That’s what I was thinking. I am going to mix the batch she doesn’t like with the batch she does and hope time and hunger help her overcome her fussies. Maybe I can use the remaining inventory of the good batch to transition her to a new batch.
Worth a try, anyway, right? Just bear in mind that if she turns tail once she may not the next time...CATS, yunno.
I’m watching her on the camera. She seems skeptical. But willing to try a half and half mix of half new can 2024 batch (not a recent batch but I can get more cans of it) and warmed up leftovers from her beloved 2023 batch. I can get perhaps as much as a case of the 2024 cans. Perhaps I can get her transitioned to those first. And then we can work on getting her to eat the 2025 hockey pucks.Worth a try, anyway, right? Just bear in mind that if she turns tail once she may not the next time...CATS, yunno.
I need something that will last us more than four or five days (the extent of my 2023 inventory.) She sure is making it hard to want to try the pred taper.
It’s not that much hotter than it’s been all summer. No. There is definitely a difference in her enjoyment of the batches. And she really doesn’t appreciate me trying to mix the batch she likes with the one she doesn’t. I’m sure if I offered her I/D, she’d plow through the plate. I really need to talk with the specialist again. I can’t taper her pred when she’s not eating so well on the novel diet. And I can’t taper her ondansetron when she’s eating the I/D. And I may be imagining it, but I swear her coat and body condition feel better since we switched to rabbit. But I may have to switch her back to I/D. We’re working through three batches of Rawz rabbit. The cans from 2023 that were leftover from Krista’s stash, she loves those and will never see them again when the four and a half cans I have run out. The 2024 batch she is grudgingly eating when mixed with the 2023. I don’t think she’ll eat the 2024’s on their own. We’re still going to run out of 2023’s. The 2025’s seem like a hard no to her. Maybe I should try one more time tomorrow mixing the 2023 with the 2025. If by some miracle she only needs to be convinced to try the 2025’s, that could solve all our problems. Until 2026 cans come out…Is it hot there today? Perhaps weather is also a factor?
But I don’t have much hope on this one.
She stopped eating the VT ones. I was briefly giving her a single Greenie and a freeze-dried rabbit treat. Then I wanted her off as much chicken as we could manage (she still gets just enough A/D to take her pills), and decided to double up the rabbit treat and abandon the Greenie. After all, she is taking pred and hasn’t brought up a hairball in a month now. I can try her back on a Greenie and see if I can find a fresh bag of those VT chews. I don’t know that that will bring the joy back to her eating though. Worth a try though.
What a conundrum! I know you'd rather go through this yourself than have Betty go through it. For a little cat, food and treats are BIG magic and a big part of their enjoyment and it's really tough seeing them not enjoy that part of their lives. I was going to suggest you look in out-of-the-way places (think black market) for 2023 batches, but even if you do find them, they will ultimately run out and you'll need something else, so "never mind!" on that. Yeah, it sounds like time to branch out and try anything and everything you'll agree to give a go to. Hoping and praying Betty will find some new favorites that are more healthy than the Science Diet stuff.
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Yeah. I completely understand your wanting the best quality diet for Betty to maintain her optimum health; but we both know it's not successful unless there's enjoyment in her life. If she loves the I/D, she should have it, I agree.Last week was 9.68. So she gained an “ounce”. (Not quite since it is 16 oz to a pound. But vets have been confusing me with this rounding for a long time. It’s time I passed the confusion on.
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But she seems both hungry and joyless a lot of the time now. I am going to PetSmart and one of the indies and I will pick up a few choices for her. But I’m prepared to transition her back to I/D. At least she was eating well and seemed happy on the stuff. Maybe we can taper from I/D and eventually get to a level of pred where doc is comfortable with me feeding raw. Aside from still needing ondansetron, she really doesn’t seem all that bad on I/D. Much better than she’s been the last few days on Rawz (and no to Mouser.
and give her a fresh can portion for lunch. I saw her on the camera. She finished it in one go. I’m going to offer more from that can for first dinner. If her eating joy returns, I know it’s not the food but the batch. I am still going to look for an alternative to Rawz, possibly Instinct as much as I don’t like the recipe. I know the doc would either push Z/D or the hydrolyzed hockey puck. I don’t like that recipe one bit. He also mentioned novel protein but didn’t say which prescription food there. I would try the prescription foods if Betty likes them and they treat her right. But Z/D is hydrolyzed chicken liver as the only protein and animal ingredient. The rest is carby nonsense presumably to make that appetizing. I just don’t think Z/D would be an upgrade to I/D.
Welcome to Rawz. I had been away long enough to forget about this. But yes. Krista had batch preferences too. I would end up driving around between three or four different stores looking for the batch code she liked. Betty clearly has batch preferences and we can’t do this. If pred isn’t strong enough to overcome her preference now, this is only going to get worse when we try to taper.
And food definitely does vary. We never had anything this drastic, but I did occasionally get cans that were almost all liquid (the automated system failing at the end or beginning of a batch run? IDK). Things are definitely getting worse, consistency-wise, though, like everything else is, everywhere else.Welcome to Rawz. I had been away long enough to forget about this. But yes. Krista had batch preferences too. I would end up driving around between three or four different stores looking for the batch code she liked. Betty clearly has batch preferences and we can’t do this. If pred isn’t strong enough to overcome her preference now, this is only going to get worse when we try to taper.
but she’s hungry again in two hours.
It's weird how people say that about Chinese food but it's never affected me that way. Guess I'm the weird one.So I gave her some warmed up 2023 and she only ate 4 grams. I offered her Instinct and Nature’s Logic and Rawz rabbit with pumpkin and she didn’t try any of them.
Then I opened her I/D and plated a 20 gram portion. She got a whiff of it and got up from her hangry sad flat cat moping and tore right into the plate. She didn’t stop until it was gone and now she’s yelling at me for more.
So that settles it for me. She has no interest in a diet change. And we can’t taper her pred if she’s not happy with what she’s eating. Well shoot! Maybe I can still get rabbit in the feeders for now. I’m also going to try fridge portions of the I/D with varying degrees of water bath. I mostly want to know if a fridge portion of I/D will hold up in a feeder. But also it would be good from a safety perspective if I didn’t have to leave her food out of the fridge. I’ll cut her pate down by half and let her come back to that in an hour or two when that carby I/D makes her hungry again. It’s like Chinese food. Delicious
