Your post was a hoot and wonderful to read all in one Go Krista and you!!
She is so sweet.Hidden Krista Cam
She spent all day under the bookcase yesterday. Couldn’t see her on either of my cameras. So I got a new camera about the size of a salt shaker for under the bookcase. I have closed up that blind spot in my Krista surveillance network.
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This cracked me up - I'm laughing so hard over here.We're done with the antibiotics! She had her predictably rough night and greeted the morning with a soft but not soupy poop. I was able to squeeze in a mid-afternoon tuna with pumpkin with half a probiotic portion yesterday. We will be doing that again until her poops are once again perfect. In the meantime, I bet I can also get bone broth into that portion. That tuna with pumpkin is powerful stuff. Got her through pancreatitis!
We still had a poopfoot. I thought I'd try the cat-in-the-bag. I thought I had her bagged. I got up to get my phone because, "pics or it didn't happen" and she was already one paw poking out the neck and singing a freedom song. There was no pushing that paw back down. I had to do it. I had no choice. I had to let the cat out of the bag.
I think punk rock Krista's neck is too skinny for the bag.
So after a week of antibiotics,
Challenges:
- Twisted tummy and soupy poops
- Weight loss (about 0.2 lbs)
- Dodgy appetite
Successes:
- Less head shaking and scratching but not eliminated
- She got her voice back. She had a mute meow with a squeak at the end. The squeak was cute. Now she's got her meow back. I wonder if the FortifFlora and Fancy Feast were causing an inflammation reaction that affected her throat.
- She's moving a lot better. She's still occasionally wobbly, sassy walk, or misses a landing but it's better than a week ago. This could just be normal progression that may have happened without the antibiotics.
- She's hiding less. She spends most mornings in the office with me in her new favorite tree. Even if she doesn't fit very well in the top perch. She's not a big cat but that's not a big perch.
- She will take probiotic and probably bone broth with tuna pumpkin portion. So we have a medicine meal now.
I'll schedule a vet visit for the weekend to check the ear and recheck the liver chemistry. And also put another charge in her with a B-12. Since they sold me a bottle, as long as I bring my bottle in, they don't charge me for the B-12 shot. So I might as well make them the villain.
I was not a hairball - it was a love ball.My birthday: a hairball
Father's Day: a hairball
Christmas: a hairball
Valentines Day: you're a day late, but thank you for the hairball
I know you make them yourself. I should be touched. But can't you just give me socks instead?
No, no, no, no, no. This is not a tooth issue again... it was her attempt to get drunk in celebration!I'm actually a little concerned. Krista who has never shown much interest in drinking water is starting to drink water aside from the moisture she gets from her food. Her hairball this morning was three very liquid barfs as is if she digested all the food but had been holding on to the liquid. Oh! One other possibility (I just thought of) is that perhaps she's not eating as much as I think she is but only consuming as much of the liquid as she can. Shoot! That sounds like mouth pain. Why can't this cat catch a break?! We already have a vet appointment for tomorrow to recheck the ear and liver so I'll bring this up too.
Poor little girl But I am glad she already has Vet appointment tomorrow.She seemed so good yesterday. She finally started eating well in the evening and through the night. She was active and purring and trilling. Today she's hunched and drinking so much water and in place of her trill is this pathetic gurgle like a wet burp.
Lithothamnium, Sea Calcium Supplement for Cats | Vitality Science
I did give her a pinch of seaweed calcium (Lithothanium from Vitality Science) earlier this morning to dry up her soupy stools. I wonder if that just didn't sit well. I'm really hoping this is just an acute reaciton to something and not the beginning of her next leg down.
I need to get out of here and stop hovering. Let her rest up and see if she's feeling better in the evening.
you are such a patient and caring Daddy!This meal is going worse. She's hungry but her mouth is hurting. I re-dosed her bupe and that sort of helped but I think we tried to eat again too soon. So I sat in the office with her with the cat rock softly playing while I read about CKD cats. And some time later she got up to look at me and say, I think I'm ready to try again. So I pulled out the plate of thinly spread turkey gruel with water and tuna water and started mixing in powdered fish flakes and fish oil from capsules until she worked up the courage to try again. We got further and it was looking promising. But then she got something caught in her mouth and it took her a good five minutes of tongue on teeth and grooming to get whatever that was out. So now I'm here typing this up and waiting for her to decide whether she's got another go in her or we go back to bed and try again in a few more hours. I don't care what her liver numbers say anymore. We need to do another dental. I don't want to do another feeding tube. She wants to eat. We just need to fix her mouth so that she can eat without pain.