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I brought my cat Xia info for a dental cleaning 2.5 weeks ago. She's only 4 years old yet she needed 8th teeth extracted due to tooth resorption. I couldn't believe it! $1500 later I have a semi toothless cat. For the first few days she ate fairly normally probably because she was hopped on painkillers between what they gave her and twice a day pills I gave her in pill pockets. Pro tip roll the the pill pockets in the crushed up treat dust of their favorite treats. I was feeding her wetted down dry food because she's not a wet food eater during this time. But on day 4-5 she started refusing that. So, I offered her dry food hoping for the best since she wasn't eating.
Normally I divide her daily dry food into 3 portions. Morning, after work, and before I go to bed. She usually eats the entire portion in minutes. But, since the extraction she's eating much more slowly. More like grazing and I'm lucky if she finishes the morning portion before the after work portion and so on. Sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn't but it's just note the same. It's not "normal".
I brought her to the vet for her follow up and they said one side of her mouth was healing great and the other side was ok, but acceptable. I explained everything I explained above and she said that's "atypical", but didn't seem concerned.
So, I'm just curious what other people's experiences have been like with something like this? More than 2 weeks after a teeth extraction of this magnitude is your cat still eating "weirdly"? She's eating enough, but it's just different and she's definitely not back to "normal" whereas everything you read online says the should be. Is this just the new normal? Or does it sometimes take longer than 2 weeks to get back to normal?
Normally I divide her daily dry food into 3 portions. Morning, after work, and before I go to bed. She usually eats the entire portion in minutes. But, since the extraction she's eating much more slowly. More like grazing and I'm lucky if she finishes the morning portion before the after work portion and so on. Sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn't but it's just note the same. It's not "normal".
I brought her to the vet for her follow up and they said one side of her mouth was healing great and the other side was ok, but acceptable. I explained everything I explained above and she said that's "atypical", but didn't seem concerned.
So, I'm just curious what other people's experiences have been like with something like this? More than 2 weeks after a teeth extraction of this magnitude is your cat still eating "weirdly"? She's eating enough, but it's just different and she's definitely not back to "normal" whereas everything you read online says the should be. Is this just the new normal? Or does it sometimes take longer than 2 weeks to get back to normal?