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Saw you could buy bf6 at Walmart for $25 for the series x. Thought it was worth a shot because I loved on the old ones but couldn’t justify paying $70 online. Came with a physical copy and 4 different things to download. After those downloads it says it requires a 120gb update and has been taking forever, much longer than what something would normally take at that size and the eta given. Is this normal? About to return it. It’s been 2 hours already.

13-year-old cat seems to just lay around all day and throws up dry food a lot. I’m worried about her quality of life. What would you do?
I’m really torn on what to do and would appreciate some outside opinions.
My cat is 13 years old. These days, she spends almost all of her time laying down. She has multiple cat beds, but she rarely uses them anymore. Most of the time she’ll just lay on the floor, whether she’s inside or outside. Or she’ll lay where I spend a lot of my time sitting (my chairs and bed)
She still loves going outside and stays in the backyard, but all she really does is find a spot and lay there. Sometimes she’ll walk over to me, flop down right next to me, and lay on her side. She doesn’t really want to sit on my lap anymore like she used to. Or be pet for long periods of time.
She used to curl up on my lap for an hour at a time. Now she’ll only stay if I’m actively petting her. As soon as I stop, she gets up and walks away. It feels like she isn’t comfortable enough to just relax anymore.
Food-wise, she gets wet food once or twice a day, has dry food available, plenty of fresh water, and probably more treats than she should (Churu treats are her favorite). She still eats and drinks and lightly plays when prompt to with toys. I also add a tummy topper that’s pumpkin that seems to give her more energy.
The biggest issue is that she throws up after eating dry food often about 30-50% of the time. I tried raising the bowl and scheduling her dry food instead of free-feeding, and for a while that seemed to help with the vomiting. But even then, she still seemed very low energy and spent almost all day laying on the floor. Today she threw up her dry food, and then an hour or two later she threw up yellow stomach bile which is rare and she was crying before she did this.
Financially, I can’t afford thousands of dollars in vet bills again.

I took her in a few years back and spent a lot on aemergency visit just for the throw up and the vet gave me medication for her liver. I believe she said she had Elevated ALT at the time. She’s been perfectly normal until just recently the past few months with being lethargic explained above. On top of that, she absolutely hates car rides. Ever since she was young, she starts dry heaving almost immediately in the car, and now that she’s older it honestly scares me to take her anywhere because I’m worried the stress could make things worse.
My mom thinks we should just keep her comfortable until she eventually passes naturally. But I’m struggling with whether that’s the right thing to do. I don’t want to keep her alive if she’s in pain or has no quality of life.
One thing that really gets to me is when I’m sitting outside with her. She’ll get up from wherever she’s laying, walk over to me, and then lay down right in front of me. It almost feels like she’s trying to tell me something, and I don’t know if I’m reading too much into it.
Right now, as I’m writing this, she just finished her wet food and is sitting up grooming herself. But I know she’ll probably go back to laying on the floor afterward.
For those of you who’ve had senior cats, does this sound like normal aging, or does it sound like she’s suffering? How did you know when your cat’s quality of life had declined enough that it was time to make difficult decisions? Are there things I should try before assuming the worst? (The photos are of her glory years, her new photos are miserable of her just laying down looking sad)