Krista's Care

[daftcat75]

A good poop.

And then a pudding blowout.

And a poop barf.

At least she put the pudding in a box without having to be shuffled into poop jail. It's also good that the pudding was one and done and didn't involve multiple boxes. But I'm sad that she lost a breakfast or two in the deal.

I think maybe she got a little too much salmon oil in the last 24 hours. I used some to get her eating yesterday and a little more in her medicine portion this morning.

I shouldn't be so reactive. But here goes:

1. Her lunch has 1/4 oz of rabbit with pumpkin pate. (7 / 33 grams) This is both to lower the fat content of the meal (slightly) as well as get this flavor back in rotation in case we run out of rabbit pate before the back-ordered stock comes in.

2. I will suspend the salmon oil for a day. Again, to lower fat content.

3. I will keep the Celloquent Gold and CBD in her food for another day. I still believe she can benefit from anti-inflammatory agents and this is all I have until we've done the ultrasound and she can begin prednisilone.

Now that she's pooped and mostly through her lunch, I'll set out feeders and let her nibble and digest on the daytime shift. I think she's more of a nighttime fur pig anyway.

 

[daftcat75]

Dr called. B-12 and folate look good. She got out of a B-12 shot this week as Dr says to move her to a monthly schedule.

Pancreas (fPLI) is also good.

Still waiting on the poop CSI (fecal PCR.)

 

[Furballsmom]

In any case, I'm fairly certain the diagnosis will end in some kind of -itis (and hopefully not an -oma) and that administering anti-inflammatory supplements should help.

Pancreas (fPLI) is also good.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you two. My boy also had liver/bile and pancreas trouble last spring.

 

[tarasgirl06]

A good poop.

And then a pudding blowout.

And a poop barf.

At least she put the pudding in a box without having to be shuffled into poop jail. It's also good that the pudding was one and done and didn't involve multiple boxes. But I'm sad that she lost a breakfast or two in the deal.

I think maybe she got a little too much salmon oil in the last 24 hours. I used some to get her eating yesterday and a little more in her medicine portion this morning.

I shouldn't be so reactive. But here goes:

1. Her lunch has 1/4 oz of rabbit with pumpkin pate. (7 / 33 grams) This is both to lower the fat content of the meal (slightly) as well as get this flavor back in rotation in case we run out of rabbit pate before the back-ordered stock comes in.

2. I will suspend the salmon oil for a day. Again, to lower fat content.

3. I will keep the Celloquent Gold and CBD in her food for another day. I still believe she can benefit from anti-inflammatory agents and this is all I have until we've done the ultrasound and she can begin prednisilone.

Now that she's pooped and mostly through her lunch, I'll set out feeders and let her nibble and digest on the daytime shift. I think she's more of a nighttime fur pig anyway.

Yeah, salmon oil is pretty rich.
As for being a nighttime fur pig, *aren't we all?*

 

[daftcat75]

Yeah, salmon oil is pretty rich.
As for being a nighttime fur pig, *aren't we all?*

I'm trying to replicate that Advanced Immune Protocol from Vitality Science without ordering yet another product from them (Vital Pet Lipids.) I know she likes salmon oil and it used to agree with her.

Let's operate on the assumption that she is getting too much fat in her diet. I'll cut her food with the rabbit and pumpkin which didn't slow her one bit on lunch. But, she did have one, maybe two breakfasts to put back into her after her poop barf.

I'm going to pick up two dressed rabbits to thaw tonight, butcher tomorrow, and freeze the leg meat tomorrow overnight. Monday night I will make a batch of Alnutrin with the rabbit livers, hearts, and kidneys. This is going to be an expensive 1 lbs batch of food. Wasteful too. But I think one of the tap-tenders at my regular tap room would take the cuts that Krista can't be bothered with (the rack and the loin) and I can make stock from the rest. If Krista enjoys this and it treats her well, I would be happy to find a more reasonable source of rabbit legs and organs. I just miss how motivated and pleased she was when she was getting a homemade portion. She still shows up on the counter and inspects the prep. But she's not as pushy about the canned as she is with the raw.

And anyway, whatever I'm paying for these two rabbits is significantly less than her vet bills.

 

[tarasgirl06]

I'm trying to replicate that Advanced Immune Protocol from Vitality Science without ordering yet another product from them (Vital Pet Lipids.) I know she likes salmon oil and it used to agree with her.

