So my cat that I thought would have to be put to sleep 2 weeks ago, she's actually back at home. The vet has no idea what happened to her, it was like an infection took over her body and brain - she was blind from high blood pressure and very unsteady on her feet and had to spend a week at the vet hospital. She is able to see again, and they sent her home on Thursday - well, now she won't eat. I have to give her 2 large syringes of antibiotics twice a day, and it's nasty pink stuff that she gags on. I actually went and bought a few cans of the soft food she was perfectly willing to eat at the vet's, but she just looks away from it here at home. Yesterday I started mixing the antibiotics in with the wet food, and she seems to tolerate that pretty well, but she's not getting nearly enough food in her currently (pretty much ate nothing from Thursday to yesterday until I started giving her the food via syringe yesterday).
I managed to get 5 of the syringes of mixture into her this morning with no bad reactions - Friday night when I gave her her meds, it completely stressed her out, to the point of her stumbling and falling over with her mouth wide open panting, glassy-eyed (vet said that was severe stress and to not give her the meds if she always reacts that way - which I physically can't - I cried when she did that). Does anybody have any other ideas as to types of food I can try to tempt her with? I tried leaving a couple small pieces of tuna - no go. I've left a small portion of this wet food - it's a dried-out lump by morning. I figure I just need to jump-start her appetite to get her interested in eating on her own again, but it's hard! I'll keep doing the meds/food mixture by syringe until her follow-up in 2 weeks, but it sure would be nice if she would take an interest in food sooner than that. The syringe is very small, so it takes a lot of filling it to get even just a couple of tablespoons of food into her.