Cat Sick - Need advice.

[MegaScientifical]

My family has control over that, and they won't do it, because even that costs money. They are all tied up in different things. My grandmother is getting some surgery, and he values her over the cat. Not saying a cat is worth more than her - I'm saying this cat has looked after us, been there for us... I find them equal for their love and affection, and there must be a way of accommodating everyone.

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[Mocha Furrier]

I hate cats, dogs are so much better, can you buy a doge?

How do you dare come into a thread where OP's cat is dying and near death just to "I hate cats" "buy a dog instead".

Apparently you have no feelings against other creatures than dogs.

Ontopic: Im sorry, you must feel horrible.. 

[MegaScientifical]

He sits next to me all the time, and I look over and he seems so comfortable. It doesn't seem like anything really helps. We've been getting him to take in food, but he isn't fairing much better from that.

[MegaScientifical]

We got him to a point where he was actively eating and asking for food on his own. Then a few hours ago, he stopped eating again. After talking to someone, I realized I had started giving him the dry food from before he got sick again. I'm thinking either the dry food or his reaction to dry food is to blame. Essentially, until the dry food works out of his system, he won't eat again. Does that make sense?

[Cybertails1998]

Yeah, sounds like it. Do you have anything else to feed him?

[MegaScientifical]

We have the wet food we've been feeding hi, and I suppose we'll be force feeding him it for a while again... Damn...

[Cuddles le Bear]

The Cat probably is going to die. This happened to one of my cats earlier. The next week I found her dead on the stairway.

[MegaScientifical]

He eats on his own now, although he doesn't like using stairs. AKA he goes in the dining room instead of his litter box in the basement and we have to be mad at him which scares him down the stairs to finish up.

[Nonnel]

He eats on his own now, although he doesn't like using stairs. AKA he goes in the dining room instead of his litter box in the basement and we have to be mad at him which scares him down the stairs to finish up.

Maybe you should move the litter box to the dining room.

[Snuffers!]

He eats on his own now, although he doesn't like using stairs. AKA he goes in the dining room instead of his litter box in the basement and we have to be mad at him which scares him down the stairs to finish up.

Glad to hear that your cat is doing better.

[MegaScientifical]

Not really. He's developed other problems. His ribs on one side feel very strange, and furthermore he's developed a bad claw.

That's actually why I'm back here: He's taken to sleeping under my desk with this blanket half under, and half an hour ago he stretched his paw and accidentally hooked the bad one. Since then, we've been fighting trying to free him. He growls on his own - the claw hurts him in general while stuck. He also fell to his side when it was stuck, pushing it more into it. We've gotten him to stand up by pouring food, but the just tugs on his arm, growls and hisses at his own pain, then eventually falls back over. Last time he tried really hard to get free, only to get himself more pain by turning the wrong way and such. I'm able to keep him calm by showing him my hands, being careful with him, petting, but when I try to do anything with his stuck paw he growls and swats at me.

How can I get him unstuck? For now, he's resting, still stuck. I've tried giving the blanket slack, pushing it, etc. But he doesn't give me enough time before freaking out. The only times he stands up, which is the best time to unstuck it, he is too mobile to deal with.

Edit: You know how after a while, you get mannerisms with your pet? I reached my hand at his paw, stopped to let him respond. He used the back of his paw to paw me hand away carefully. AKA "No, don't try. Just let me sleep."

Edit2: He slept for a while, started waking up. Looked at me like "Did we really fight like that? o_O Wow." Then he started getting up, hissed. I started talking to him about how he needs to be careful (I know, I'm insane. But it really makes me sad how he's getting all these problems, makes me lose my mind). Suddenly, I notice he's moved away from the blanket to the far side under there. As I'm sure he's off it, I take the whole blanket and put it elsewhere.

Then he just walks off to his food as usual. He was acting so normal, but anything involving that paw snapped him into a pissed off beast.