Let's operate on the assumption that she is getting too much fat in her diet. I'll cut her food with the rabbit and pumpkin which didn't slow her one bit on lunch. But, she did have one, maybe two breakfasts to put back into her after her poop barf.

I'm going to pick up two dressed rabbits to thaw tonight, butcher tomorrow, and freeze the leg meat tomorrow overnight. Monday night I will make a batch of Alnutrin with the rabbit livers, hearts, and kidneys. This is going to be an expensive 1 lbs batch of food. Wasteful too. But I think one of the tap-tenders at my regular tap room would take the cuts that Krista can't be bothered with (the rack and the loin) and I can make stock from the rest. If Krista enjoys this and it treats her well, I would be happy to find a more reasonable source of rabbit legs and organs. I just miss how motivated and pleased she was when she was getting a homemade portion. She still shows up on the counter and inspects the prep. But she's not as pushy about the canned as she is with the raw.

And anyway, whatever I'm paying for these two rabbits is significantly less than her vet bills.

That's how I always look at my cats' diet. Good health can't be priced, and good health means lower (or no) vet bills. When I tell people their supplies cost more than mine, some of them are outraged. But my cats are obligate carnivores and I am not.

 

[daftcat75]

That's how I always look at my cats' diet. Good health can't be priced, and good health means lower (or no) vet bills. When I tell people their supplies cost more than mine, some of them are outraged. But my cats are obligate carnivores and I am not.

When considering the cost of feeding your animals, you can pay less now but you'll pay more later in vet bills.

Whatever her meats and canned food costs is going to be cheaper than her vet bills.

I have some stock from work that they gave me when I joined the company. (Securities, not meat stock. ) Every year, a new portion of that stock vests and becomes available for me to sell. The company is solid and I don't feel like assuming the tax liability before I need to. So I have been holding it as it matures.

I now call this account, "Krista's College Fund." Even with the taxes I pay when I need to cash some out to pay off a credit card full of vet bills, I still come out ahead over having a human offspring.

Now I can say, "we can get you an ultrasound and you can see whatever specialists you need to, but I'm going to take it from your college fund."

 

[tarasgirl06]

When considering the cost of feeding your animals, you can pay less now but you'll pay more later in vet bills.

Whatever her meats and canned food costs is going to be cheaper than her vet bills.

I have some stock from work that they gave me when I joined the company. (Securities, not meat stock. ) Every year, a new portion of that stock vests and becomes available for me to sell. The company is solid and I don't feel like assuming the tax liability before I need to. So I have been holding it as it matures.

I now call this account, "Krista's College Fund." Even with the taxes I pay when I need to cash some out to pay off a credit card full of vet bills, I still come out ahead over having a human offspring.

Now I can say, "we can get you an ultrasound and you can see whatever specialists you need to, but I'm going to take it from your college fund."

Excellent all the way around. May I say, "Great minds think alike"? That applies to our diets, too.

 

[daftcat75]

$75 for 7 lbs of dressed rabbit. Not sure how much leg meat we’ll get. Still multiples less than her ultrasound on Wednesday. I’ll defrost the rabbits in the fridge tonight. Tomorrow I butcher them. Making food is a multi-day affair. I might not get to grind and mix until Monday.

That’s alright though. Looking at her spotless first dinner plate, I think we have a winning texture of 1/2 5.5 oz can plus 1 3 oz can mixed together without needing the stick blender. There’s also 1/4 oz rabbit and pumpkin pate. 3 drops of CBD. I “chickened” out on putting the Celloquent Gold in this meal. I’d rather try to rewind to a little pale poop vs risk a repeat blowout.

 

[daftcat75]

Cow pie!



that she’s one and done.

I sort of expected this since she had a morning dose of salmon oil too.

She’s thirsty though. I really like that she drinks from my glass so I know when she’s thirsty and I know that she’s drinking.

I think there’s a small chance she still might barf before morning. Although she’s curled in a cat-croissant, she looks like she’s squinting back some discomfort.

Hopefully tomorrow’s lunch poop will be better with the pumpkin portions and the removal of the salmon oil.

 

[daftcat75]

She managed to keep it together last night and clean more plates than I recorded in her food journal.

Final score: somewhere between 7 and 8 oz I’m sure.

She seems in good spirits and good appetite for a cat that is disappearing before my eyes. I am not looking forward to tomorrow’s weigh-in.

 

[daftcat75]

Final score: about a lbs and half of leg meat. So that’s about $50/lb, not counting my time for labor.

