Oh no. I was going to say it's good that the furball passed through her system. But then I read the 2 subsequent posts. Yeah, something's not normal here.Shoot! I thought mixing a little A/D into her I/D would get her eating her meals again. And it did. She finished her second dinner and made a decent first pass on breakfast. But all that fat in the A/D must have gummed up her works.
Around 6:30 this morning when she would have been thinking about a second pass on breakfast she instead went to the office to bring up a gross food and hairball. And two spits after. Three site cleanup. Quiet hours be damned I’m bringing out the Bissell. I get halfway through the second site before I realize the Bissell itself is having a massive hairball. So I had to pull out its cleaning tool and pull all the hair out of the cleaning heads.
This may be common among cats. But it’s not normal. We’re at hairball/spits every couple of weeks. It will only get worse from here if I remain stubborn. I’m calling up her IM today and getting her reevaluated. Probably means another ultrasound. (Still haven’t finished paying for her cytology last month.) Then she’s probably going back on pred. Neither of us can keep going on like this. Pred worked well for her. And maybe we don’t have to go all the way back up to full dose. Or maybe we do. But she also responded well at lower doses. So maybe we knock this down with an initial high dose and then we don’t spend nearly so long on cruise control and try to get her down to something small and sustainable like a 2.5 mg every other day.
At this point, my fear is that this only gets worse over the next month and jeopardizes that dental appointment we were trying to put first. Getting her back on steroids is probably the single best way to ensure that we don’t have to cancel or reschedule that dental. I don’t want to worry about her bringing up a hairball before, during, or after dental surgery.
The new vet is more willing to entertain holistic approaches. Old vet believes Betty’s current struggles are likely gut related as she said she sees cats all day every day with terrible teeth that just keep eating through the pain. I don’t like that answer and told her so. She said she would certainly be willing to write her a Rx for bupe. But I’ve decided that I need to clear the signal channels first. Too many changes in the air. Let’s rewind all the changes first. And then if we’re still stuck, the bupe Rx is already approved and waiting for me to say the word.
Awww, I'm sorry for you about that. It's in my genes to love, crave and need tortillas, tortillas chips, corn, all that, plus the hottest salsas I can get. So far, so good on that. But I've had food poisoning from other stuff a fair amount of times and so I can empathize with those who get grief from their food. I think I must have set some kind of record for the number of times puked on one tin of questionable apricots my mom once bought me from a 99c store. It didn't look compromised. But OH. I thought I was gonna have to get someone to put my whole digestive tract back in. It was something like 67 times. 
formation. 
And yet Happy Jackal “Hellfire” salsa is just that good that when I run out of chips, I’ll spoon it up with fingers until there’s an empty tub. 
Yeah, there are all kinds of freeze-dried one-ingredient treats available. Lots to choose from.
Anyway,tortilla chips are corn and in my family, corn is sacred. Salsa? Tomatoes, peppers and onions. Good vegetables. (Well, okay, tomatoes are fruits. So fruits AND vegetables. Eat 5 a day. At least.) Kaki no tane are rice. I like the ones that come with peanuts. So, protein, too. It's not like we're binging on ice cream or candy, after all. Same with the Greenies. My MO is always to eat really well, but to give myself a tiny bit of leeway when it comes to "treats." *Well, okay, so it's not a tiny bit. 
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She took her second pass at the usual time (just before I wake for my own breakfast.). Her breakfast is already in the books and mine is on the stove. Chips and salsa. 
