Scruffrat, I did do some work on this case last night, but I still haven't been able to clear a path towards treatment.
I am conviniced that her failure to eat her usual raw diet is not mental, because it is clear that as time passes she is having more and more pain again when she eats the processed diet. A lot of gagging, choking and shaking her head and mad flapping of the tongue. Since the nat mur, she has been eating, so her hydration and energy are pretty good (not severly debilitated -unlike the picture of merc cyan). What I can not dicount is that the Nat Mur works but does not last (I have no doubt that if I started her again, she would improve again, but then slide back to her original state within a few days of completing treatment). I know its time to move on, but I have been unable to find a successor to the nat m. I did see a link to phos however (it does have the burning throat and the dry stool), caust is still in the running as well as calc carb. Interesting link to carbo veg which I am inclined to dismiss because of her state. As promised the symptoms:
* raw, inflamed (but not infectious)back of mouth and throat area
* water comsumption minimal
* urine output normal
* stool, small and dry (which is normal if eating raw, but strange that it has not become more moist from the commercial diet)
* pain upon eating and I assume drinking (gagging etc) (anything going down the throat)
* mentally: normal to restless (restlessness could be attributed to confinement)-has been unusually vocal in the past week (never says a peep otherwise)
* tongue appears healthy, but may be considered "flat"
* front of mouth membranes of normal colour, front teeth (are the only teeth) and appear free of decay or tartar; no inflamation of the gums apparent towards the front of her mouth.
* large, distended abdomin (appears to be normal body type for her)
* light complected (light, apricot tabby; freckles)
* terrified of my touch, can not stand for me to touch her (but this has always been the case with her)
* live trapped 4 years ago (she is probably 6-7 years old) from a colony along with her kittens and another adult and her kittens (Becky, the other adult is probably her mother -she is not as feral and I would guess she had a home in her early life); family history strongly suggest inherant weakened immune systems; one of Emily's kittens died with no explaination, the other 3 all have had major dentistries; mother Becky also had major dentistry and both of her kids have chronic upper respiratory ailments