Introducing Betty White

[daftcat75]

 

[artiemom]

Omgosh... Betty is a love.... She is so stationary! You can tell how much she loves and trusts you...

 

[tarasgirl06]

Betty BOOPerina!

 

[daftcat75]

I think she missed some prime eating time last night discovering the loophole in my automation. I left the office Dyson set to 76 at the end of the day. So of course when I woke in the middle of the night between first and second sleep and cleaned her litterbox, "wow! that's toasty in there. If the daybed was bigger, I'd join you in there." Instead, I set it back to 74 and she joined me back in the front room within an hour.

Another 140 calories day.

One thing I can think of is that we switched from the s. boulardii from AB that she was taking to half her capsules are re-packed Jarrow brand. Let's see this through to the weigh-in on Sunday. Monday night, I'll let her skip the second SB (Jarrow) capsule and we'll go with just the one AB SB (AnimalBiome saccharomyces boulardii) for a few days. In the meantime, AB sells an s. boulardii that doesn't have the bacteriophage ingredient they are worried about me over-doing. Perhaps the differences in pre-biotic between AB and Jarrow was enough to give her appetite a pause this week. But yeah, I first want to see how big a problem her reduced calories may or may not be before I make any changes ahead of her Monday vet appointment.

 

[tarasgirl06]

I think she missed some prime eating time last night discovering the loophole in my automation. I left the office Dyson set to 76 at the end of the day. So of course when I woke in the middle of the night between first and second sleep and cleaned her litterbox, "wow! that's toasty in there. If the daybed was bigger, I'd join you in there." Instead, I set it back to 74 and she joined me back in the front room within an hour.

Another 140 calories day.

One thing I can think of is that we switched from the s. boulardii from AB that she was taking to half her capsules are re-packed Jarrow brand. Let's see this through to the weigh-in on Sunday. Monday night, I'll let her skip the second SB (Jarrow) capsule and we'll go with just the one AB SB (AnimalBiome saccharomyces boulardii) for a few days. In the meantime, AB sells an s. boulardii that doesn't have the bacteriophage ingredient they are worried about me over-doing. Perhaps the differences in pre-biotic between AB and Jarrow was enough to give her appetite a pause this week. But yeah, I first want to see how big a problem her reduced calories may or may not be before I make any changes ahead of her Monday vet appointment.

Sounds like a good and logical plan.
IDK about daybed, but I DO know that I wish most, if not all, of the floofy, soft, cloudish cat beds were also made in sizes for hoomans PLUS cats. Of course it'd be very counterproductive, though, which may be why they don't.

 

[daftcat75]

Shoot! Her "approachable" remainders no longer seem that approachable anymore. It used to be any remainder around 25 grams was well-within a second pass. First and second pass on breakfast seem to be about half that. She had plenty of time for a third pass and didn't take it. I dumped a 9 gram remainder and added 5 grams to lunch. I even plated lunch 30 minutes earlier. After a brief fussing, she decided she wanted to sleep in the poof more than a first pass on lunch. I have an errand to take care of. Maybe she'll take first pass while I'm out. I really want to drop the second s. boulardii tonight. But I also really want the data of what her 140ish calories a day is going to translate to at the weigh-in.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Shoot! Her "approachable" remainders no longer seem that approachable anymore. It used to be any remainder around 25 grams was well-within a second pass. First and second pass on breakfast seem to be about half that. She had plenty of time for a third pass and didn't take it. I dumped a 9 gram remainder and added 5 grams to lunch. I even plated lunch 30 minutes earlier. After a brief fussing, she decided she wanted to sleep in the poof more than a first pass on lunch. I have an errand to take care of. Maybe she'll take first pass while I'm out. I really want to drop the second s. boulardii tonight. But I also really want the data of what her 140ish calories a day is going to translate to at the weigh-in.

Yeah. As cooler weather and shorter days approach, a lot of us feel more like luxuriating and enjoying in comfort. I see Elvis is eating with more enthusiasm, and he's eating more, which I'm glad of. Also, his fur is floofing up and out more.
Hoping Betty cleans up her plate(s)! and gives you good results.

 

[daftcat75]

Yeah. As cooler weather and shorter days approach, a lot of us feel more like luxuriating and enjoying in comfort. I see Elvis is eating with more enthusiasm, and he's eating more, which I'm glad of. Also, his fur is floofing up and out more.
Hoping Betty cleans up her plate(s)! and gives you good results.

Everyone says cats eat more with colder weather. Betty's being different.

 

[daftcat75]

I really did not want to give her the second sb capsule tonight. But I don’t want my weigh-in to be off because she suddenly consumed 180 calories tomorrow. I will not be giving her a second one tomorrow night. She can go porkers on the overnight tomorrow if she feels like it. That shouldn’t make that much difference with the weigh in the next morning.

She seems determined to leave remainders. I added five grams to lunch and she left a ten gram remainder. “I meant to leave that!” So now we’re five more behind today.

 

[daftcat75]

Gah!

I just realized I’ve been feeding her expired s boulardii from the Jarrow brand. It’s probably more ineffective than harmful. But the point is, she won’t miss the second capsule when I discontinue those tonight. If anything, it’s maybe just where we were the other week when I was only giving one. I will give her a break from the second pill. If that still doesn’t help, I am ordering the other s boulardii from AB that doesn’t have the bacteriophage ingredient they are worried about me overdoing.

She had one or two passes on dinner last night and never touched the feeder: a depressing 130 calories. I’m concerned she won’t get enough nutrients if she continues under-eating. But she still seems interested and capable of things she always does. Except clean a plate.

