Had all the kitties to the vet.
Thorncat flunked her tests. She has a "largish mass in the vaginal area". Her kidney function was poor, and after a couple of weeks of a new diet, an antibiotic, and a couple hundred ml of subQ fluids it was actually worse.
We are continuing the diet, she has had more fluids, If she is not better day after tomorrow, we will have to have her in for fluids once or twice a week for a while to try and get some improvement (free since we already bought the 1000ml bag). Also if there is no improvement this time, they are going to biopsy the mass to see what it is. A cancer could be responsible for the kidney problems, or they could have come about just because she is a 10 year old cat who has eaten major company commercial cat food her whole life. If her kidney function has improved enough, they will operate to take the mass out. If it hasn't improved they dare not operate for fear that she will be unable to metabolize the anesthetic.
OK, her new prescription diet is Science Diet KD. She eats the kibble just fine, but neither she nor any other cat in the house recognized the canned food as food. _None_ of the 4 would touch it. We were supposed to be giving her the antibiotic in the canned food, but even without the medicine she would have nothing to do with that particular food! We had to hit the net and research cat food to find one that was close to the same analysis and give her the pills in that. Pilling Thorncat? Ha! Do not laugh make me! I value my limbs thank you very much.
Curiously the people at the vet's office just love Thorncat. They say she is a real sweetie, biddable, good tempered, tolerant of strange people and animals. ?!!? This is the same cat who nearly gave a guy an anklectomy because he stepped too close when walking past her? The same cat that nearly flayed my arms off when I had to whisk her away because she thought my parents yappy Italian greyhound looked like a tasty treat? The same cat that Jiji got into a fight with because she thought noisy babies should be shredded and Jiji is an ardent "Save the Kittens! No matter what species" kind of tomcat? Is there some alien frequency generator that turns her into a Stepford cat when she is at the vet's office?
NightMist