Krista's Care

[daftcat75]

4am “poop” was all squirt and no solids.

Like the last couple of weeks never happened.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Shoot! Another blowout poop! I think there was something of everything (I think there was some logs in there?). But mostly I heard and saw the liquid finish.

I’m sitting on the floor keeping an eye on her. She came over to lay next to me. Tail eventually rested on the floor. We may be done for now.

Turns out I have three different batches of Rawz Rabbit. Or had. I finished one. But I have 7/2022 and 9/2022.

It’s kind of moot if I can’t find more. These six cans will last about three days. My New Jersey order fell through. So far, I’m not seeing any evidence of their supply chain restarting. We may be heading back to rabbit and pumpkin pate.

Tough times. Hoping you can find more soon. My roomies went out yesterday to get some Rx and said shelves were empty and lines long down here in la-la land. Fortunately our cat supplies are non-specialist and we get them shipped out to us from Petco.com.
*PRAYERS* and best wishes for wellbeing, and abundant supplies!

 

[daftcat75]

Picked up another 24 cans of rabbit. So I’ve kicked the supply issue can down the road another 12 days. I haven’t looked at all the cans. In fact, I only looked at the first. But it’s a different batch than even the other two I have at home.

 

[daftcat75]

We had a solid poop!

She’s still capable of producing those.

But we also had a round two of pudding.

My leading guesses are that I under-medicated her for several days with the gel as it was difficult to apply and she was difficult to handle. That’s my first guess. And my second guess is that I’ve gotten lazy about the yeast. Third guess would be the constant shifting batches of Rawz.

We’ve gone back to pred halves in yeasty bites of raw rabbit. Even if she is adept at spitting out the halves, it’s still easier to know she got the full dose when both halves finally disappear.

I will just have to try harder to prepare yeast bites at second breakfast and second dinner like I used to.

I will find the batch I have the most of and feed that as long as I can to keep consistency there.

And tomorrow, for our dose day, she will get just enough tuna to insure the medicine goes down. We’ll find a different reward after that.

 

[daftcat75]

Sunday morning chemo dosing went smoothly enough.

I pulled the correct dose this time. I put it onto three or four bites of tuna. I made sure she ate every scrap on the plate. We're old hat at this since her pancreatitis two summers ago. I point to a piece, "eat that one. Good! Eat this one. Two more. Eat this. And you're done!" I gave her one more piece of tuna, broken up for the toothless one. No flinging cytotoxic food scraps! The rest of the tuna can I immediately poured down the drain so I would not be tempted to give her more today.

We started into our new batch cans from our SF food run yesterday. I work harder at shopping, buying, and feeding her than I do for myself. This is a completely different batch from the other two I had. It even has a different batch stamp. Not just a different date but different ink, different tooling. This looks like it may have come from the new "state of the art production facility". The future is now. Resistance is futile.

As for the food itself? Well, it was an instant hit with Krista. Her first plate of it is as clean as the tuna plate after her medicine meal. But...butt (?) It looks smooth (fatty) and not as rabbit-y as other batches. The smooth batches of turkey seemed to result in smoother poops, puddings, and squirts. Butt(!), this is what I have until I can get something different. Play it where it lands.

Good luck, little one!

 

[tarasgirl06]

Sunday morning chemo dosing went smoothly enough.

I pulled the correct dose this time. I put it onto three or four bites of tuna. I made sure she ate every scrap on the plate. We're old hat at this since her pancreatitis two summers ago. I point to a piece, "eat that one. Good! Eat this one. Two more. Eat this. And you're done!" I gave her one more piece of tuna, broken up for the toothless one. No flinging cytotoxic food scraps! The rest of the tuna can I immediately poured down the drain so I would not be tempted to give her more today.

We started into our new batch cans from our SF food run yesterday. I work harder at shopping, buying, and feeding her than I do for myself. This is a completely different batch from the other two I had. It even has a different batch stamp. Not just a different date but different ink, different tooling. This looks like it may have come from the new "state of the art production facility". The future is now. Resistance is futile.