If she likes this and it does the trick for her, I’ll look for a source of rabbit legs only. Fortunately the pair left me with several batches worth of liver. But no idea where the hearts went. maybe the folks who dressed the rabbits pulled the hearts with the lungs and intestines. I should be able to find a source for hearts too wherever I get the legs from.

She had a few grams of rabbit sashimi.

The meat and liver go into the freezer to be ground tomorrow. If I don’t freeze the meat before grinding, it will become pink slime in the grinder.

I might make a batch of stock tonight. I’m a little tired from butchering the rabbits. But I just fed the fur goblin and she’s already pooped this afternoon. I’m off cat duty until her next dinner. I’d better see about fitting in my only dinner between the two.

 

[daftcat75]

Pudding poop but 1 and done. There were some formed bits. The color was right. The odor a little offensive but not paint peeling. No barfs. Volume seemed like it would have been appropriate if it wasn’t so loose—if the moisture had been reclaimed in the colon.

One and done and no barfs. That’s progress. We can work on the consistency.

I got her to take a medicine portion with just a Proviable.

 

[daftcat75]

Another 1 and done pudding poop. No barfs. No follow up distress. No carpet bombing attempts. I’d sure like solid poop again. But I still consider this progress.

Today’s weigh-in... I took two readings each of me and me with her. I got four different numbers. The lowest is 6.6 and the highest was 6.9. But she’s feels skinnier than last week. So I’m thinking some of that I weighed was poop. That’s why I track the trend and try not to put much stock in a single number. Besides. We can ask the office to weigh her again on Wednesday before her ultrasound. Their scales should be slightly more accurate.

I didn’t track how much she ate yesterday.

Making her rabbit stock this morning. Instant Pot, high pressure for an hour.

 

[daftcat75]

I made the rabbit stock. I pulled a few pieces of cooked meat off the bone for her. I fed her one of these pieces with a tiny amount of stock. I fed this to her before second breakfast. She ate about half of second breakfast. I have been "seasoning" her canned with powdered Stella and Chewy's Absolutely Rabbit freeze-dried. I think perhaps the cooked meat and the stock, maybe the FD, something pushed her over the edge and she barfed up at least one breakfast. It might have been a simple regurgitation though because she showed up at the plate wanting to eat again. In any case, next time I offer her cooked rabbit or first portion from the food tonight, I will give her an hour or two for it to settle before giving her canned.

She's on the schedule for an ultrasound on Wednesday. They say no food after 10 (or midnight when I explained what a gremlin she can be.) I told them that if I withhold food from 10 or even midnight, she will be having acid barfs by morning. I will feed her a nibble, a spoonful here, and a spoonful there. Enough to keep her stomach settled but not enough to have a stomach full of food before her test. I will also skip her Mirtaz dose on Wednesday.

 

[daftcat75]

She just had a beautiful solid poop. Talk about 1 and done. This was one solid poop pickle.

And now I wait to see if there are any bonuses.

Just because she played a little with me and returned to the food dish doesn’t mean she won’t drop a carpet bomb in 10 minutes. I have to wait for her very predictable retreat under the bookcase before I can breathe easily.

Or I just nuke my dinner and take my chances with Murphy’s pooper. If she’s got more, it will come out the same time as my food does.

Rabbit stock from this morning was a hit! Now we wait to see if that’s going to destabilize the poop. I’m going to wait a day before I make her food. I want to see what the stock does to her poop before adding another variable.

 

[daftcat75]

Poop dance!

I’m doing a poop dance because for the first time in a week, I was able to pick a solid poop from the box and be done with it.

It was such a perfect poop, she didn’t even bother burying it.

“Witness my perfect poop. Witness it!”


She’s looking very proud of herself.

 

[daftcat75]

Bonkers kitty started her feed me song and dance a full hour ahead of her second dinner.


I gave in because I didn't want to endure another hour of her pleading and walking laps across my chest. She even sat down for a belly ride, but gave me the business end.

Maybe this second dinner will buy me more than a couple of hours before she wants her "midnight" meal.

 

[Furballsmom]

Lol

 

[daftcat75]

Another great poop pickle.

And then just when I thought she was done, she went back to the box on her own—good for her!—and left a soft pale pile. While I was cleaning that, I caught her mid-squat on the carpet. So off to poop jail we both went. One more kiss of soft poop. One final unproductive push. No poop pukes so far.

She ate of the feeders and then under the bookcase she went.

Now I watch her on the camera until she lays down or she comes back out.

She still could