My cat is a pure breed, skinny, neutered male of a breed related to siamese and the last few years he has been getting skinnier. He is 14 years old but I’m not sure if he’s just showing his age or got some disease or cancer. He has a bony back and shoulders and always acts like he’s starving but also tends to vomit up his food since he doesn’t chew and never really has chewed much. Should I be worried he has cancer?

He seems energetic enough but can’t eat most cat foods without vomiting and has a very restrictive diet of IAM’s hairball treatment dry food and the occasional spoon of wet food later in the day. I can’t really afford to get him an X-ray and any minor vet visit usually has the vet saying he’s fine, just very picky. I doubt this but would appreciate any comments from people with cats who also vomit very frequently.
He eats 3 meals a day. A quarter cup of dry food in the morning and night. And about 2 tablespoons of wet food with gravy at mid-day. His vomiting usually does not have hairballs. He just seems to either *** or have to urge to vomit after a while. We also have to keep him locked up for an hour after every meal in case he vomits. Any walking around can often trigger it too. He’s always been bad about eating his food fast and not chewing but he’s never become fat. In fact he should be fat now and yet looks skinny. It all seems to pass thru him like he’s not absorbing it all.

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and is the vaccination good at preventing it?
he has already been vaccinated, and I perfer him to be an inside cat but he always finds a way to escape. just wandering thanks

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i took in a cat from a guy that said he was moving and couldn’t take his cat with him. we found the cat a new home…today the people called and said he tested pos. for feline leukemia. no vet is open for me to ask and I’m not very good on the internet,finding what I’m looking for. so please if there is a vet or equally educated person..please help.. the most important thing i am worried about is my family.can they get it? i have a 4yr old who gives kisses to kitty(i know its gross and try to make sure he doesn’t but have missed a few I’m sure). and the kids have been scratched while playing with the cats..
also what should i do for the our own cats,now that they have been exposed(yes i am taking them all in first thing monday to be tested). like how do i clean up so it wont spread or stay in my house and on my property? help!!

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One of our kitties was just diagnosed with cancer of the white blood cells. The vet wants to do an ultrasound a bunch of tests worth about a thousand dollars. The kitty is extremely underweight and is lethargic. My question: Is there any hope of a cure for this type of cancer in cats or would we just be prolonging the cat’s suffering?
According to the vet it is a lymphoma and not feline leukemia if that helps.

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I had my now 4 month old kitten to the vet for his booster shots, and asked the vet to check his eyes because one was smaller than the other and I wanted to be sure of what was wrong.

The vet said that one of his pupils are fixed, and that he could go blind in that eye and as it is he has poor vision in it. I have to decide if I can afford to pay for the eye specialist when he is in, but I’ll start saving money since that’s not til September.

The vet said that I could be a sign of feline leukemia, and that I could test him when he gets fixed. But from what I’ve read there’s no cure, and treatment is expensive and doesn’t work all the time.

I have no other cats and no plans to have anymore cats, he’s an indoor only cat (he HATES the outside, scared of cars), and perfectly healthy otherwise. Would it be better to just not know?

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