Re: 03/02 Rex PMPS 213 +1.5 187 +3 171
It is easier on a healing pancreas to not have to process a large meal at once. Most people either spread the food out in mini meals or let the cat graze. Neko is not a grazer, she's a hoover, so she gets about 1/3 of her meal at shot time, then the rest split into +1, +2, and +3. I put her +1 and +2 in the autofeeder. I probably don't need to split out so many meals. As an acrocat, Neko has a working pancreas, but that's what I started doing before I found out she was an acro. You do want to feed most if not all of the food before nadir. I seem to remember from what you said before, that Rex likes to hoover his food instead of graze.
People who can't be home all day (or stay up all night) will often put out extra food for their cat to snack on when they are getting low. So if you leave in the AM and you think Rex might have an active cycle, you could leave some medium or high carb food in the autofeeder for the times you think he might need it.
An experiment you can try if Rex goes green tomorrow, is to have some food in a bowl in the kitchen. Don't lead him to the bowl, but see if he will recognize that he is going low, and go to the bowl on his own. Then you know that if he is going low while you are gone, he will know to eat to bring his numbers up. This is all theoretical for me, Neko hoovers so I can't leave food out. But she does come running if she hears the autofeeder turn. So a second experiment for you is to see if Rex will head for the kitchen when he hears the autofeeder.
Looking at your schedule, it looks like you will be gone at +2, then back to check in at +6. Take a look at Rex's SS. At what points between +2 and +6 his cycle has he gone low? That's what you should set the AF to open.
Let's see how fast Rex can clear this bounce grumpy_cat :smile:
