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I'm here for this good boop contentI started talking about her eating and her pooping and then decided I’d leave a Boop! instead.
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*Hope you both feel better soon!*What a difference a day makes!
She was eating very slowly, leaving food on the plates yesterday because of her morning barf.
I am thinking her morning barf was a new enzyme cleaner (Skout's Honor) I was trying. It has a fragrance. Not as bad as the Nature's Miracle but it's there. And apparently she told me she does not approve. So back to Pet Food Express I went last night and picked up a huge bottle of their PFE Exclusive unscented cleaner. I don't like being dependent on PFE exclusive items like this cleaner and her pee pads (the only ones big enough to go under her boxes and provide some coverage up the wall for those blowouts.) But better options I look for and better options I have not found.
On the plus side, no further blowouts from either end yesterday after the morning barf.
Thinking maybe the raw rabbit has something to do with it, I gave her another half ounce this morning. Until she shows me otherwise, I think I'll offset an ounce of her normal diet with lower fat, more digestible homemade raw rabbit portions. Besides, she is so so crazy love adorably pushy for her raw. I really need to video one of these meal preps. She practically tries to steal the food from the baggie, from the spoon, from the plate, if she thinks she has a chance at stealing a bite, she will push her way into the prep, making the cutest trills and meows (mrrrr-eeeow!) like the little fur pig she is.
I wish I could afford it as a full-time food.
I don't have food scores on Sunday because I wasn't feeling great, like circling the sick bowl. But I took medicine, rested, slept a lot, and managed not to get sick after all. In the meantime, everything was so automatic with her feeding and eating on Sunday. I don't have a score yesterday because I don't keep score on barf days. That's her day to eat as she wants in order to sort herself out. Today, I think I'm going to aim for 9 oz. I increased the food amount because she was so hungry all the time. Now I want to reduce some of her daytime food to see if we can stretch out her daytimes so I can get more work hours in the office and also because I think her daytime digestion is maybe not as great as her nighttime digestion since her evening poops are the ones that are still dicey.
She's been done with first breakfast for 20 minutes now. I put out the lights fifteen minutes ago. Time to put this way and steal another hour or two of sleep before second breakfast and when I have to get ready for the office. Maybe next week I'll wake and work from 6am.
My opinion is that each individual is unique and so each individual's reaction to drugs will be slightly, or somewhat, different. My beloved Sun did very well on pred and I didn't see any outward difference in his personality. He had regular injections at the vet for his dry-form FIP. I don't recall the duration but I do seem to remember he wasn't on it all the time, just when the doctor felt there was a need for it. He did say, and I have read, that cats in general react very well to steroids, unlike many humans. This is probably no help to you and Krista, though, because her situation is entirely different.Second breakfast and a good first poop in the books. I come out from the shower to find her stalking her feeders already.
I returned to the office this week. Still only about four hours because of commute time and her eating schedule; more hours made up at home or the tap room. I'm really only comfortable replacing one of her scheduled meals with feeders at the moment. She cleans plates easier than feeders. I forgot today is team meeting so I'll have to go home over lunch to swap out the plates and the feeders and clean any boxes.
And maybe give her a quick play too. I still don't know that she's sleeping well on the pred. But I'm not sure I want to taper just yet. Any idea how long we can stay at the intro dose? (5mg once a day) Waiting on the dr to call back. I'd feel more comfortable with another two weeks if that's not too hard on her. I feel like tapering right now would be detrimental.
Dr called back and said her initial dose is fine for a long time. She says since she is healing but not there yet (especially since she's not gaining weight yet), stick with it, and call her next week. I like the conservative approach. I forgot to ask if we need to recheck any bloodwork and at what intervals. I'll ask her next week.My opinion is that each individual is unique and so each individual's reaction to drugs will be slightly, or somewhat, different. My beloved Sun did very well on pred and I didn't see any outward difference in his personality. He had regular injections at the vet for his dry-form FIP. I don't recall the duration but I do seem to remember he wasn't on it all the time, just when the doctor felt there was a need for it. He did say, and I have read, that cats in general react very well to steroids, unlike many humans. This is probably no help to you and Krista, though, because her situation is entirely different.
Sounds familiar -- and yeah, that's my favorite, too. It's amazing how a cat can hide. You look EVERYWHERE. No cat. And then, as if out of thin air, A CAT!It was nice having lunch with Krista. The driving back and forth was a bit much. I'm glad I came home though. She left some stinky pudding in the box. Like she spilled a milkshake. But at least it was all in a box and not on a wall and/or the floor. It was a one and done. So that's progress, right?
No new puddles or piles on the carpet. Though it's still got some stains from yesterday's barf. I kinda figured it was the cleaner so I decided to give her a day or two before I do a proper pass with her preferred unscented cleaner; yesterday was simply a soapy sponge and that doesn't do a great job. The carpet is pet mess camo anyway. Most days I'm zooming in and playing my second favorite camera game, "new mess, old mess, or just a shadow?" (Favorite obviously is "where's my cat at?")
Hearty Pets in Maryland pulled 21 cans of 5.5 oz rabbit off their retail shelves and filled out the case with rabbit and pumpkin and got my order shipped out today. New Jersey thinks maybe they'll get their order from the distributor on Thursday. I'm not convinced. I ordered two more cases of the 3 oz from Incredible Pets in Sacramento.
I have narrowed down her hiding places and put cameras strategically around the house. She doesn't evade my digital eye very often. It's just a matter of which of the five or six (I have a lone PetCube apart from my D-Link army) cameras she'll be on. Her favorite hiding place is under the bookcase. That's the first place I look if she's not on the point-tilt-zoom camera or the Food camera (the two main front room cameras.) Occasionally I get a notification, "Poopcam detected a motion" but the camera mostly only ever records her leaving. I'm left guessing how it went until I get home. Or she puts something down that shows up on the other cameras.Sounds familiar -- and yeah, that's my favorite, too. It's amazing how a cat can hide. You look EVERYWHERE. No cat. And then, as if out of thin air, A CAT!
I like the conservative approach, too. Less is best, when possible, with drugs.
Such a delicate balance!Her usually very nice morning poop turned into an afternoon melting ice cream. I think there were likely some good formed pieces in there that culminated in milkshake that spilled over the box. No worries. I have pee pads beneath the boxes and up the wall. Cleanup was a stinky breeze. But the poop barfs she left in the front room. That makes me sad. I thought we were getting past the poop barfs. I wonder if she has too much pumpkin in her. I could try backing that off. Anyway, while I had a very captive hungry audience, I decided to give her some dirt ("because dirt don't hurt"). Dirt is what I call her soil-based probiotic from Vitality Science. I should know in 24 hours if that was the wrong thing to do.
My other thought is a possible egg allergy with the Alnutrin and her raw portions doubling recently. I will see if I can pick up a couple fryers (cheaper than last time) and make a batch with my own supplement mix with no egg yolk. I hope the beertenders are ready for more rabbit meat.