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The on-going ever-evolving process of feeding Mazy cat
Middle Child:
Okay. By the end of this week Mazy cat will be completely transitioned to the Rad Cat HPP product. Thankfully I had enough of the old product to be able to do this transition excruciatingly slowly.
But now it's over, it will be all HPP.
So the next step is to get her back on the Cornish hen. I had to stop the CH for a period of time, while transitioning to the HPP, because I needed to use the place where her CH meal was for the HPP meal. Well that and, during all those months I was working overtime and she wasn't getting her fasting times and she was puking almost daily. The CH was just not fitting in to that whole nightmare episode.
Adding the CH back in, again, will have to be done very very slowly. Tiny bits each day until I am sure she's able to handle meals of it again.
Okay. So that's where we are. However, I have been working at changing the amounts fed at certain meal times, because I am STILL not getting to bed early enough. I have got to find a way to get to bed by 9 pm. The problem is, getting enough food into Mazy cat by 9 pm has just not been working out.
Things I have been working on are
1) getting her to be able to eat a larger serving at one time. The result of this so far is that..depending on the meal period, she can now eat .55oz of Rad Cat at one sitting and keep it down. That is HUGE! Also, again depending on the meal period, she can eat .45oz in "chunks" mixed with EZcomplete and water. (see pic for her current chunk size) Again, that is huge. I still break down most of her meals smaller portions, most are still between .25oz and .35oz.
and 2) getting more into her at earlier meals so I am not having to stay up so late to get her full quota of food into her at night.
One of the problems is, the more she eats at one time, if it turns out to be a regurgitation day, the more she brings back up. I'm still struggling with my despair reaction that comes every time she regurgitates. I know this is how it is going to be for her, forever, so why can I not just ACCEPT it and not feel so darn terrible, frustrated and hopeless every time it happens.
Anyway. So I have gradually increased her breakfast meals and lunch meals, by tiny increments, to reduce the size of her bed time meal. The goal is to reduce her bed time meal to about .3 oz. So I can give it to her as one serving at 8:45 with her Vets-Best in it all three cats having their final bed time meal together, and then go to bed. The issue is, from the time I get home from work until I go to bed I am feeding her practically every half hour, to get enough into her for the day.
Right now I've got the bed time meal down to .66 oz. She gets .4oz at 9:00 and the last .26oz with Vet's-best at 9:45. I've got to get another .36 moved to breakfast and lunch.
Yikes, how long have I been rambling?
DeeDee:
--- Quote from: Middle Child on June 12, 2016, 10:01:08 AM ---
Yikes, how long have I been rambling?
--- End quote ---
I don't know how you do it. Really I don't. You have my utmost respect for the way you do SO much for Mazy to keep her as healthy as she is. I know I was running in circles when I had to split up 2 meals into 4 per day to get Vlad back to where he is today. Then it was awful trying to get him back down to 2 with a bedtime snack.
Ramble? Talk away. In case you haven't noticed, sometimes it's how I get everything into my head and work things out for Vlad. Who knows who might learn something that helps their own pets by our "rambling?"
Middle Child:
As it stands now, here are her meals:
5:45 a.m. ( after an 8 hour fast) - .25 oz RC chicken with s.boulardii and a tiny bit of pork pancreas glandular powder to cover the sb taste.
6:15 a.m. - .4 oz RC chicken with a capsule of egg yolk lecithin.
(the other two are not fed at this time)
7:15 a.m. - .55 (!!!!) oz RC turkey with cosequin and d-mannose
(the other two get their breakfast at 7:15. Queen Eva eats .48 oz and Jennie gets 1.1 oz, split in two meals because she insists on 2 meals, it makes her think she is getting more)
1:45 pm (give or take) lunch time - .46 oz RC turkey with vets-best and water split into two servings ten minutes apart
(Queen Eva gets ..67 oz and Jennie gets .4 oz, single servings)
4:45 pm-5:30 pm (depending on when I get home) - .6 oz RC split between 2 servings 10 minutes apart. The first serving (.25oz) contains s.boulardii and a little of the pancreas, the second serving (.35 oz) contains one capsule of egg yolk lecithin
(the other two are not fed at this time)
6:30-7:15 (depending on what time the pre-meal was) - 1.2 oz of muscle meat with EZcomplete. this meal is divided into three portions, the EZcomplete, while using the correct amount is added to only two portions. She likes it, but for some reason will not eat the EZ three servings in a row. So she gets .7 oz with EZ and .5 oz plain
(these meals alternate between Coleman certified organic verified non-GMO project chicken breast and chicken thigh)
Okay so the 1.2 oz is split like this: .7oz of meat has EZ added, mixed with a little water and is split into two serving. The first serving of that .7 oz is .45oz (including EZ and water). The second serving, half hour later is not given all at once (I'm not sure how much is left in oz, but I give her half, make her wait five minutes, then give her the other half)
(the other two are fed their full meals)
All this takes us to 8 pm. - 8:15 pm. If I don't wait a full hour between the second EZ serving and that final .5 oz of chunk meal (plain) it all comes back up.
8:00 (hopefully)-8:15 pm - .5 oz plain chicken breast or thigh split between 2 servings 10 minutes apart.
And then, she needs an hour between that and what should be her final meal of the day. But because the final meal is still too big for one serving with Vets-Best and water added I am having to stay up an additional 45 minutes. She gets the .4 oz RC at 9:00 (hopefully) with her Proviable DC and the final .26 with VB and water at 9:45. (I've tried 9:30, but it's too soon)
I've got to work out a way to get that .36 oz into morning and lunch meals, so all I have left to give her at 9:00 is .3 oz of VB and probiotic, then I can get to bed at a decent time and maybe not be so flipping exhausted all the time.
Middle Child:
When she's back on the Cornish hen I think I'm going to make that meal her 7:15 am breakfast meal. The Cornish hen meal is a modified prey model meal with liver and egg shell calcium. I'll have to move her cosequin to the EYL meal I think. I don't like to mess too much with her Cornish Hen meal because it is her favorite meat.
Middle Child:
--- Quote from: DeeDee on June 12, 2016, 10:16:10 AM ---I don't know how you do it. Really I don't. You have my utmost respect for the way you do SO much for Mazy to keep her as healthy as she is. I know I was running in circles when I had to split up 2 meals into 4 per day to get Vlad back to where he is today. Then it was awful trying to get him back down to 2 with a bedtime snack.
Ramble? Talk away. In case you haven't noticed, sometimes it's how I get everything into my head and work things out for Vlad. Who knows who might learn something that helps their own pets by our "rambling?"
--- End quote ---
Thank you Dee. Really, I just do what needs to be done you know? Each step has evolved over time, it's not like a sudden routine change, it al kind of blends in after a while.
I will not deny that I get very tired and discouraged some times. It IS a lot of work. But I don't see that I have any other choice. Mazy cat's health and well being depend on me.
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