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Diva's second day on the appetite stimulant pill and she's eating like a champ again. She'll actually eat A/D with her usual turkey food mixed in along with almost a whole feed dose of miralax (only 3/8tsp vs her usual 1/2tsp, but at least that's better than just the 1/4tsp she was tolerating before the appetite stim pill). This is progress. I'll continue to slowly add more turkey to the A/D as the days go by in order to get her back on her regular diet (hopefully!) soon. While her output is less in that department, she's also been eating less, so all things are equal. Since her output has been alright without the baby squash, I might opt to not go back to putting that in her food--one less thing to worry about her rejecting. I'll deal with that as it comes...
I decided to try something a little different on her feeding schedule, too, to see if it would make a difference. I was giving her three daily feedings of the wet food with miralax in it, then a spot of kibble mix around 1800, then a last feed of wet food with miralax after her sub-qs and meds. She's been barely touching the final feed so I thought maybe it would make more sense to put the kibble feed at the end of the day so she'll get her full dosing of miralax for her digestive process and the kibble would be her bonus treat at the end of the day, as she loves her kibbles. It's worth a try, anyway...
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Jazz hasn't vomited since Monday night, so I'd like to start weaning her down off the prednisone tomorrow. The vet said to do a 5mg pill every other day for a week, but the way J was taught by his old vet to wean off was 1/2 pill (2.5mg) every day for a few days, then every other day, then off in about two weeks. The slow wean makes more sense to me, as that's how I do it when I'm on pred for something or another, so that's how we'll do it.
I hope her appetite continues to be strong as we wean her off the pred and eventually the appetite stimulant pill. She really enjoys the I/D wet food, but I would like to get her back on at least a little bit of K/D kibble, which she is so totally craving (she watches Ra's bowl closely when he's eating and she snarfs up any remaining kibbles I don't catch left over in the bowl that's how I can tell), as soon as I'm sure her tummy can handle it. I won't be adding that to her diet until next week sometime to make extra sure everything's on track, and when I do it'll be very small amounts and very slowly. Slow and easy with the changes, that's key. The goal is to minimize stress, which will hopefully mitigate the risk of the vomiting coming back again.
Finally--a quiet day with my girls! As quiet as it can be, at least, with all their food beggins. ;) I hope we're finally turning a corner to the better!
I decided to try something a little different on her feeding schedule, too, to see if it would make a difference. I was giving her three daily feedings of the wet food with miralax in it, then a spot of kibble mix around 1800, then a last feed of wet food with miralax after her sub-qs and meds. She's been barely touching the final feed so I thought maybe it would make more sense to put the kibble feed at the end of the day so she'll get her full dosing of miralax for her digestive process and the kibble would be her bonus treat at the end of the day, as she loves her kibbles. It's worth a try, anyway...
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Jazz hasn't vomited since Monday night, so I'd like to start weaning her down off the prednisone tomorrow. The vet said to do a 5mg pill every other day for a week, but the way J was taught by his old vet to wean off was 1/2 pill (2.5mg) every day for a few days, then every other day, then off in about two weeks. The slow wean makes more sense to me, as that's how I do it when I'm on pred for something or another, so that's how we'll do it.
I hope her appetite continues to be strong as we wean her off the pred and eventually the appetite stimulant pill. She really enjoys the I/D wet food, but I would like to get her back on at least a little bit of K/D kibble, which she is so totally craving (she watches Ra's bowl closely when he's eating and she snarfs up any remaining kibbles I don't catch left over in the bowl that's how I can tell), as soon as I'm sure her tummy can handle it. I won't be adding that to her diet until next week sometime to make extra sure everything's on track, and when I do it'll be very small amounts and very slowly. Slow and easy with the changes, that's key. The goal is to minimize stress, which will hopefully mitigate the risk of the vomiting coming back again.
Finally--a quiet day with my girls! As quiet as it can be, at least, with all their food beggins. ;) I hope we're finally turning a corner to the better!
