An appetite stimulant for a cat is often given every other day or every third day, not daily - which is exactly why it is so easy to lose track of when the next dose is actually due. PetHealthLog lets you set that every-48-to-72-hour schedule, mark each dose, catch the ones that slip, and log how much your cat actually ate and its weight on the same timeline. Free, no account, works offline.
Start tracking - it's freeWhen a cat stops eating - often with kidney disease, after surgery, or in old age - a vet may reach for an appetite stimulant such as mirtazapine. The catch is that cats clear it slowly, so a common oral schedule is every 48 to 72 hours rather than once a day, and a cat with kidney or liver disease may need it spaced out further still.
That every-other-day rhythm is far harder to hold in your head than a daily pill. "Was it yesterday or the day before?" is an easy question to get wrong when you are worried and tired, and a dose given a day early or a day late quietly undoes the steady pattern the vet was aiming for.
A tracker built for that interval closes the gap. PetHealthLog is free, asks for no account and works offline, so the next dose has a clear due date and the every-other-day schedule stops living in your memory.
An appetite log only helps if it fits an unusual dosing interval and is clear to show a vet at the next visit. Here is how PetHealthLog handles both.
Add the appetite stimulant by name and set it to the interval your vet gave - every other day, every third day, or whatever they advised. The next dose shows a clear due date instead of leaving you to count days since the last one.
Tick a dose as you give it, and one that was skipped or doubled-up stays visible rather than vanishing. On an every-other-day schedule, losing track of which day you are on is the single most common slip - and now it is something you can see.
The whole point is to get your cat eating, so record the result: a full meal, a few bites, or a refusal, right next to each dose. Over a couple of weeks that note is what tells you whether the stimulant is working.
Weight is the slow, honest signal of whether appetite is recovering, and a quick note about restlessness or extra vocalising sits beside the doses too - so the full picture stays in one place.
Export a clean PDF of the doses, the appetite notes and the weight to take to the vet. The recheck starts from a real record of what was given and how your cat responded, not a recollection of a hard few weeks.
Getting any medication into a cat that has gone off its food is its own challenge. The appetite stimulant itself is a prescription decided by your vet, but the everyday tools that make giving it less of a fight - pill pockets, a small syringe feeder for assisted feeding, or a water-fountain to keep a fussy cat hydrated - are things owners often buy alongside.
Once your vet has set the plan, these search links show popular options on Amazon. The medication itself comes from your vet - these are just the everyday extras that make dosing and feeding easier.
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An every-other-day dose is the kind of thing you give first thing in the morning, sometimes before you are fully awake, and you need to know in two seconds whether today is a dosing day. The last thing that should stand in the way is a login screen or a dead signal in the kitchen.
PetHealthLog stores everything locally on your device. There is no account to create, nothing is uploaded to a server, and there is no tracking. It opens instantly, lets you check the schedule or mark a dose whether or not you are online, and keeps the data yours. You can export a backup any time and restore it on another phone.
Free, offline, and ready the moment you open it.
Start with PetHealthLogBefore a stimulant is prescribed, the question is how long your cat has gone without food. Log refused meals and watch the hours since the last real meal.
Schedule each phosphate binder against meals, catch missed doses, and log appetite and weight for a cat with chronic kidney disease.
Keep the renal diet, water intake and appetite in one place, so you can tell whether your cat is actually eating enough of the right food.
Log weight over time to see whether a thin or recovering cat is slowly turning the corner, and share the trend with your vet.
Schedule every long-term medication for an older cat, catch missed doses, and keep meds, weight and vet visits together.