12/31 Duncan, 2:20am 187, AMPS 118 Not OTJ yet

[SaraM2261]

7:30am:
I've not seen Duncan below 150 since the bad food incident.
Assuming he is over 150 at all at AM shot time we will be starting .5u again.
Possibly we will have a better time with the Science Diet out of the house. Just frustrated because it's an entire LARGE bag that we have to get rid of. If it were just up to me we would just toss it in the garbage where it belongs. DH insists on dry food for the other cats at least 50% of the time. So I did get some LC dry EVO for them. DH won't let that bag go though. He goes out of town in 2 weeks and I am tossing that bag out or giving it away. He can be mad if he likes. I'm done with that food!
Duncan have never gone out of the normal range from eating even an entire feeding of that dry EVO. I wouldn't want him on it 100% of the time but an accident wouldn't have this effect.
So, looking for another trial in a few weeks, maybe less. Once we get his pancreas healed from this food accident.
Thanks for all your support. Sad, but still very very hopeful for the future.

9:30am:
pre-shot was 118 which is the first normal number I have seen in over 24 hours. So maybe 36 hours for a food accident to clear for him. I did go ahead and give .25u in case he was going to bounce around again later anyway. It's a shed filler so, let's hope he just stays low now on his own.

 

[Sue and Oliver (GA)]

Sara, the store where you bought the dry food should take it back. Just say the cat won't eat it. (And Duncan won't - you won't let him. :mrgreen: ) The large pet food companies reimburse for any returned food.

 

[MommaOfMuse]

Fingers and paws crossed for Sir Duncan.

Yeah dry food takes awhile to clear the system, which is why even in case of onset of a hypo we try to not grab the dry but rather give small amounts of gravy off high carb wet food. So Duncan has a very good chance of still being OTJ and this is just a minor set back.

As far as your husband and the dry food issue, I wish I could show him the difference in my civies since we switched everyone here over to a low carb/high protein diet. They are all so sleek and shiney and soft. The chunky ones have leaned up, the skinny minis have filled out, and my one guy with aweful food allergies that was living on daily pred just to keep the skin on his face intake now has been pred free since the diet switch except for a few weeks after he went missing for 10 months and then was returned to us. Because while he was missing he was obviously fed dry food or at least ate it from some of the various feral feeding stations that are around my neighborhood. But unfortunately those kind of things just don't translate well in pictures on the internet.

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