Question about cat not eating

[5GodsDown]

This wouldn't worry me. I am a recently retired vet tech (25 years), and currently own 13 indoor only cats.
Cats puke. It's a fact of life. Mouse parts, hair balls, grass, you name it. Temporary anorexia isn't usually cause for alarm, especially with an outside cats. If he's eating ok now, and acting normal, I would not worry. If it happens regularly, he isn't acting right, is drinking or urinating more (or less!) than usual, or losing weight, a trip to the vet may be in order.
As you say you are a new cat owner, just as an FYI, you should always pay attention to whether your male cat is urinating. Urinary tract blockage can be fatal in very short order. Symptoms would be straining to urinate, multiple trips to the box while producing little to no urine, yowling when urinating, painful abdomen, and occasionally, vomiting.

That would of course be an alarming sight, even to a new cat owner! As far as I know no problems there. It seemed to me he was drinking more, but it could just be he's drinking more inside the house. He usually goes outside and has a drink with the chickens, but I have two new ones, so the coop is closed for him now.

 

[CatWhisperer]

Glad to hear he is feeling better.

 

[Kluk-Kluk]

Hunting, sleeping, vomiting, purring... sounds like a normal cat to me.

Sounds like our cat. Glad to hear your cat is better, 5GodsDown!

 

[Dinogrrl]

Yeah sometimes, just like with us, an animal is just 'off' their food for whatever reason. One day of not eating is not terribly alarming, unless the animal is also not acting normal, or having vomiting/diarrhea, or showing some other symptoms. If the hunger strike continues more than a day, and/or in the face of particularly tempting food offerings, then absolutely you need to get the cat to a vet. Cats do not handle going without food well.

 

[5GodsDown]

Hi all

He did it again this Sunday. Barely eating, not being his cuddly self and constantly sleeping. While it's not weird for a cat to sleep almost all of the time, he's never sleeping that long when I'm home and when sleeping, he'll try to find a spot on my lap or shoulders. The only reason I didn't call the vet was because he was still eating little bits once in a while and didn't say no to treats (gave only one to test this).

By now he's back being his old self, but he had me worried. It's the second Sunday in a row he was like this and now it also lasted the entire Monday. Is my sleeping in on Sunday throwing him off that much? I sleep in on Fridays too, no problem there it seems...

 

[Dinogrrl]

I agree, since it's the second time in a short span, it's time to go see the vet.

 

[5GodsDown]

I tried to call the vet after work yesterday but was not able to reach her, I'll try again today. Archie is fully back to normal now, but it took a bit longer than last week.

 

[5GodsDown]

The vet couldn't find anything. She advised me to keep track of when he's acting weird and to take his temperature those days. Since it happened twice on Sunday we also agreed to lock the cat door Saturday night. Maybe it's all coincidental or maybe it's sort of an infection with a certain cycle, but the vet expected he'd feel bad for a longer period in that case.

 

[5GodsDown]

No weird Sunday blues for Archie this time. I kept him inside from Saturday evening until Sunday around noon, even then I called him every now and then to check how far he was and he always arrived within seconds (he's neutered and rarely wanders off)

 

[CatWhisperer]

Glad he’s having a better weekend this time.