As for the food itself? Well, it was an instant hit with Krista. Her first plate of it is as clean as the tuna plate after her medicine meal. But...butt (?) It looks smooth (fatty) and not as rabbit-y as other batches. The smooth batches of turkey seemed to result in smoother poops, puddings, and squirts. Butt(!), this is what I have until I can get something different. Play it where it lands.

Good luck, little one!

Krista: "YEASTY BITES! YEASTY BITES! I WANT YEASTY BITES! MRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!"

 

[daftcat75]

Solid poop!

Clean plate.

Warm kitty under the bookcase.

She loves this new batch of rabbit pate!

I just hope it loves her back.

 

[daftcat75]

Krista: "YEASTY BITES! YEASTY BITES! I WANT YEASTY BITES! MRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!"

I think she's gaming the system at pred time.

"He'll keep giving me more as long as I keep spitting out the pred half."

And I keep trying to teach her, "you'll get all the rest once you've eaten both halves."

It's still less struggle than the wet willy (transdermal gel.)

 

[tarasgirl06]

I think she's gaming the system at pred time.

"He'll keep giving me more as long as I keep spitting out the pred half."

And I keep trying to teach her, "you'll get all the rest once you've eaten both halves."

It's still less struggle than the wet willy (transdermal gel.)

Well, what do you expect? She's feline, after all...

 

[daftcat75]

We had a scoop of ice cream. It was somewhere between a solid poop and pudding.

And then we had the cytotoxic milkshake carpet bomb!

Chemical warfare!

I realize due to the ever shifting Rawz supply, even her canned food has been something different each dosing day. At least for now, I have 20 some cans of the same batch to help her get acclimated, hopefully before next dose on Wednesday.

She looks a little rough for the wear. We may still have another blowout or poop pukes tonight. Hopefully she’ll be feeling closer to normal in a day or two.

 

[tarasgirl06]

We had a scoop of ice cream. It was somewhere between a solid poop and pudding.

And then we had the cytotoxic milkshake carpet bomb!

Chemical warfare!

I realize due to the ever shifting Rawz supply, even her canned food has been something different each dosing day. At least for now, I have 20 some cans of the same batch to help her get acclimated, hopefully before next dose on Wednesday.

She looks a little rough for the wear. We may still have another blowout or poop pukes tonight. Hopefully she’ll be feeling closer to normal in a day or two.
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Yeah. I mean, they warn people about digestive issues with food switching anyway. Wish they could achieve consistency! For Krista's sake -- and yours, and your carpet's.

 

[daftcat75]

Yeah. I mean, they warn people about digestive issues with food switching anyway. Wish they could achieve consistency! For Krista's sake -- and yours, and your carpet's.

I have 20 some cans to try and build some consistency.

The Sacramento reseller that doesn’t charge shipping on orders over $50 has Rawz rabbit available for order on their website again. I ordered a case. Let’s see if this gets filled or falls through like the New Jersey order. Hopefully it will also be the same batch as what I have now.

Rawz has not been making this recovery easy for us.

 

[tarasgirl06]

I have 20 some cans to try and build some consistency.

The Sacramento reseller that doesn’t charge shipping on orders over $50 has Rawz rabbit available for order on their website again. I ordered a case. Let’s see if this gets filled or falls through like the New Jersey order. Hopefully it will also be the same batch as what I have now.

Rawz has not been making this recovery easy for us.

No, they haven't and for what they charge, they SHOULD. *Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr* *PRAYERS* and hope!!!

 

[daftcat75]

Where’s the ?

No poop since yesterday afternoon’s blowouts. I guess she’s got her own supply issues to work out.

She’s been eating well enough though.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Where’s the ?

No poop since yesterday afternoon’s blowouts. I guess she’s got her own supply issues to work out.

