Senior cat with dementia anyone?

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4. other ideas: kidneys or thyroid

Besides diabetes, kidney failure can cause weight loss, hunger and confusion. Mine was in a kind of fog during his last months. He always peed in his box, but started pooping other places, as if he didn't know where to do it. Behind the couch, by the front door, etc.

Then his hair started falling out. He was on a heart medication at the end and had edema, and we probably let him go on too long. The homemade low protein recipe I made him didn't work (wouldn't eat it). But he'd eat odd things like bits of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Made it easy to give him his pill inside those.

Your kitty really needs her vitals checked, somehow or other. Best wishes.

I had another cat who became hyperthyroid and did other things, like pace around and meow loudly a lot. She also lost weight and we got her on a pill, which helped.