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Thank you...I have both of those on hand and will try the baby food on a spoon later today when she's hungry.I used to feel like I could use the Composure treats too!! It is a stressful time. Try really hard to look at the good signs. She is eating and using the litter box. She is not hiding or refusing to come out. Look for the small things and focus on those. When we humans start to look at the big picture and all that still needs to happen, we get caught up and forget to look at the small steps that have already occurred. I always used to keep in the back of my mind that there would often be one tiny step forward and sometimes 2 steps backwards. Yet the backward steps never lasted long.
If she is food motived focus on using food as rewards. Gerber stage 2 baby food in the glass jars with blue label are kitty crack. I always have the turkey or chicken on hand. Ingredients should only be meat, water and modified food starch. You can take a baby sized spoon and duct tape it to a wand toy or dowel rod or even a stick. Have the pole 2-3 feet. Take a bit of the baby food and slowly reach it out to her on the spoon. Churu is another good one.
ETA: I literally joked with my husband yesterday about needing composure treats for humans.