Our little cat (16 yrs) has been very ill and, although discharged from the vets' seemed to have given up the will to live. She had stopped eating, apart from licking a bit of gravy and drinking water. Her weight dropped from 3.9Kg to 3.2Kg - that's a lot. I've put in a concerted 2 days of teaspoons of cream licked off my finger, finely chopped raw kidney, bits of meat, highly expensive morceaux of casseroled fish etc., etc.. Hooray! I went up to see her (she's taken up residence in the shower-room) and this evening she has polished-off the lot, biscuits, cream, morceaux, meat et al. She is curled up, purring plumptiously. Think we may have turned the corner. :)