My cat is dying. How can I keep her comfortable?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Pet Island > My cat is dying. How can I keep her comfortable?

Crooked Booty: Apr 2, 2009; arrr

Huge_Midget posted:

Just found out today that our 14 year old Bengal has lymphoma. He's not had much of an appetite for the past week or so and we've been giving him subcutaneous fluids and just got some prednisone to try to help the inflammation and to stimulate his appetite. I don't know what to expect or do, I know his time is limited but I don't know if we should try the steroids and see if it helps or if we just need to say our goodbyes and not prolong his discomfort.

I would definitely try the pred if it were my cat. There are different kinds of lymphoma in cats but some are really slow to progress. Pred does help with with inflammation and appetite like you said, but it also straight up kills the cancer cells of lymphoma to an extent, so in some cats it buys a whole lot of quality time. Pred also works pretty quickly when it works, so you don't have a whole lot to lose by trying (unless it's really difficult and stressful to get the pred into your cat).

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