Sally, yes, my cats tummy’s are made of iron! They’ve been pretty good with change. The hardest change was going from dry food to wet food, specially with Tuni. Cause for 10 yrs at the time of the switch, I gave P&P wet food as a “treat.” Fancy Feast w/gravy that Petunia was especially obsessed with. So going to low carb wet food took some playing around with to find something that Tuni would eat cause it wasn’t her Fancy Feast w/gravy she excepted upon hearing the can being opened by the lid. But, also, because there was always dry food in their bowl, I never really knew her eating habits. 

Food change has been a success so far. Gave them a can of Tastefuls Monday AM, and swapped over to Fancy Feast Gourmet Naturals Monday PM. They love both beef and turkey! Actually Petunia meows like CRAZY when I’m getting their food ready. She will even “run” to her bowl. It really makes me so happy how much she’s enjoying it cause of everything she’s been through the last 3.5 months. Possum loves the food, too. I do like the 3oz cans cause I’ll serves them a can 4 times a day. I never did that for Blue Wilderness cause the food was sooooooo expensive. 24 cans of 3oz was pretty much the same price as the 5.5oz. (Edit: Just realized that FF will be more expensive that BB 😔). I don’t know if the FF has 5.5oz cans, but I might just stick with 3oz. But, what I really wanted to report is Possum hasn’t thrown up since Sunday, and Petunia hasn’t since early hrs of Monday morning! 

I did reach out to Blue Buffalo and they said they haven’t changed their ingredients. They asked me more questions in which I will respond, but I think I am going to do the switch offically. 

Update:

No puking with the exception of Possum yesterday (Thurs) morning puking the clear bile. Took her to the vet. Got Cernia. Vet wants me to check in a week to see how she does on the 4 days on it and then 3 days off of it. She thinks that maybe she has had an indigestion issue her whole life if she’s always been a puker. May eventually do an ultrasound, depending how she does after Cernia and then this food change. I mentioned to her that a month ago I saw a video of a woman learning her cat had 22 hair ties in her stomach. Even the comments of that video showed multiple people experiencing that. I was like, “WHAT?!?!?” Possum loves playing with them and she eats anything … could it be?!?! I could have never imagined cats actually eating hair ties. Vet is like, “oh yeah, they do!” It unlocked a new fear, that’s for sure! And I’ll be honest, if she did have some in her stomach, it would have made the last years make so much more sense! 

The liquid liver supplement came in yesterday. I should have waited until today to give it to her cause it is said it is to be at room temp, and the bottle was cold from the weather outside. I also didn’t realize that it was oil based. I squirted the entire thing in her mouth, and she started to what seemed to be salivating. I freaked out, called the vet, and they said that can happen, especially if the cat doesn’t like the taste. I googled it after I hung up, and yup, salivating can happen. But that is when I also learned it was oil based. So today I’m just gonna squirt a little at a time. Also not sure if that was saliva or if that is the consistency of the oil based med. Also, not sure if it being cold that is created that consistency.

I also asked the vet about Solensia. She said it would not affect her liver calluses at all, that antibodies doesn’t get processed through the liver. 

Yeah I shakes it pretty good, but I’ll even shake it more from here on out! I’m hoping it being at room temperature, it’ll go smoother. The salivating did make me nervous cause I wasn’t sure if she was choking on it. I mean, it was thick. Made me so sad for her cause she’s just been through so much, and now this. I think if the original supplement worked, we would have gotten in its month worth and she would have been retested. But here I am just starting. 

No worries, I am not freaking out about the hair ties. 🙂 Possum is just looking so good, besides her throwing up. Energized, eating good, hydrated. 🙂 And then at the vet, her heart, lungs, lymph nodes checked out great! Thanks for letting me know about the side effect of Cerenia. 

So I tried to do a little at a time this time around. Just over 1/2. I have my mattress in the front room on the floor cause my bedroom has been FREEZING from these negative temps we’ve been having this week.

She was laying on the bed when I put the med in her mouth, and she immediately got up and literally ran off the mattress and to the back of the house, up the ramp and onto the couch. I didn’t know she can go that fast (and her form was perfection!). She once again, saliva. It made me so sad to see. And I did shake the bottle like crazy.

Called the vet and spoke with the vet tech there. She is going to send a message to Tuni’s vet doc who is there tonight to see if she has any suggestions. The vet tech told me that the pharmacy in our town does compounding (they do it for her cat), so I don’t know if that’s an option. 

I’m just so frustrated cause this is #3 and I just want her to get in this dang supplement. 

Wait, WHAT??? It fits? I didn’t think it would! Oh I gotta try it tomorrow. I just got off the phone with the vet and she said we pretty much ran out of options. She is researching a potential diet.  But if this works, I’ll be soooo happy! She did offer to get one that is more concentrated so half the volume. But I don’t wanna spend even more $$. Maybe I will have her prescribe that if we need to continue after I finish this bottle: 

Hopefully what you have is the same thickness as what I have cause it doesn’t seem like it would fit. I’ll find out tomorrow! You are amazing! Thank you!