10-19 Ittle AMPS=124 +2=82 +3=83 +4=90 +6=126 +8=159 +10=163 PMPS=129/Moey AMPS=291 +3=217 +6=167

[Briere Fur Mom]

10-18 (Yesterday). Good morning. Ittle and me had an interesting night last night. We shall see what today holds for him. I'm pretty sure I didn't follow the dosing method for Ittle. He should have gotten a reduced dose, last night and this morning, having a lower than normal AMPS/PMPS. I hope I don't get criticized too much
Moey is the same ole' same ole' sassy pants. He'll get his dosecrease tomorrow. Would be nice to have him back at the beach and lagoon.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

I feel like such an idiot! There was a post on the Lantus forum regarding Dr. Elsey's canned formula's carb. content. I went ahead and bought several different formulas based on, what I thought, was different ranges of carbs. I thought I had the HC covered with the beef formula at 15%. Well come to find out that is the dry matter analysis, not as fed. The as fed carb count of the beef formula is 3.77%. Last night I was trying to steer Ittle's curve with food. LOL and thank god everything ended well but, I was using the beef for HC! No wonder there was no affect on Ittle's #s. I finally broke out the friskies salmon with extra gravy at +2.5 today. Gave him 1 tsp...boom he gained 12 points in 1/2 hour. I def have more homework to do re: Dr. Elsey's different canned formulas. I've emailed the company asking for as fed carb. #'s.
I wish I could feed friskies. All of my cats developed yeast infections in their ears when fed friskies. I treated them all with an ear medication containing steroids. 1 month later...Ittle became diabetic! Go figure.

**Update**
Moey AMPS +8=231 PMPS=249

 

[Sonia & Leo]

Ittle sure looks great! Looks like you had a bit of a PJ party!
Good luck with Moey's dosecrease! Who's who in your picture?
Glad everything turned out well with the LC that you thought was HC, don't beat yourself up about it. With so many different flavors and carb contents it's hard to remember what's what. I use a black felt pen to mark the MC and HC cans in case I need them.
Have a great weekend Briere!

 

[Briere Fur Mom]

Ittle sure looks great! Looks like you had a bit of a PJ party!
Good luck with Moey's dosecrease! Who's who in your picture?
Glad everything turned out well with the LC that you thought was HC, don't beat yourself up about it. With so many different flavors and carb contents it's hard to remember what's what. I use a black felt pen to mark the MC and HC cans in case I need them.
Have a great weekend Briere!

Ittle is the fiery red head and Moey is the dark and handsome Thanks for your kind words Sonia!
I've emailed Dr. Elsey's. They are currently batch testing each formula with an independent lab. Once they have the as fed results I'll be able to mark the different formulas properly. Thank goodness for the friskies with extra savory gravy that I have left. I probably would have never figured out I was using LC instead of HC!
I hope you and Leo have a relaxing and pleasant weekend!

 

[Sue and Luci]

Oh Briere...I think that run in the lagoon last night that Ittle had is just beautiful! What perfect numbers...well, okay a little borderlinish for SLGS...but then I love those greens...and the timing was not so great...but personally I think you did great!

Are you not able to feed any Fancy Feast gravy styles to those kids?

Bummer about the yeast infections...and those darn steroids! I know the vets know the risk and that's the first thing they want to pull out...a darn steroid...have you looked into any homeopathic remedies for yeast? I know it's an itchy business...but just wondered if there was something safer than those steroids...not a fan of steroids myself...

Hope Moey gets busy too...

I'm still taking my hat off to you - for managing two babies at once! Cheers!!

 

[Briere Fur Mom]

Oh Briere...I think that run in the lagoon last night that Ittle had is just beautiful! What perfect numbers...well, okay a little borderlinish for SLGS...but then I love those greens...and the timing was not so great...but personally I think you did great!

Thank you Sue. Ittle is trying to show us something. I'm glad I waited on the increase. He's just a late bloomer and does things at his own pace. Those red-heads! I agree the numbers are a bit low for SLGS. However, it's about where I wanted him to end up. I hope no one gets upset that I didn't decrease his dose. With the proper food I could have steered his #'s beautifully, to fit the SLGS. Fortunately, I have the friskies, just in case I need to guide him a bit this evening. The friskies will be a temporary solution until I find something else.

Are you not able to feed any Fancy Feast gravy styles to those kids?

I'm not sure. I have fed it to them in the past, around the same time frame as the friskies. I would need to do a "food trial" on one of our civvies to see how it affects their little earballs!

have you looked into any homeopathic remedies for yeast

I have not. I need to google it. There's probably a ton of info on it.
Moey will get the hang of this dance. He just needs to practice a little harder And if my boys weren't purrfect gentlecats this would be a much harder task. They make it easy except for predicting their cycles!
Have a great evening Sue and Luci!