10/27 Buddy AMPS 230 _+1 266 _+2.3 184 _+3.4 135 _+4.4 114_+6 138_+7.6 145+_+9.5 166_PMPS 169_+2 125

I read somewhere and now can't find, The opinions/rules ect.. about feeding fish variety foods. I am remembering it said not to, or at least not very often.
But I cant remember why. Mercury?

Seeing a pattern now. when buddy's numbers are in the yellow he don't want to eat. but he does like the friskies flaked /w tuna.
 
Sandra And Buddy said:
But I cant remember why. Mercury?
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I think this is the main reason. Especially if you are looking at things like Tuna/salmon, blue fish will generally have a higher heavy metal content than white fish, being as they are higher up the food chain.

I also seem to remember reading somewhere that salmon oil can give kitties tummy problems.
George get's a mostly chicken based diet. But he still gets the occasional Tuna food as a treat, when he appears to be getting bored off his chicken.

Sandra And Buddy said:
Seeing a pattern now. when buddy's numbers are in the yellow he don't want to eat. but he does like the friskies flaked /w tuna.
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So has he got better appy when he is in blue green?
 
I'm wondering whether his not eating because this run of yellows are making him feel a little icky, and he was feeling better in the blues/greens

Or if he's got something else going on that is making him feel icky and also raising his numbers.
Do you think you could check his ketones, iffy appy and numbers a bit raised starts to raise alarm bells for me.
 
Sandra And Buddy said:
He did eat his mid day meals without a problem. 1/4 can at +4 and +8 I don't usually offer him more that than during mid day and he don't usually ask for more.. overnight I gave him 1/8 snack at +6
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That makes me feel better about him. But get a ketone test, just to be safe
 
Gill & George said:
Do you think you could check his ketones, iffy appy and numbers a bit raised starts to raise alarm bells for me.
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That will be difficult. not sure where to start, I have been reading other posts about it but I guess in the back of my mind I didn't think I would need to do it so I never prepared. But my meter does have a Keytone alert on it. (not sure if it is on LOL, will check)

So just wally mart for some strips? Walgrees? I also have to figure out how to catch him.
 
Gill & George said:
Do you think you could check his ketones, iffy appy and numbers a bit raised starts to raise alarm bells for me.
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Are you referring to a ketone meter to check urine or blood? Just curious- as obviously no 'catching' would be involved for the blood ketone meter...
 
Sue and Luci said:
Are you referring to a ketone meter to check urine or blood? Just curious- as obviously no 'catching' would be involved for the blood ketone meter...
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The Diathrive BG meter I have has a ketone alert function in it. I just have to make sure it is on. It is supposed to alert if there are high ketones when you are checking BG. Of course I could be confused. :) I will check into it.
 
Sue and Luci said:
Are you referring to a ketone meter to check urine or blood? Just curious- as obviously no 'catching' would be involved for the blood ketone meter...
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I always used pee sticks, so I would have to 'catch' George in the act.
But if you have a ketone meter that makes it easier.

Whichever method you have.
 
I also used the ketone urine dip sticks - but I set up a separate litter box with plastic pellets in it - and 'closed' her regular one up. She peed on the pellets for me every morning like a good girl...
 
George tends to go for a pee at certain times of the day, usually straight after his Breakfast, so I would follow him scooch a ladle under his bottom and collect some fresh urine that I would then test.
 
Gill & George said:
You really want to get a number for the ketones, as opposed to just an alert.
If he were to have trace ketones it's something that you would monitor and start to take precautions for. If it only alerts you when they actually need medical attention, then thats, less helpful.
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Yes I will be checking soon as I can. He just came in asking for food, he ate 1/8 can, BG is 184
 
Poor Buddy.
If Buddy is feeling stressed it may well affect numbers and appy.

Hope Bruno settles down. I sometimes have to give George a time out, he sometimes gets it in his head that he wants to bully Felix. So I just give him 5 minutes alone time in the kitchen (or just away from other kitties) that seems to solve it for us.
Perhaps Bruno is jealous of the attention Buddy is getting, so giving him some extra loving might help (be careful with the timing though you don't want to reinforce his bad behaviour)

Glad Buddy is eating a bit better. That was quite a steep drop at +2.3, if that was me I would be checking him again at +3.3 (certainly no later than +4.3).

You might want to run a curve today if you are home, make sure he's not going lower than we have seen over the last couple of days, I keep looking at 70 a couple of nights ago at +4 and wondering if he saw significantly lower greens then...?
 
Gill & George said:
I would be checking him again at +3.3
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I had a plan to. I almost just want to check him every hour and see what the heck he is doing.

This is Bruno the bully.

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Sandra And Buddy said:
I almost just want to check him every hour and see what the heck he is doing.
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LOL if you look at our ss in the early days, I was a compulsive tester.
Let the numbers guide you, as long as you are seeing numbers drop, continue the testing, you could base how frequently you test on the rate of change for example.

If you want to test him hourly and he's a compliant kitty, George never complained, he used to come running when I rattled the strips (he's deaf now so that doesn't work:(), he loved his little freeze dried treat he gets with the test.
 
It's increasingly let OKing like this dose isn't doing it for him.

If you were to take his dose up, how are you fixed in terms of monitoring over the next couple of days?
 
Sandra And Buddy said:
Not a problem I am home. I was going to take his dose up to 1.5 before he threw those few greens out. So maybe the plan should be dose increase in the morning?
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I think that's a good plan.
I would get a +11 and amps in the morning if he looked like he was dropping sharply into amps and gave you a low blue amps, bear that in mind.
You can still go ahead with the increase, but you might want to monitor closely (get +1 and +2) and intervene early on with food if he starts dropping early in the cycle.
 
169 at PMPS. I am thinking I will be seeing some greens overnight. Will be up checking several times, and maybe try to get ahead of them so he don't have such a bounce. Maybe won't need a dose increase If we can control the bouncing? I hope so.
 
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