Poorly old cat

This poorly cat was brought in yesterday, she’d been living as a stray and was too weak to keep going any longer.  She’s only a little cat, very thin and frail and hungry, wolfing her food down in big gulps.  We can’t give her too much at once as she is emaciated so  it’s  little and often. We’ve called her Jet (completely black) and she looks like an old stager, scraggy, unkempt and much too light.  It all might change if she picks up though.  Nothing ages a cat so much as starvation.

Jet’s teeth look dodgy, although not enough to stop her eating and a trip to the vets is next.  Sometimes they can’t do anything about the mouth problems straight away as the cat is too weak to stand the anaesthetic.   Jet looks almost ready to give up but we’re hoping for the best.  She’s warm and comfy and has a full tummy at least.