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My beautiful three-year-old tuxedo cat, Thirteen, has a chicken allergy. Ingesting even the smallest amount of chicken turns her into an itchy scratchy bloody mess and lands us at the vet because no one can sleep due to her incessant scratching.
She's been raw fed on rabbit for several years now with great success. The problem is that Hare Today has always been my supplier and they've been out of her specific grind for some time. I've tried other sources but Thirteen won't eat it; she sniffs at it, looks at me and then walks away. My Pet Carnivore, Raw Feeding Miami, even those awful imported Chinese rabbits one can buy at the specialty markets--I've tried them all to no avail. She just won't eat them. I've tried the boneless rabbit that HT does have in stock, and she won't eat it either. I took her to the vet several weeks ago for an appetite stimulant and 1.88 mgs of Mirtazapine was prescribed. When that had no effect it was titrated up to 3.75 mgs, and although it had no effect on her inappetence it did give her ataxia and also made her very nervous. It was frightening and I doubt I'll use that drug again. Her heart was pounding!
I've tried to tempt her with baby food (no luck) and canned foods--Halo Turkey & Duck, Instinct, Rawz, Dr. Elsey's, Fancy Feast, Wellness Core, Wellness 95, Petco's Wholehearted, even Friskies, and the only thing was she was remotely interested in was Nutro's Perfect Portions Beef. But she didn't even eat a whole portion. She just licked the juice out of it.
We went back to the vet this morning and she's lost over a pound! My vet was on the verge of suggesting a feeding tube. When we got home I successfully force fed her a mixture of HT's boneless rabbit and my own supplements and she ate it, but now she hates me. She's been under the bed all day. My vet ran a full blood panel and she's in good health. She's had bouts with pancreatitis but there's no sign of that this time. She doesn't like FortiFlora or any of the freeze dried foods, and I'm about out of ideas. HT will have rabbit grinds around the middle of the month, but that's still two weeks away. Last night I even tried bacon grease! I actually cooked some bacon and drizzled the renderings over her food hoping she would eat it.
Does anyone have a magic spell or incantation? I am truly at my wit's end.
She's been raw fed on rabbit for several years now with great success. The problem is that Hare Today has always been my supplier and they've been out of her specific grind for some time. I've tried other sources but Thirteen won't eat it; she sniffs at it, looks at me and then walks away. My Pet Carnivore, Raw Feeding Miami, even those awful imported Chinese rabbits one can buy at the specialty markets--I've tried them all to no avail. She just won't eat them. I've tried the boneless rabbit that HT does have in stock, and she won't eat it either. I took her to the vet several weeks ago for an appetite stimulant and 1.88 mgs of Mirtazapine was prescribed. When that had no effect it was titrated up to 3.75 mgs, and although it had no effect on her inappetence it did give her ataxia and also made her very nervous. It was frightening and I doubt I'll use that drug again. Her heart was pounding!
I've tried to tempt her with baby food (no luck) and canned foods--Halo Turkey & Duck, Instinct, Rawz, Dr. Elsey's, Fancy Feast, Wellness Core, Wellness 95, Petco's Wholehearted, even Friskies, and the only thing was she was remotely interested in was Nutro's Perfect Portions Beef. But she didn't even eat a whole portion. She just licked the juice out of it.
We went back to the vet this morning and she's lost over a pound! My vet was on the verge of suggesting a feeding tube. When we got home I successfully force fed her a mixture of HT's boneless rabbit and my own supplements and she ate it, but now she hates me. She's been under the bed all day. My vet ran a full blood panel and she's in good health. She's had bouts with pancreatitis but there's no sign of that this time. She doesn't like FortiFlora or any of the freeze dried foods, and I'm about out of ideas. HT will have rabbit grinds around the middle of the month, but that's still two weeks away. Last night I even tried bacon grease! I actually cooked some bacon and drizzled the renderings over her food hoping she would eat it.
Does anyone have a magic spell or incantation? I am truly at my wit's end.