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**Diva: She's completely weaned off the appetite stimulant pill as of a couple of days ago and she's eating fine without it. I still haven't gotten her back on her former food concoction, and she's still not consistent in the output department because of it, but I'm hoping we can strike a balance with just the miralax and benefiber in her food and get her going consistently and with a good physical consistency (I know, TMI) without re-adding the squash. Not that the squash was bad for her (it's actually quite good for the digestive tract) or that it was a hassle for me to mix it with her food, it's just I have a feeling it was changing the taste of her food in a negative way and since food is a big source of enjoyment for her I want her to be able to enjoy it as much as she can...Stupid chronic constipation!
**Jazz: She's still in the process of being weaned off both the prednisone and the appetite stimulant tablet. If things go well, she'll be off both by the end of the coming week. She continues to eat like a champ with the small, frequent feeds of wet I/D. Just tried her on a little bit of K/D kibble (she's eating it now, a very small amount); we'll see if it stays down. If not, back off it she comes.
Still have to check with the vet to see how long to feed Jazz the I/D food. At 7.9% crude protein per can, it's relatively kidney friendly, so I think we're okay. She loves the stuff, and if I can keep her on it as one of her staple foods and maybe get some weight back on her that would be great. She's fine on kibble alone (if we can manage to get her to keep it down again), but she does love her wet foods, and it's all about keeping my old girl happy in her remaining years. Yes, I said years--I hope I'm not in too much denial with her being 17 years old.
She's harfed a few times in the last week, both with good reason. Once because we gave her her vitamin tonic too close to a feeding and the other was a HUGE hairball. Good enough reasons on their own to not worry about adjusting the prednisone taper. The less time she's on the pred the better.
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We're thinking about making a trek to Minnesota sometime soon, so we want the girls to be in good enough shape to be able to board them while we're gone and not worry too much about them while we're gone. This means off any random temporary meds and eating well on their own and not having digestive problems. Yeah, the vet can accomodate weird eating schedules and pill givings and whatnots, but the more care involved the higher the boarding fee. I figure we can take Diva off her current concoction and have them give her enulose for her constipation while she's being boarded so they're not mixing up stuff in her food four times a day and we can get Jazz regulated on slightly larger amounts of food at a feeding so they can leave food in her cage for her to free feed and not worry about her vomiting. We shall see.
All things considered, both girls are doing pretty well again. Almost back to normal. *fingers crossed*
**Jazz: She's still in the process of being weaned off both the prednisone and the appetite stimulant tablet. If things go well, she'll be off both by the end of the coming week. She continues to eat like a champ with the small, frequent feeds of wet I/D. Just tried her on a little bit of K/D kibble (she's eating it now, a very small amount); we'll see if it stays down. If not, back off it she comes.
Still have to check with the vet to see how long to feed Jazz the I/D food. At 7.9% crude protein per can, it's relatively kidney friendly, so I think we're okay. She loves the stuff, and if I can keep her on it as one of her staple foods and maybe get some weight back on her that would be great. She's fine on kibble alone (if we can manage to get her to keep it down again), but she does love her wet foods, and it's all about keeping my old girl happy in her remaining years. Yes, I said years--I hope I'm not in too much denial with her being 17 years old.
She's harfed a few times in the last week, both with good reason. Once because we gave her her vitamin tonic too close to a feeding and the other was a HUGE hairball. Good enough reasons on their own to not worry about adjusting the prednisone taper. The less time she's on the pred the better.
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We're thinking about making a trek to Minnesota sometime soon, so we want the girls to be in good enough shape to be able to board them while we're gone and not worry too much about them while we're gone. This means off any random temporary meds and eating well on their own and not having digestive problems. Yeah, the vet can accomodate weird eating schedules and pill givings and whatnots, but the more care involved the higher the boarding fee. I figure we can take Diva off her current concoction and have them give her enulose for her constipation while she's being boarded so they're not mixing up stuff in her food four times a day and we can get Jazz regulated on slightly larger amounts of food at a feeding so they can leave food in her cage for her to free feed and not worry about her vomiting. We shall see.
All things considered, both girls are doing pretty well again. Almost back to normal. *fingers crossed*