Parenting-Furkids

Forgot to mentyion - the Organix is almost depleted.  I bought all those cases to get her through September, but it turns out when a case gets within a month or even 2 months of the best by date she stops eating it. So all I have left are the two cases with best by in September. I donated the rest (6 cases) to a local private rescue, except one case, with a July date, I gave to a friend. $70 a case times 7 lol.

Anyway I've found another New Zealand product to try which I actually like the ingredients better than the Ziwi Peak. We'll see what Queen Eva thinks of it. I'll keep her on the ZWP, which she isn't thrilled with but will eat if left out, as the bedtime meal (it's a small meal) so maybe -fingers crossed- the Feline Naturals will become her lunch time canned, which is a larger meal.  I've increased her raw anyway, she's now half raw half canned, instead of 1/3 raw, 2/3 canned.

Also, the Meat Mates freeze dried I was using for her once a week change up meal appears to have been discontinued, so I've ordered the Feline Naturals freeze dried. Hopefully it will be similar in texture, because she doesn't like the hard pellets (nor do I), or the jerky textured types, only the ones that soften in water.

Good news! Queen Eva's blood work is okay!  her creatinine actually went down from 2.5 to 2.3 and all other numbers are in normal range.  Vet kept talking about diabetes because of the steroids (when I told her I'd seen her at the water bowl) but no sign of it. Unfortunately at her appointment her bladder wasn't full enough to catch a urine sample, so I'd still like to have that done, though every time we've done it before all is normal.

The timing will be tricky, I have to catch her in the morning when I know her bladder is full and run her over there, but without any leave time at work it wold mean skipping my lunch hour if I have to do it that way. I've already had to skip so many lunch hours in order to keep my own doctor appointments and it's exhausting. The lab doesn't pick up on Saturdays, so I don't think I can do it on a Saturday morning, but I didn't think to ask, so I'll check on that. Maybe they have a way to store it that keeps it fresh for Monday.

I actually have not seen her at the water bowl again since those few times that first week, and the week after.

Bad news.  Queen Eva went to the water bowl this morning and drank.  I've never seen her go to the water bowl at all, never looks at it, even if she happens to be nearby when I freshen it and put it down. Until this morning.

She has an appointment next Tuesday morning. Hope I can get her there with a full bladder, so vet can get the urine at the same time.

I forgot to tell about something that happened two weeks ago. We were playing her Tunnel Sliding Game but she slipped and fell on the jump up part of the game. I don't know what happened but she missed the grab onto the Playhouse and landed on her back on the ONE SPOT of the wood floor that isn't covered. (it is covered, now)

I was upset, but she didn't seem to be painful after it, and went on to continue to play, but only with the small curved tunnel**, not the whole Game. It may be she just can't safely play that Game anymore, but I'm not sure. After all, later in the evening she was Thundering Around the House, flinging her body around and up on the stair-step bookcases and who knows what.

Queen Eva has not played that part of the Game since that happened 2 weeks ago, but she has invented a modified version of it! She still gets her run and flop and slide, but we skip the jump.

Also a few weeks ago I put a portion of yoga mat under the rug where this curved scratcher lives, because she's always thumping her body to the floor so hard, I worried the rug itself wasn't enough protection. She supervised the process, and then for two days after would not play with it, but now I think she's discovered it's more comfortable and is playing and thumping her body down and sliding hard,  just as much as ever on it

Yesterday she timed her pee and poop perfectly and I was able to do her monthly nail trim, and get a weight, much to her annoyance lol.

She's down an ounce which is okay I really do like to keep her at 7 lbs, but not much less than that so I've increased her portions just a tiny bit.

She did not hold a grudge after the nail trim and weight, in fact she played the new version of her old sliding game with great vigor for over five minutes!

I've spoken with the vet about the changing formula and they've sent in the new order. There was the usual road blocks, due to the new laws, but I timed it just right, I have just started her most recent refill, so that should last well over until they get done with all the bureaucracy and get the new bottle to us.

The goal is to have the new formula alongside the old for a few days, slowly introducing the new, in place of the old,  to make sure she adjusts okay. Hope the taste is the same. I get the unflavored for her and it, to me, has a sightly bitter taste, which doesn't seem to bother her.  I will taste the new version as well.