1/4 Kit AMPS 209, +1 167, +2 150, +4 87, +6 118, PMPS 205, +1 202, +2 136, +5 105

Wow, nice cycle so far, Alicia. What are you feeding at +1? Hope it slows down the radical drops and bounces. We have them too many times. I keep getting advice to only feed higher carbs if under 50 or so on a handheld. I'm so confused by all of this :banghead:
Safe surfing there, Kit. Have a nice day, Alicia :bighug::bighug:
 
Staci & Ivy said:
Wow, nice cycle so far, Alicia. What are you feeding at +1? Hope it slows down the radical drops and bounces. We have them too many times. I keep getting advice to only feed higher carbs if under 50 or so on a handheld. I'm so confused by all of this :banghead:
Safe surfing there, Kit. Have a nice day, Alicia :bighug::bighug:
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I'm sort of playing with a couple different percentages, and will adjust as, hopefully, her numbers get back to where she was pre UTI. At the moment, I'm feeding 3% at preshot, and 9% at +1 and sometimes +2 if she's starting pretty high. I swap to 5-6% if she seems to be leveling down okay at +2 or 3. And when she hits greens (or seems to have leveled off) I switch back to 3%. At least, that's what I'm doing at the moment. She would prefer a diet of freeze dried salmon, chicken, and sirloin only. But this is why I'm in charge of her feeding, and not her.
I know it's confusing, I've been lurking and following (I'm back at work and my brain is struggling to get back into work mode because hello again stress). I think most folks are feeding lower carbs than you do, since you're regularly feed more like 6%, right? So 9 and 12% feel huge if you're regularly feeding 1-3%. I think you're working with a raw diet, which I have zero experience with, but the way I've been looking at it is give just enough higher to sort of curb the drop, not stop it. And because I'm playing with pates or easily smooshable foods (again, zero idea of what the consistency of the food you're working with is like), I can sort of mix and match percentages to get a different on (at least that's how my brain sees it). Like, I still want to get to lower numbers, I just want it to be a bit slower. And the higher carb stuff takes longer to work through the system (in theory, which cats love to negate what should be a thing). And some days it works, and some days she still dives right down or takes those carbs and runs.
When I was talking to Angela about it, she had asked me how long I had done the previous experiment with food, and I thought 2 weeks was a pretty long time, and she said sometimes it can take a month or more to see the actual results (I am not patient enough for all of this, but I'm trying!).
I don't know if any of that helped, but I see you doing what you can with a fractious cat, and I know you're trying your best. And really what else can we do? :bighug::bighug:
 
Mikanmama said:
Hi Alicia,
Nice looking cycle!
Hope she continues to coast nicely! :bighug:
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Thanks! I'm trying to be patient because I really want those good good greens, but I would like them to not come with that dang bounce into pinks that happens. I'm hoping I'm slowing her roll enough today that if we bounce it's just into yellows. But if she goes pink, I'll struggle into those patience pants and know we'll get there. (I had to pause my comment response for a couple of minutes because I was being yelled from from the bedroom. Why was I being yelled at, you might ask? Because she needed me to watch her climb the pet stairs onto the bed and give her a couple of pets. No more than a couple though, now leave me alone, mom, gosh, you're smothering me.)
 
I was going through my box of MC and HC foods to pull out a MC to mix with my 6% to create my 9%, and as I was sorting through them, I saw some fancy feast turkey pate that I had labeled as 12% carbs. I said to myself, self - that doesn't seem right. I think what happened is I meant to grab just the grilled turkey (there are a couple of cans of that in the box) and maybe also grabbed the pate by mistake? Or I grabbed it and meant to add it to the rotation to see if she decided she liked turkey. I'm uncertain if I mindlessly grabbed a pate earlier in the week when I was pulling something to create my 9%, but I'm glad to have caught it now. And the bonus, I fed it for her preshot dinner, and she ate it better than anything else lately. So huzzah, another kind to add to the rotation! But oof, if I hadn't caught that and she had gone low and I was trying to get her up with a MC but inadvertently fed a 2% food instead? Man, I would freak out on myself.
 
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