Yesterday my friend told me about her cat's problem (I'm the crazy cat friend so everybody tell me their problems now) So I gave suggestions for a better (senior) food for her 12 year old cat and told her she needs to go to the vet. She was complaining about spending the money and acting like the cat always ate the same thing so why should she switch. I got mad because if you are not going to listen to me, please don't tell me the story because now I will worry and I can't do anything about it. But I guess the guilt trip worked because she went to the vet today and spent $180 and he found ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with the cat and didn't even make any suggestions for a diet change. (FYI- not my vet) So I am bringing her a can of my Wellness formula (healthy) and one of my Fancy Feast Elegant Medleys (tasty treat) to see if that helps get the cat interested in eating. Anybody have other ideas for poor Spanky?

From my expreience with my cat, whom is older she stopped eating as much and became very skinny. The vet had told me it is a problem with her thyroid. So she may check into that. The vet should have noticed however if that was the prob.
Hope it all works out.

Thank you. I asked her today and they did check for thyroid. My friend is just not willing to go any further with paying for tests than she has already. But they have been trying really hard to get the cat intersted in eating and have even tried baby food and she's eating better. Her daughter was home from college this weekend and gave the cat lots of TLC. She's doing a bit better. My own pets are like my children. Not everybody feels that way and it's just hard for me to hear it sometimes. So I try to help as much as they are willing listen.

The age is quite decent and would deserve a little bloodwork.
Anorexia in cats is very dangerous since they get the Fatty liver disease and will die without expensive vet care.
Just do the bloodwork (cost around 100$) and that will screen all the important organs in one-liver, kidney, thyroid, pancreas, plus also feline infections-FIV, FeLV.
If these all are normal then it also could be teeth problems, if she doesn't want to spend money on dental, at least she can switch to soft food that will be more palatable for the cat if her tooth/teeth hurt and it's hard to chew the kibbles.
But saving money and not doing bloodwork now will cost her much more money or the lost of the cat in the future.