Parenting-Furkids

8 days later Queen Eva is now up to 6 pounds 12 ounces! So a 2 ounce gain in 8 days. I've got her on 5 to 5 1/2 ounces of food a day, some raw, mostly the Orgainx canned. I add an average (total for the day) of 1.5 fluid ounces of water to her meals every day. I haven't attempted any new foods yet. I'm still afraid to rock the boat, and I have until September, so maybe I'll wait a few more months before starting any transitions.

I would like her to be up to 6 pounds 14 ounces, and then I will start reducing her intake a little. I don't like her to go over 7 pounds, and she seems to move easier if I keep her just under.

She's still not on anything for her arthritis. Her check up is this week, Thursday morning.

As long as I don't mess with anything, she still hunkers down and eats what's in front of her, though I notice, since I'd reduced the prednisolone to 0.1 ml (every other day) per vet instructions she is not always eating with the same intentness. She sometimes walks away from the dish halfway through now, and expects me to pick it up and bring it to wherever she goes next. That's old behavior, and I never thought it might be from digestive upset, but now having seen her eat everything all at once for a month, I'm starting to wonder.

I've been resorting to incentives again, when she does that.

 I've started using the Vets-Best fiber supplement. Just the tiniest dusting to see how she takes to it. I'm not seeing any indication of crouching from cramping after, at the minuscule amounts. And she likes it. Thing is, when I go back to mostly raw, she is going to need the fiber supplement. So I'm making sure, before she really needs it, that it won't bother her.

She had a nail trim today too, along with the weigh in. That's what happens when she gives me a pee and poop first thing in the morning lol. I never do a nail trim unless I know she has an empty bladder, since that time, years ago, the poor little thing released her bladder all over me and herself, while I had her wrapped in the towel to trim her nails.

It was years ago and I was far more traumatized by it than she was. She always screams the house down when I wrap her for nail trims, and that time I did notice she was screaming louder than ever and wriggling more but I didn't realize it was because she had to pee, until she did.

Just don't want to rock the boat. I did not give her the cosequin today and she is back to her usual appetite.

3 days back on the cosequin and she's right back to picking at her food and not wanting to eat, needing coaxing. I don't care what the vet thinks, the cosequin is bothering her in some way and I have stopped it again.

I guess I will have to bite the bullet and try the green lipped mussel. I still have the Super Snouts but will have to check the dates on it. Vet isn't opposed to GLM, but she is opposed to the brand I use. When Mazy cat was on it she wanted me to use some brand that was full of crap along with the actual GLM.

Arthritis pain treatments I will discuss with the vet next week:

Solensia
Adequan
cold laser therapy

Anything else I might not have thought of?

 

No worries, thanks for the update!  Sorry about the Organix, but at least the vet is on board with your treatment plan.

Take care and get some rest this weekend!