She can't sit on her haunches any more. She lies down or stands up, or sits on her tailbone. She walks okay, gets up and down with her stools, but never sits.
Also, she's having some constipation and that is probably something to do with being unable to crouch for long enough.
I'm starting to understand why people are willing to use metacam in their cats. I wouldn't use it in a younger cat, but with Mazy cat, I am starting to....weaken. Quality of life being more important than quantity, will I risk kidney failure to give her a pain free life?
I know I need to give the GLM time to work.
I know there are other alternatives, cold laser and adequan injections. But of course those (and metacam too) involve bring Mazy cat to the vet. And we all know what that's like.
She plays every day. She likes to chase the Yeeow tomato. I roll it, she does a point and wiggle then trots after it. She no longer kicks at it with her hind feet, just kind of lowers herself to the floor and grabs it with her front paws.
She'll play with a string or wand toy, batting at it, even chasing it for a few minutes, but inevitably lies down and bats at it that way.
It's even more difficult taking her to the vet now that my vet is so anti-raw and blames everything on the raw diet.
<edit> I just watched her scratching on the cardboard X scratcher. You'd never know there was a thing wrong seeing her do that. So why can't she sit?