What did she say when you told her that Mazy is 80% raw and hadn't thrown up in over 2 weeks?
Nothing. She just marked it on the chart. She was very supportive when I started raw feeding, but has back tracked on her support. I think it's because she gets that dose of brain washing at her conference every year, and then, sadly, Mazy's winter appointment seems to coincide with seeing her right after.
Big Pet Food knows what they are doing, at those conferences. It reminds me of the 6 hours safety driving courses you can take to reduce your collision insurance on your car. In my state, 3 years is the duration of the discount, then you have to take the course again. I guess the state has decided that that kind of learning (there is a big focus on accident prevention of course) lasts three years.
For vets, they get their dose every year. Of course they also get it periodically if they take time to talk to the vendors when they come in to the clinic, but it's the conferences, where the PFI does it's follow up work from the indoctrination at vet school.
Anyway my vet DID ask me about the blood tests I had talked about in December, the EPI and cortisol levels, but I told her I was going to wait on that, considering the improvements going 80% raw.
Mazy cat is doing incredibly well. I was afraid with raw being her bed time meal a 10 hour fast would be too long, but she had that 10 hours overnight and she had no trouble this morning. I fed her just a small amount to start, .13 oz rad cat and didn't put the pancreas or s.boulardii in it.
She ate that and then told me to hurry up she had to pee. So I followed her down and she had her pee then I saw her hesitate so I picked her up from one litter box and placed her in the one she likes to poop in and she had a poop too. It was a big smelly poop, what I would call a stress/vaccination poop.
The key here is the 10 hour fast I think. If she'd only gone 8 hours between meals, she may not have been ready to pass that poop. Her motility is just that slow. And with that poop still sitting in there, she may have been more likely to puke after eating.All is still well, of course I waited 15 minutes after that poop before feeding again, but she has kept all her breakfast down. Mazy cat can now eat .47 oz of Rad Cat at a time. Any more than that and she leaves it.
Last night she ate her supper Rad Cat meal in 3 servings and
in one half hour. That is 1.15 oz of food, in one half hour. Without puking, or even acting like she had a tummy ache.
This has made my life much easier.
Huge. Should have listened to you ages ago about increasing the Rad Cat but I just wasn't ready. Of course now I'm not ready to give up that last one ounce of canned she is getting daily. The new routine has become automatic now, finally.