How to tell if a cat is hypothyroid?

[Guest guest]

Val and others,

How do you tell if a cat is hypothyroid, given that they naturally

sleep 60-80% of the time? If they are gaining weight excessively, I

can see, or if you can see myxedema, but some hypoT cases (in humans

at least) don't show weight gain, and myxedema is a rather late-stage

effect, isn't it?

Jim

[Guest guest]

With my cat there was a distinct lack of EVER playing. He went from

playing a few times a day as ALL cats of any age except the very old

eill do to not playing at all. When he lost his sense of play I knew

something weas badly wrong, then he because unsociable sleeping in the

most out of the way places he could find, which also was a difference in

normal behaviour as my cats always sleep on their beds or my bed, and he

was hiding under a bed in an unused room.

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