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Betty BOOPerina!
Sounds like a good and logical plan.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.
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.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.
Everyone says cats eat more with colder weather. Betty's being different.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.
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?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.
*Which will hopefull be all good.*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.