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Old 15-11-2008, 03:17 PM
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Failure to absorb nutrition

My 6 year old cat is constantly hungry, is withdrawn, is drinking loads, his bowels are loose, and he is very thin.
He eats like a horse, I have now given in and am feeding him dried foods (banned as he got a stone the size of a lemon pip in his bladder and the other cat crystals) as well as cooked minced turkey, and the type tinned cat food that requires a second mortgage - even in his present state he won't eat bog standard.
He acts like an elderly cat with kidney disease, but his kidney function is fine, he doesn't have diabetes or thyroid problems. The vet think that he is not absorbing any nourishment from food - in it goes out it comes.
Anyone had any experience of this, is it treatable? The current set of tests have gone to the States, so the results will take sometime.
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