@Loco Lucas I am rather positive the diet is killing your RTC. It might have developed a fatty liver disease from eating chicken and the warm-blooded likes. Yellow in its eyes also might indicate a liver problem. If you described its diet now and over the years, I might be able to offer more thoughts. Perhaps there is a problem with a vitamin deficiency.
Sorry I did not see this. Bad cat's eyes were not yellow. 3 months ago he was doing great!
I was feeding him boiled eggs, shrimp, chicken, fish...
Then he started to barf up the fish... then barf up the chicken... refused shrimp... then just refused to eat.
At 16 pounds he was big, but he was not "fat" so 9 years of taking care of him, I'm really bummed.
My condolences, I know how you feel. I recently lost my own big cat, an apurensis jelly cat, after only 4 years. No visible decline in activity or appetite or behaviour, just...bang, dead within minutes.
They aren't true pets, IMHO, but it's impossible not to become attached and to feel the loss. And it's hard not to feel a bit guilty about it. My jelly was only about 4 years old; the other one I owned, many years ago, I had for about a decade and know for a fact that when it died it was something like 30 years old...and it died accidentally, so who knows how long it might have lived otherwise? If you keep a Guppy or a Neon Tetra for 4 years, you're doing everything right. But a 5 or 10 pound catfish? That's nothing. Big cats are long-lived, or at least have the potential to be. That ingratiates them to us, but it also makes it much more devastating when we do eventually lose them.
