Pets can go many days without "needing" to eat anything. Don't worry yourself too much as long as she's in good spirits and active.

Hope she gets better soon.
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This.

Also make sure she keeps drinking water. Don't want kidney problems...
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Have you tried any tuna? Also, Science Diet makes a high-calorie food that supposedly no cat can resist, but you'll need a prescription for it. Worth it, in my opinion.

Not true about cats. Cats can't go very long without food - they're not like dogs. Get worried if it's more than a couple of days. Their organs will begin to be damaged, starting with the liver. This happened to my Mille a couple years ago.

The trick is making sure you know they're not eating. Often, they'll eat when you can't see them. Try some wet food, canned tuna, etc. If that doesn't work, try to get that Science Diet - Prescription Diet a/d Canine/Feline Critical Care. The stuff is specifically aimed at cats that don't want to eat (among other things).
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Not true about cats. True about dogs, not true about cats. It's not going to die from not eating in two days, but it will suffer permanent organ damage. Do not kid around with a cat that's not eating.
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My dad's cat eats wet food, so I took hers, put my finger in it and Fat Cat licked it off my finger. I put the can down in front of her, but she sniffed and then turned her head.

I'll try getting some tuna today. If nothing helps by tomorrow, then I'm calling the vet in the morning. She basically hasn't eaten since Sunday night.
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If she'll eat off your finger, keep doing that.

I really don't want to scare you, but I did two weeks of this with Mille and eventually had to have her put down. We came to a point where we were giving her subcutaneous fluid injections to keep her fluids up, a pill to stimulate appetite (which she ended up being allergic to) and force feeding her. But we couldn't get enough in her to help. Vet gave us the option of putting in a feeding tube, but by then she already had a distended liver and her kidneys were shutting down. Doc said that only gave her a 10-15 percent chance of survival, even with the feeding tube. We decided to end her obvious pain and put her at ease.

The only thing we could get Mille to touch by herself was tuna, but she'd only eat a bite or two of that if it was a good day.
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I'm sure Fat Cat will be fine. I'm just anxious to get her done with her pain med to see if it helps.
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Took Fat Cat back to the vet today. She still hasn't been eating. Super lethargic. They're doing blood work this time, along with one other test, that's going to be another $132. I'm not sure if I can spend any more if they find something wrong.
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Putting her down in less than an hour. :-)

Kidney failure. It's will cost out the wazoo just to see if there's a chance she might have some active left. I just can't do it.
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Sorry to hear this. Having to put a pet down sucks like nothing else. :-)
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bad deal.
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Sorry to hear, luv. That really sucks.
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That sucks Leann. I'm very sad to hear this.
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I'm sorry you have to put her down. It's always a hard thing to do.
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