. Is there truly a chance for him to recover. I'm very scared and sad.

I have a cat that was diagnosed with IBD 5 months ago. She is 15 years old and has been on prednisolone pretty much 90% of time in past 5 months. She was having dark tarry stool so we had her go back to vet to get checked out for what we thought upper gi bleed due to ibd. we had blood work done and urinalysis. Her bloodwork numbers were fine except her BUN was elevate to 75. We are now giving fluids three times a day, but she acts perfectly normal before fluids like nothing is wrong, still plays, social and is the same Kindof eater as before. I understand a cats kidneys begin to shut down but is giving fluids necessary this early before creatinine and phosphate rise.

My 10 year old cat was attacked by two dogs yesterday. I heard barking outside and found two dogs on top of her. I ran downstairs and they ran off, but she was not in good shape. She tried to run into the house by her lower legs were not functioning and she flopped down. She was breathing very heavily with her tongue hanging out of her mouth. I took her to a local animal hospital and they tried to stabilize her with fluid, oxygen, warmth and methods to raise her blood pressure which was low, pain meds. They ran x-rays to find out if she had a broken leg, they tried to determine if there was internal bleeding, etc. That all came back negative from what they could tell. She spent the night there but nothing really changed. No improvement on her hind legs - she would respond if they were touched but she could not walk on them. Also continue problems with keeping blood pressure and breathing normal. They thought it could require a neurologist and suggested I wait one more day and if she was not better they could refer me to an ER that had Neurologists on site. Rather than wait a day I moved her to such an Animal ER this afternoon (23 hours after the attack). They did some of the same stabilization techniques there but also checked the bruises on her chest to see if any were bites more than skin deep, but did not see anything. They said she was two weak for a full neurological exam but a neurologist did examin her and thought the hind leg problems could be a result of pain and swelling that might resolve over time. There were at least two xrays taken at the first hospital as well as other tests and apparently she was showing some normal age-related issues - such as a possible heart murmur. Important to note that she showed no symptoms of any issues and was a normal acting cat until this happened. Anyway the Vet at this second hospital was almost optimistic and seemed to think that after one or two days she might get better. Sadly a few hours later he called to say they ran kidney tests and the numbers of two important measurements were much higher than they were yesterday (first hospital). He feared that she might have experienced kidney damage as a result of the dog attack and if that is the case it does not look good for her. He said either that or the first hospital did not give her enough fluids. He said it was tricky because with the heart murmur you had to be careful about too many fluids that could bring on heart failure. I guess there is no choice but to go ahead with the fluids to see if they can save her for now, but he did say he was worried about her and he sounded grimmer than he did when we met. It appears that the dogs may have nipped at her and probably applied pressure to her body and I am certain the terrified her. What next? What to try? I don't want to give up on her as long as there is hope. How much hope is there? She did not deserve this!

My cat is 22 yrs. old and is an indoor cat. She was diagnosed with kidney failure almost 2 yrs. ago. It is becoming more evident that she is in the advanced stage of kidney failure. The last couple of months she's been going downhill pretty fast. She has decreased water in take (a week ago she went from 16 oz a day to almost nothing now), she's vomiting some white foam and sometimes green bile for the last 3 days , maybe twice a day, now some diarhea. She stays confined to my bedroom for the last year. She acts like she has a cold by sneezing, which is getting worse. She has lost interest in everything. She stays in the bed or on her chair and her food and water is on the bed, cat box is 5 feet away from the bed, but still responds to affection and purrs alot. I know the end is near and I don't want her to suffer or be in pain. Going to the vets has always been very tramatic for her and I always hoped she would pass in her sleep. She's had a wonderful and pampered life for 22 years. I don't want her to suffer. What are your thoughts?

My cat,Tito, is almost 2 years old and diagnosed with acute renal failure. I took him to the vet a week ago and his creatinine was over the charts. They had out him on an IV for a few days and his levels did go down to a 2.8. They let me take him home with just kidney care diet food and I will go back in a month to check the levels again. But ever since I got home he is not eating anything and continues to hide under my bed or in the bath tub. It's starting to scare me that hes not going to make it. Any suggestions on getting him to eat ? Or any idea what to do in this situation? I have given him all types of canned cat food and even tried boiled chicken.