This comes after several months of nonstop vet bills to diagnose what is going on. Throughout this, he has been acting almost entirely normal and is still the most food motivated cat I have ever met. All lab results always came back positive, showing him to be very healthy. In the last 6 months or so, we had noticed he was losing weight. The vets showed little concern, attributing it to age.

In January, he had a costly tooth extraction which went very well. We believed mouth pain had made eating dry food painful, leading to weight loss as his diet now mainly consisted of wet food - which he always screams at us for, starting about an hour and a half before meal time. Since the extraction, he has been back to grazing dry food occasionally but gets 2 cans of wet every day now.

In the last month, he was experiencing bouts of diarrhea. In the last few weeks, we found that he was not always using the litterbox, which is extremely out of character for him. We brought him back to the vet and during the check-up, they felt a mass in his abdomen. An ultrasound confirmed that there was indeed a mass. He was prescribed some food that he really loved. This seemed to make his bowel movements more regular, though diarrhea persisted.