Poorly black cat is still with us

Jet is hanging on and looking much happier today.  She’s still weak and feather-light but is eating and really enjoying her food.  We’re giving her special sensitive feline pate and she licks the plate clean. She’s also having a few spoonfuls of goat’s milk yoghurt on a saucer alongside her food and she slurps it all up.  Jet is a cat with a lovely temperament, she purrs all the time she’s picked up and loves a cuddle.

Jet hasn’t been grooming herself and is raggedy looking even though she’s a smooth haired cat.  Her coat is dull and ‘staring’ which means it sticks up and isn’t glossy.  Although her face looks plump it is only fur and the rest of her is bones almost sticking out of the skin.  How old is she?   In her teens we think but not so old that she should be in this bad sat te.  She’s become very run down.

We’re hoping that’s all it is and she’ll gradually pick up and put weight on.  When she’s stronger she’ll be able to have her teeth cleaned and the bad ones extracted.  It’s puzzling why so many cats need dental work these days and yet they eat so many biscuits.  But then, I suppose if we ate loads of biscuits we’d need to see the dentist too.