So sorry, they mean so much to us .
Best wishes
Ian
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Sending good vibes for an improvement over the weekend. 
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Edda hasn’t eaten anything in two days, just drinks water.
But she still has some strength and is constantly purring and seems happy to starve herself into a spiralling doom-loop of death.
I phoned the vet to report, and was prescribed an appetiser drug. So a 10 minute drive to collect it and found they didn’t have the transdermal gel type in stock but did have the tablet form and was given a supply of 7 tablets (one to be taken daily ).
The first tablet was crushed between two spoons and dissolved in water.
One force-of-habit lick and she backed away wide eyed, and salivating bubbles.
The second tablet was given the traditional poke down the gob hole technique which produced a badly scratched hand badly punctured in two places with blood and excruciating pain.
Worse pain injury i’m ever experienced from a cat.
The tablet got spat out.
The third tablet seemed to go down with the aid of a towel wrap straight-jacket to contain those claws. Seemed to work but found this tablet 5 minutes later on the kitchen floor.
The fourth tablet seemed to have gone down too, but found this mushed on the patio 5 minute later.
The fifth tablet landed on the back of tongue area which is a bulls-eye hit but risky and got bit hard on the deed finger which was very painful and blood did flow again.
Managed to stay with her after for at least 10 minutes and no sign of a rejected 5th tablet, can only think this one is in the cat! 
Vet said this medication could take 24 hr to start working…
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That is love.
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Have you tried crushing it in lick licks? We had a similar problem and it worked well.
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Our vet gave us this week these treats in which you can hide the tablet. They are from Royal Canin. Works!
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Just returned from a weekly Tesco shop, and purchased a packet of Felix soup for cats.
She finds the soup interesting, and first attempt scored a few licks of the soup, before then she walks away. At least this is a sign [ maybe ] of her appetite gradually returning. Hopefully the appetiser drug is working and just needs a bit more time…
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So sorry. My missus hand fed our Tortie Siamese with a syringe of special food (from the vets) every few hours.
It may be worth a try if your vet agrees.
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I’m crossing my fingers tightly that it works.
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Spoon feed some ‘Sheba Chicken Soup’ right up close to Edda’s mouth, and she has taken the bait, but with licks and nibbles that are brief, and she restlessly walks away with the foot dish following her around, more spoon feeding and more licks, it took a while but she managed to consume 30g of the 40g sachet.
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Progress👍🏼 Well done @Debs
Fingers crossed here that she continues to move forward…
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Some years ago we had to give one of our Maine Coons a special drug which was licenced for horses but not cats and therefore the tablets were much too high dose for a cat. This was to deal with an infection of a hard to get rid of parasite. So the vet had capsules made for us which had the right number of mg of the drug for a daily dose for her specifically. They were very expensive. And we had to give it for 14 days. The first attempt was just as described above and further more the drug had lots of warnings about the human not getting the drug onto their hands.
With some googling I devised a technique which worked wonderfully. I squatted on my heels on the floor, making a sort of cave with my legs. Cat went in bottom first with all four feet on the ground. I clamped her gently with my knees so she couldn’t move anywhere much. Then with my left hand I gently lifted her head upward and backwards. Inevitably a cat can’t keep their jaw shut, especially if you use your finger and thumb to encourage the jaw to drop. Then with the right hand, I used a pill popper tool to push the pill just over the back of her tongue before releasing it, then removed both hands and let the cat go out forwards.
This worked quite well with the second pill and very well afterwards for the rest of the course. I commend the approach!
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Positive news, Debs! Hope it continues. In the meantime, you may well be spending a lot of time following her around with the food bowl** - been there, done that.
** Thus fulfilling your sacred duty as “kitty servant”. 
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As you can see, a busy day in the conservatory, at a pleasantly warm 29 degC.
Pixie (closest to camera) and Jasmine.
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Hi Debs, its just good to see her near her food bowl, they can’t tell you how they feel, fingers crossed she continues to eat.
Gary
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Well we came back from our week in Cornwall and were relieved to discover that Billy and his sister had had a quiet week at the cattery, with no cone or dressing necessary as he just ignored the wound on his leg. It is going to take a few weeks to heal completely, but if he continues to leave it alone then that should be that. Our vet thought it better to just leave it now rather than remove the stitches which don’t seem to be worrying him and which should anyway dissolve eventually.
Although the drama just before we went off on holiday was very unwelcome, it was fortuitous that it was all arranged for him to be incarcerated for the week and we had no realistic alternative except to leave it to the cattery staff. If we had been at home then we would have been trying to juggle keeping him in with trying to keep a bandage on his leg. All of us would have been majorly stressed!
And now he’s back to normal on my wife!/ lap, more or less back to normal anyway.
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I hope everything works out Debs. A few years ago, I helped my mother with her cat. We had to put drops of liquid into her mouth for 4 days straight; to get rid of intestinal worms.
The trick I used was to grab her firmly by the back of the neck, just like a mother cat does. This always seems to calm a cat down and allows you to feed a pill or drops.
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