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I started cosequin sprinkles the last two days in two of my almost 9 year old cats (littermate sisters). One cat is just over 10# one is 14.8#. The recommended dosage is 2 pills for their weight.
Because my girls are such extremely picky eaters im starting out with one pill.. it’s a lot of powder!
My girls have no issues with mobility, at all! They are showing signs of flinching on their backs. With petting and without. I had a dedicated vet visit with one cat for this and she confirmed the flinch was arthritis. My most active girl who literally kick flips off every surface with crazy 360s, I only just realized after another poster pointed out in her cat, she only sits with her legs straight out. I don’t ever want to see the day she is not doing a back flip off my leg..
Yesterday was day one and I was pleased to see there are with no problems with eating! I gave their probiotics in the evening as to not overload with powder.
Yesterday we didn’t do our normal morning play. I have several tunnels they run thru as they chase a string toy, then eventually chase each other around. It was a cold lazy day and everyone kept to themselves.
Today I decided to mix in the probiotics, no problem, both cats ate their food with no issues!
The twins played for a long time this morning. They were chasing in circles around the kitchen island, exploring more of the house as far as running room vs just the living room. (New house they are still getting used to) I noticed when the larger cat ran back to the living room to run/crouch into her tunnel, she completely fell. Seemed like she tripped forward and fell towards her face. Kind of like when they snag a nail. (Nails are freshly trimmed) She ended up just sitting there for awhile. I didn’t really think anything of it. I thought maybe she tripped over a ball or a wand and really I had started to get busy and was a bad parent about it.
I’m sitting on the couch now and she just jumped up to her blanket next to me. The same thing just happened. It looks like her front paw gave out and she just fumbled forward. Immediately after there was kind of a stutter in the paw. It shook a couple times as she pulled it out from under her.
To give some medical history on these girls. They do have a currently unsolved (most likely genetic) chronic gastric issues that comes and goes. Sometimes causes diarrhea. She is currently not in a flare as her pancreatic values were all normal on very recent blood work. Just throwing that out there in case food tolerance could be a thing..
I don’t know if she just hurt herself playing or does this sound like a reaction to the cosequin?
I just this morning booked her tooth extraction for about 2 weeks out. I also hesitate to contact the vet regarding this as we had miscommunication about what supplement to get. It took a long time to get a response. I had already made my decision to go with cosequin based off so many helpful comments here before hearing back from her with the recommendation for dasuquin advanced which is only avail from the vet. I already fell like it will be uncomfortable moment after making a big deal that I never heard back from them about it, then I went with a different one…
I am going to take this pretty cautiously and very seriously. I know this is two different things but my late pup of16yrs, had severe arthritis was put on Chloramphenicol for gut bacteria.. this caused neuropathy after less than a week. I didn’t know any better.. forever changed his path and made for some pretty rotten last days. And a guilt that haunts me deeply. While I know that is a much stronger medicine I am more sensitive now when seeing this happen.
Any advice is appreciated.
I started cosequin sprinkles the last two days in two of my almost 9 year old cats (littermate sisters). One cat is just over 10# one is 14.8#. The recommended dosage is 2 pills for their weight.
Because my girls are such extremely picky eaters im starting out with one pill.. it’s a lot of powder!
My girls have no issues with mobility, at all! They are showing signs of flinching on their backs. With petting and without. I had a dedicated vet visit with one cat for this and she confirmed the flinch was arthritis. My most active girl who literally kick flips off every surface with crazy 360s, I only just realized after another poster pointed out in her cat, she only sits with her legs straight out. I don’t ever want to see the day she is not doing a back flip off my leg..
Yesterday was day one and I was pleased to see there are with no problems with eating! I gave their probiotics in the evening as to not overload with powder.
Yesterday we didn’t do our normal morning play. I have several tunnels they run thru as they chase a string toy, then eventually chase each other around. It was a cold lazy day and everyone kept to themselves.
Today I decided to mix in the probiotics, no problem, both cats ate their food with no issues!
The twins played for a long time this morning. They were chasing in circles around the kitchen island, exploring more of the house as far as running room vs just the living room. (New house they are still getting used to) I noticed when the larger cat ran back to the living room to run/crouch into her tunnel, she completely fell. Seemed like she tripped forward and fell towards her face. Kind of like when they snag a nail. (Nails are freshly trimmed) She ended up just sitting there for awhile. I didn’t really think anything of it. I thought maybe she tripped over a ball or a wand and really I had started to get busy and was a bad parent about it.
I’m sitting on the couch now and she just jumped up to her blanket next to me. The same thing just happened. It looks like her front paw gave out and she just fumbled forward. Immediately after there was kind of a stutter in the paw. It shook a couple times as she pulled it out from under her.
To give some medical history on these girls. They do have a currently unsolved (most likely genetic) chronic gastric issues that comes and goes. Sometimes causes diarrhea. She is currently not in a flare as her pancreatic values were all normal on very recent blood work. Just throwing that out there in case food tolerance could be a thing..
I don’t know if she just hurt herself playing or does this sound like a reaction to the cosequin?
I just this morning booked her tooth extraction for about 2 weeks out. I also hesitate to contact the vet regarding this as we had miscommunication about what supplement to get. It took a long time to get a response. I had already made my decision to go with cosequin based off so many helpful comments here before hearing back from her with the recommendation for dasuquin advanced which is only avail from the vet. I already fell like it will be uncomfortable moment after making a big deal that I never heard back from them about it, then I went with a different one…
I am going to take this pretty cautiously and very seriously. I know this is two different things but my late pup of16yrs, had severe arthritis was put on Chloramphenicol for gut bacteria.. this caused neuropathy after less than a week. I didn’t know any better.. forever changed his path and made for some pretty rotten last days. And a guilt that haunts me deeply. While I know that is a much stronger medicine I am more sensitive now when seeing this happen.
Any advice is appreciated.