Tara & Ivana (GA)
Member Since 2015
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Ivana is still rocking life at The Falls, go kitty!
Although she's harder to test these days - I guess she's got out of the habit of having her ears fiddled with as much as she used to, and does lots of head flicking and ear flicking these days. Nothing that the smell of treats won't fix though 
Last week's post was a vet visit, and in the few days after that I was liaising with Ivana's vet about some possible things to try to help with the nighttime yowling issue which has been going on for a while (nightlights didn't help). We came up with coconut oil (for cognitive function) and chamomile tea (for relaxation). So now Missy is getting 1/2t of coconut oil daily (started with 1/4t and worked up), and 1/2t of brewed chamomile tea before bed. Guess what, it's working! We started this on Monday (it's now Sunday morning here), and she has only yowled once in that time, which was last night - and I think that's because we went out and didn't get home til 1.30am so her routine was out of kilter. So, it looks like we have a winner, very pleased. Although we are really pushing our luck with the number of things we're mixing into her food these days...
The other news is that on Wednesday Ivana started on Calcitriol. She's not a fan of it, that's for sure, but she's had two doses so far and will get another blood test after two weeks of treatment twice-weekly. The vet suggested mixing it into a small snack-sized amount of food and then giving the rest of the meal an hour later, which we have done. But I might actually try just syringing it into her mouth next tine and see if that's easier so that I don't get the "Are you trying to poison me?" look.
Photo of a spoilt kitty-cat getting breakfast in bed this morning, because it was laced with Calcitriol and she would only eat it if she could lay in the sun at the same time.
Ivana is still rocking life at The Falls, go kitty!
Although she's harder to test these days - I guess she's got out of the habit of having her ears fiddled with as much as she used to, and does lots of head flicking and ear flicking these days. Nothing that the smell of treats won't fix though Last week's post was a vet visit, and in the few days after that I was liaising with Ivana's vet about some possible things to try to help with the nighttime yowling issue which has been going on for a while (nightlights didn't help). We came up with coconut oil (for cognitive function) and chamomile tea (for relaxation). So now Missy is getting 1/2t of coconut oil daily (started with 1/4t and worked up), and 1/2t of brewed chamomile tea before bed. Guess what, it's working! We started this on Monday (it's now Sunday morning here), and she has only yowled once in that time, which was last night - and I think that's because we went out and didn't get home til 1.30am so her routine was out of kilter. So, it looks like we have a winner, very pleased. Although we are really pushing our luck with the number of things we're mixing into her food these days...
The other news is that on Wednesday Ivana started on Calcitriol. She's not a fan of it, that's for sure, but she's had two doses so far and will get another blood test after two weeks of treatment twice-weekly. The vet suggested mixing it into a small snack-sized amount of food and then giving the rest of the meal an hour later, which we have done. But I might actually try just syringing it into her mouth next tine and see if that's easier so that I don't get the "Are you trying to poison me?" look.
Photo of a spoilt kitty-cat getting breakfast in bed this morning, because it was laced with Calcitriol and she would only eat it if she could lay in the sun at the same time.
