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He's turning into a finicky eater, the big dumb floof. He's seemingly growing tired of his Gravy Lovers gushy fud, eating only the gravy off the top of the many meaty bits (which, frankly, is fine since that's where all the benefiber and probiotics live), so I decided to go out on a limb and try Friskies gushy fud "with sauce and gravy" type foods. Tried one can of ocean whitefish in sauce, which barely had any sauce whatsoever; I did manage to mix in the supplements and he did eat the gravy off the meaty bits, but very few meaty bits. Sigh. Damned cat--at least he's still eating a goodly amount of kibble so he won't completely waste away...
Downloads have been a bit dicey as of late; yesterday he took his time again and waited just over 24 hours to give me some litter box love. It was A Good One, though, so that was a good thing to see. It's just frustrating that I'm giving so much medication/supplements to get him to go and he's barely producing. I know, I know--Dr. M says it can take a few to several weeks for things to right themselves, but...yeah, mama's getting antsy.
His personality/affect is steadily coming back still, which is also nice to see. He's been a bit more feisty than we'd like to see as a result of the not-so-positive side effects of the Mirtazepine, but he still needs that for the appetite boost, so we'll keep giving it to him every 96 hours. His feistyness manifests itself in wanting to argue and promote fisticuffs with his other "sibling" cats, which is maddening to say the least. We've had to keep the water squirt bottle handy to break up the squabbles.
He's also picked up a new, rather annoying habit--kitchen counter surfing. He's up on the counters virtually every damned night, probably looking for food scraps which aren't there. Ra used to do that a lot throughout his life, so we think Lars learned that habit from Ra. It would be fine if our counters were clear of random stuff, but we get lazy and stash our recyclable cans and bottles on the one counter throughout the week rather than just bring in the recycling bin and put them outside, so when dumbass jumps up onto the counter, something inevitably falls off same, clattering to the floor. That's our bad, of course, so we should work on clearing our counters.
So yeah, about the same, really. Wish there was something more definitively positive to report...
Downloads have been a bit dicey as of late; yesterday he took his time again and waited just over 24 hours to give me some litter box love. It was A Good One, though, so that was a good thing to see. It's just frustrating that I'm giving so much medication/supplements to get him to go and he's barely producing. I know, I know--Dr. M says it can take a few to several weeks for things to right themselves, but...yeah, mama's getting antsy.
His personality/affect is steadily coming back still, which is also nice to see. He's been a bit more feisty than we'd like to see as a result of the not-so-positive side effects of the Mirtazepine, but he still needs that for the appetite boost, so we'll keep giving it to him every 96 hours. His feistyness manifests itself in wanting to argue and promote fisticuffs with his other "sibling" cats, which is maddening to say the least. We've had to keep the water squirt bottle handy to break up the squabbles.
He's also picked up a new, rather annoying habit--kitchen counter surfing. He's up on the counters virtually every damned night, probably looking for food scraps which aren't there. Ra used to do that a lot throughout his life, so we think Lars learned that habit from Ra. It would be fine if our counters were clear of random stuff, but we get lazy and stash our recyclable cans and bottles on the one counter throughout the week rather than just bring in the recycling bin and put them outside, so when dumbass jumps up onto the counter, something inevitably falls off same, clattering to the floor. That's our bad, of course, so we should work on clearing our counters.
So yeah, about the same, really. Wish there was something more definitively positive to report...