She’s been eating well enough though.

*Love that!* FYI if you have a twitter account, you might enjoy going to #QuarantineLife. ROFLMOTO for too long. Going back there asap.

 

[daftcat75]

That was the best poop she’s had all year. It was a poop sausage of superb consistency and mild aroma. It was so long though. There was more poop than cat. She had to get up on her tip-toes to get it to curl under and eventually break off. I thought she was going to go six feet in the air like Randy Marsh in that South Park episode.

Just when I thought we escaped without bonuses...


First the poop pukes...

Then carpet creamy peanut butter!

This was a two Bissell cleanup. Use the handheld for the bulk. And the upright for the remainder. The upright leaves a wider swath of wetter carpet. But it does the best job when set to Deep Clean. But Deep Cleaned carpet is wet for a full day! Otherwise I’d be doing Deep Clean every week.

Having finished the cleanup, I swapped out the food plate and she’s reduced lunch by half. So clearly she’s no worse for the wear.

 

[tarasgirl06]

That was the best poop she’s had all year. It was a poop sausage of superb consistency and mild aroma. It was so long though. There was more poop than cat. She had to get up on her tip-toes to get it to curl under and eventually break off. I thought she was going to go six feet in the air like Randy Marsh in that South Park episode.

Just when I thought we escaped without bonuses...


First the poop pukes...

Then carpet creamy peanut butter!

This was a two Bissell cleanup. Use the handheld for the bulk. And the upright for the remainder. The upright leaves a wider swath of wetter carpet. But it does the best job when set to Deep Clean. But Deep Cleaned carpet is wet for a full day! Otherwise I’d be doing Deep Clean every week.

Having finished the cleanup, I swapped out the food plate and she’s reduced lunch by half. So clearly she’s no worse for the wear.

I don't know whether to and or and . Thankful for Bissell, aren't we?

 

[daftcat75]

Perfect poop. So much of it! Three or more segments.

Then a softer poop.

Then...so much poop! I got a box under her but not before she got a peanut butter cup on the carpet.

Then we did the "add fresh litter, attract fresh poop" trick and got her final soft serve squirt and chocolate chips.

She went over 24 hours between poops. I think maybe if she was pooping twice a day again, she'd probably be alright.

But that's all moot now.

Tomorrow is another dosing day.

 

[daftcat75]

Dosing day went much smoother this morning. Rather than completely shock her gut and butt with surprise tuna twice a week, I squirted the dose over her raw rabbit and then dusted that up with her favorite treat: fish flakes! That's all that was needed. She made all of that disappear.

I don't know what it is. But she always eats very well on her dosing days--like something in the chemo medicine gives her appetite a charge. She's already turned in two clean plates and we're not yet to second breakfast according to schedule.

Since she's producing more poop than pudding (dosing day disasters aside), I am reducing the added psyllium. I also started her back on milk thistle powder. It's about time her liver got some support. And having seen that she can produce solid poop again, thanks to the chemo, if we can't regain that solidity before next dosing day, I can discontinue the milk thistle.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Dosing day went much smoother this morning. Rather than completely shock her gut and butt with surprise tuna twice a week, I squirted the dose over her raw rabbit and then dusted that up with her favorite treat: fish flakes! That's all that was needed. She made all of that disappear.

I don't know what it is. But she always eats very well on her dosing days--like something in the chemo medicine gives her appetite a charge. She's already turned in two clean plates and we're not yet to second breakfast according to schedule.

Since she's producing more poop than pudding (dosing day disasters aside), I am reducing the added psyllium. I also started her back on milk thistle powder. It's about time her liver got some support. And having seen that she can produce solid poop again, thanks to the chemo, if we can't regain that solidity before next dosing day, I can discontinue the milk thistle.

Sounds like mostly good progress! Bonito flakes are invaluable, I know. They have powdered bonito, too, that you can shake on food for a good coating.
Such a good girl Krista! Keep up the good work!