 

[daftcat75]

She finished breakfast for the first time since Tuesday. I did pad her first pass with carpet morsels—morsels of food fed off the carpet, not morsels of carpet fed as food. Though she used to eat that too.

 

[tarasgirl06]

She finished breakfast for the first time since Tuesday. I did pad her first pass with carpet morsels—morsels of food fed off the carpet, not morsels of carpet fed as food. Though she used to eat that too.

In their natural habitat, felidae often bury their prey and come back to it. That may be an instinctual cat thing with Betty. *Or not.* Better than carpet morsels (morsels of carpet fed as food) though, right?
Only 130? Not what I'd expect at this time of year and with Betty looking and acting healthy/normal otherwise. Hopefully she's picked up today?

 

[daftcat75]

So far she’s turned in a clean breakfast and clean lunch plate. But it looks like she may turn in a remainder on first dinner. Which is okay. She has budget for a couple remainders. Just not remainders on all meals, half plates, and skipping the feeder altogether.

 

[daftcat75]

She left a small remainder on second dinner and ate half the feeder. Final score: 165 calories. That’s the most all week.

She patiently awaited my alarm this morning. I didn’t remember about the clock change until after I fed her breakfast. Maybe that’s why breakfast got a sniff and snub. She was an hour past due. But she ate carpet morsels (food off the carpet not carpet itself) I dropped down for her and cleared half her breakfast this way. Now I’m having a hard time remaining in bed an extra hour for third sleep. I’m trying to stick to my schedule but my stomach is starting to notice the extra hour.

 

[daftcat75]

Last week: 10.42. This week: 10.46

Prior week daily average: 165 calories.

Last week daily average: 150 calories

 

[Margot Lane]

If it’s of any comfort, my cat is eating less too. Seems to be napping more. But, that could be old age or the fact that he knows there is MiraLax hiding in his food. I do wonder if cats follow some kind of semi hibernation thing, following the cold weeather.

 

[tarasgirl06]

I feel sure that some, if not all, do, Margot Lane specially where there's less daylight and more cool/cold weather.
So 10.46, Betty? Where's all that coming from? Inquiring minds want to know.
Oh yeah, time changes. I have a combo box (DVD/videocassette player!) that, because of its age and the changing of time change time back when it was a young machine, switches over before it now should. So if I wake up and see that, as I did last week, I was totally confuzzled. It's the clock I see when I wake up. Took care of that. This morning I woke up an hour early because my body clock told me to. I'm very light-sensitive; and I didn't know what Elvis' reaction would be to the "earlier daylight." He was happy to stay with me for that extra hour and didn't tell me to feed him "early," which worked out fine.

 

[daftcat75]

It's odd that her intake dipped but she gained weight. Sort of. I consider that within the margin of error of the scale. I mean there was that poop of hers I weighed the other week (for science!) that came out to 0.05 lbs. Anything within +/- 0.05 lbs is within the margin of poop.

I didn't notice the time change until her breakfast. By that time, we were an hour late, and she never mentioned anything sooner. The microwave and stove are the only clocks (and my very old school digital watch) that don't automatically change these days. As we got closer to lunch and she still hadn't finished breakfast, I wondered if her tummy was all off from the change. But sure enough, around 11am she went back to her plate and finished up breakfast for the second time in over a week. Maybe she, like me, just needed an extra week or two to adjust to the temperature and weather changing. And maybe it really was feeding her an expired probiotic that was tanking her appetite. We shall see what the vet says tomorrow about her body condition and lab work and calories intake.

 

[tarasgirl06]

It's odd that her intake dipped but she gained weight. Sort of. I consider that within the margin of error of the scale. I mean there was that poop of hers I weighed the other week (for science!) that came out to 0.05 lbs. Anything within +/- 0.05 lbs is within the margin of poop.

I didn't notice the time change until her breakfast. By that time, we were an hour late, and she never mentioned anything sooner. The microwave and stove are the only clocks (and my very old school digital watch) that don't automatically change these days. As we got closer to lunch and she still hadn't finished breakfast, I wondered if her tummy was all off from the change. But sure enough, around 11am she went back to her plate and finished up breakfast for the second time in over a week. Maybe she, like me, just needed an extra week or two to adjust to the temperature and weather changing. And maybe it really was feeding her an expired probiotic that was tanking her appetite. We shall see what the vet says tomorrow about her body condition and lab work and calories intake.

*Which will hopefull be all good.*

 

[daftcat75]

Last night I got back from the taproom just as Betty was finishing her lunch. Amazingly, she still showed up for meds. Predictably she didn’t eat much of dinner. I gave her a carpet morsel or two because I didn’t know how much lunch she had just finished. She left a first dinner remainder at the end of the shift. That could also could have been predicted. She left a small remainder on second dinner and ate half the feeder. Final score yesterday: 158 calories.

This morning we had an eager meds taker. But a sniff and snub on breakfast. I gave her a few carpet morsels to get a half ounce in her. She came back for second pass during my breakfast. Instead of getting Betty lap time with my breakfast, I got to see her (mostly) finish hers and go off for an after breakfast nap on the bed. This is excellent. That remainder is both well-within reach and also not so large if she wants to skip it. It’s probably not big enough to cause her much grief if she gets nervous on the drive to or at the vet office.

I’m definitely more nervous about the vet than she is. I’ve told her at least a dozen times that this visit is coming. She can’t act like she didn’t know. We’ll do alright with the trip itself. I’ll leave enough time so we can take surface streets. She doesn’t like the freeway and I don’t blame her. It’s more the results that I’m nervous about.