Ann & Tess said:
HAPPY 8 MONTHS!!! Mikey!
How great to see him get into the greens. What is the final decision on a petsitter? I think I missed it, I've been out w/ a cold.
This is probably bouncing from those lovely greens! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: His liver just isn't used to good numbers and "panicked."
On the Atkins diet and counting grams of carbs yesterday. Remember that Atkins is for weight loss and Mikey is a growing boy! Plus we don't really know the number of grams of carbs her should have, it has never really been figured that way here. It takes a while to see how they react and you really haven't been at it that long. There are also so many other factors to complicate matters w/ a kitten. I really think Mikey is the youngest we have seen here.
Mikey says, "thank you, thank you!" He even told me that for his birthday, he was planning on making me a happy momma by having NO incidents when I'm gone next week. I'm gonna hold him to that promise! Otherwise, he'll be in big trouble when I come back! grr_red
My brother's snowboarding trip got cut down from a week-long trip to a long-weekend trip. :lol: He expects to be back by Monday night and since I can give Mikey his Monday AM, this works out perfectly! If he's delayed getting back for any reason (like roads closed or weather), our mutual friend who came over again yesterday has said that she doesn't mind helping out at all. So, as of yesterday, we're all covered on that front, finally! :YMSIGH:
Ugh! I hate that word: "bounce" :razz: But, at least this time, his bounce is much more gentle than the extremes I've been seeing in the past. flip_cat
For Atkins, the only reason I mentioned it is because I was trying to figure out how he could be so stagnant on 1.25u for so long and then all of a sudden have a beautiful day. I started looking at the food I'd been feeding him and I noticed that the few days he was persistently pink and yellow, he was on higher carb food (9%). Since Michelangelo is still a kitten and needs twice as many calories for his weight, I was thinking this might also be skewing all the previous calculations done for regular, adult cats that show the carbs have to be under under 10%.
Then, I started thinking that if the amount of carb grams can affect weight gain/weight loss so significantly in humans, then, why wouldn't it do the same to BG levels? And if it did the same to
BG levels in humans, then maybe that might be contributing to Mikey's BG levels more than I realized. So, having no idea what might be comparable in carb levels for cats, I decided to start figuring out exactly how many
grams per day of carbs he's consuming and see if there's any correlation with his BG numbers.
I know it's fairly early in the game and he's still pretty unregulated, not to mention the growth spurts mucking up the works, but I figure I might as well start observing
now and creating hypotheses for future experiments so that when he does stabilize, I'll have a "next step" to try instead of having to go back to the drawing board and start from scratch again.
Dude, I could probably add every single smilie to the end of that sentence because it runs the whole gamut of ludicrousness.