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?