my cat hides majority of the day to sleep and doesnt eat much at a time. i want to go to bed but im worried that shes so hungry and starving :( i gave her food earlier just in case, she ate a bit, then wanted to go back to her room to sleep. i cant leave the bowl in there because it will make ants show up. im scared shes starving. im so tired. but it doesnt take much to get up
Im not a pet expert or anything but maybe she just doesn’t need to eat much? one of my cats is just like this! She would rather lay in the sun and sleep all day. She is perfectly healthy. And i’m sure your kitty is perfectly healthy too!
@xoxorm thanks so much!!! sorry for the late response, this did help me feel okay to sleep after i read it
Hello I’m late but I have way too much cat knowledge for my own good so I’ve come to share. Cats eat a lot less than most people think they do like A LOT LESS, that’s why so many cats are overweight. A healthy cat eats 20 to 25 calories per pound of body weight and the average adult cat is around 10lbs so they only need 200 to 250 calories a day. Depending on the dry food that’s only 1/3 to 1/2 cup of food a day, if you do wet food usually 2 or 3 cans a day depending on the size since wet food has less calories than kibble. I rehab a lot of cats and if I’m worried about their weight since I don’t have any scale I always make sure when I pet them that I can easily feel their spine, not every vertebrae obviously but just enough that you can kind of follow the line of their spine easily if that makes any sense. If you have a people scale you can also weight yourself then weight yourself holding the cat and the difference is how much the cat weighs. Cats are also nocturnal so they will be asleep for the majority of the day. The only thing that is a red flag is if she is hiding hiding not just slipped off somewhere for a nap and you can’t find her but legit hiding. I know I was late but I hope this is still helpful for you and that your floof is doing well!
@#Lexiriri thanks so much for the advice! i do have a scale and she weighs 7lbs which only exacerbates my worries because we’re trying to get her to gain a bit more weight, given she’s almost 5 years old. i just wanna make sure she eats. she eats some and then just likes to sleep, and it worried me.
@viee She still pretty young for a cat most cats now live to 15 years or more. Something I have noticed with my rehab kitties that are in rougher shape or are a lot older is that sometimes giving them their food in larger meals is sometimes overwhelming in someway, so I will give them much smaller meals throughout the day and I also will add warm water or a warm broth sometimes for them and that helps as well especially if they have any pain in their mouth, so that could be something for you to try. If this is a new eating behavior for her and you haven’t I highly recommend you try to get a look in her mouth and see if you notice anything that looks concerning or like it could be a broken tooth. Either way if this keeps up it’s probably best to get her checked out by a vet if you’re able to but I know how stupidly expensive it is
Idk whats going on…my mental state hasnt been great these past two weeks. My eating is being affected in a neg way due to transition between therapists, school, and ignoring my sexuality….Ive been taking several different kinds of quizzes over the past week regarding mental health and ED and i realized that if i dont eat enough to feel full i’ll end up sick or worse dead. It doesn’t help that i also just started my period. And i just woke up in the middle of the night with food, hydration, and possibly not waking up in mind. And tried going back to sleep but then i realized that I might actually have a problem on my hands and that jolted me awake. Now im scared of sleeping and not making it through the night….i could easily get up and make myself an oatmeal even though im not hungry atm, but dont wanna wake family that are sleeping in the living room. Im scared of dropping more weight than I already have been and having my nutritionist intervene…. Im realizing that im fucking myself up from not eating well and being too picky and i wanna slap a bandaid on it and just eat everything to hopefully gain some weight before my next nutrition appt. I’m just scared of things getting worse….is this part of OCD or is it just me just plain out ignoring my body cos in feeling like it??? Idk what to believe about myself anymore….
bruh I was sleeping & I suddenly am woken up by one of my cats. idk what was happening but she was making a weird howling noise. her tail was puffed up and she was either looking out the window or looking at my other cat. I told her to be quiet bc idk why she was making such a weird noise. thing is, I never heard her do that. then when I threw something on the floor (my bed is a loft), they both kinda flinched. I didn’t hurt them but just needed my girl to relax. they were both looking at each other & my girl was growling/howling at my other cat. idk why. like ik sometimes they fight but she was being weird. anyway, I had to use the bathroom so I did. the door to my room was open which meant they could get out if they wanted. they didn’t. they were by the window. very odd. came back up the bed & now my mind is frightening me. thoughts are racing, ranging from: there’s something/someone at the window, likely some shadow figure to my cats secretly being possessed by some mysterious entity. my mind goes wild & when I’m suddenly woken up, I’m still in that dream state. idk how to put it but my mind starts to believe things and I feel very vulnerable. literally it’s night and everyone else in my household is asleep. these moments felt like nightmare fuel & any sudden noise triggered me. like I felt maybe my cats were going to stand on their legs and chant some shit idk. I wanna go back to sleep soon. I need my paranoid ass to calm down. at some point I started to get kinda freaked out just looking at my cats. ruhrjfjdsnnfnf I hate waking up suddenly at night T_T
I've been hyperfixated on worrying about abuse and harm to my cats, and as a result i spiraled into some bad compulsions, and I know I'm a bad person for that. I feel horrible. Some time ago my male cat went to sniff my other female's cat bum and i know it's normal but i instantly reacted and bumped by hand to his face and I believe I accidentally used a bit too force. I got scared that I did it too hard. And I felt the urge to replicate the same move to check that it didnt hurt him and i shouldn't have done it I should have ignored the call of uncertainty, and I bumped my dorsal part of the hand on his face repeatedly to check any sign, i was replicating similar "force" to make sure I didn't hurt him going one slight step above of a gentle tap. It was like a slight stiffer tap, but not hard, but still stiff... Like I would feel the compulsive urge to try to bump my hand slightly harder to his face and that would make me feel horrible and wanting me to check it again... My cat wasn't hurt, but I think he had a confused face, my brain is telling me that he ran away and that he had a hurt face, the first thing i dont think so and the latter I believe it. I felt so guilty I thought I was an abuser. And I checked the same thing on my other female cat but she was just annoyed, she didnt feel hurt. This has been on my mind for a long time and I've been obsessing abt. Just now I compulsively tested "abuse" on my cat. i started tapping on her head lightly with my fingers. it didnt hurt her, she didnt react at all, but the first time she lowered her ears but not in a hurt way more like she was a bit annoyed by my antics, or i think it's just the nervous area because cats generally lower their ears when someone touches their head. I started tapping from her back like people do to their cats because the cats enjoy it and i used the same "energy" and slowly went to her head to see if it hurt her. and a medium tap (not hard) that didnt hurt her triggered me a lot, felt like i had done already something that was too hard. and i spiraled and kept doing the same thing to see if it hurt her. like if i do it to myself it doesnt hurt at all. and my cat didnt react at all she didnt move an inch and didnt even meow. she didnt care. i increased the power a slightly to hear more the sound of the tap and I got increasingly worried. but i kept tapping her too much. i couldn't stop. i had to check continuously that the tap before didnt sound as harsh like it did. like she didnt flinch or hiss or move at all. her ears lowered a bit probably because it was unpleasant. i would try to go above one slight step above gently tapping to see what would happened because i couldn't stand uncertainty and i couldn't believe that it could hurt her. it was never hard, but the medium taps felt abuse. when my cat headbutts she uses more strenght than i used to tap her head... to describe the tap it would be like similar to when your friend taps your shoulder to say "good job" or to encourage you. probably a bit less then that...
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