Brianna & Xander
Very Active Member
4/2/25
Hey everyone,
Same old, same old for lately. Last night he wasn't interested in his late night snack and stayed upstairs most of the night again. Since he was behind on food, when I woke up around 2 I got up and got him some. He ran down excitedly for that and then stayed in bed the rest of the night. He woke me up around 5 (presumably for food) and I got up and gave him a small amount with some meds in it (it was around +7 and I didn't want to mess up the curve too much). He ate all of that, as well as the next meal. No interest in his PS meal at all. I had thought maybe the ondanestron wore off too quickly so the vet recommended the Cerenia instead, which is what I gave him this morning. Based on him not wanting his PS meal I'd say it probably has about the same action window, which is not enough.
Please excuse the incoming novel, but I do have a theory that maybe it really is the food. I mentioned that one reddit post that was questionable, but doing some more research I found a lot of other people complaining about batches of Fancy Feast across different varieties and flavors that all caused problems, all within the October-December 2026 expiration date. Some also still mention the batch numbers starting with "43." One person even said 2 of their cats were diabetic and kept throwing these up, so they couldn't give insulin and both had to be PTS for DKA.
I'm not on Facebook to verify this but people even mentioned that there were thousands of people making this same complaint in a single Facebook group. I feel like despite that one unreliable post it seems likely that something was up with those cans.
Before this really got started I noticed that Xander seemed to suddenly be throwing up after having the Chopped Grill Feast, so I kinda phased that out. We only had it every other day anyway. All of my cans of this flavor are December 2026. We do feed him the Chicken Feast every single day, and most of those cans were also December 2026 and started with "43." I usually give him chicken at about 5:45 (AM and PM) and then he often doesn't want to eat whatever I give him at his next meal, which would kind of lend more credence to that theory. I'm wondering if maybe he just had so many of whatever that contaminated period of time was that it made him actually sick, and if I stop giving him any from that expiration date at all, maybe he'll start improving. I set aside about 15 cans of various flavors that all have that expiration date and am consciously checking every can I buy now to make sure the expiration date is 2027. I guess we'll see.
Sorry for not responding to most condos yesterday. It was a really rough, busy day filled with bad news (for him and I) and I literally fell asleep at my desk just waiting to be able to give this still way later shot. Wish I could go back to normal time now.
Hey everyone,
Same old, same old for lately. Last night he wasn't interested in his late night snack and stayed upstairs most of the night again. Since he was behind on food, when I woke up around 2 I got up and got him some. He ran down excitedly for that and then stayed in bed the rest of the night. He woke me up around 5 (presumably for food) and I got up and gave him a small amount with some meds in it (it was around +7 and I didn't want to mess up the curve too much). He ate all of that, as well as the next meal. No interest in his PS meal at all. I had thought maybe the ondanestron wore off too quickly so the vet recommended the Cerenia instead, which is what I gave him this morning. Based on him not wanting his PS meal I'd say it probably has about the same action window, which is not enough.
Please excuse the incoming novel, but I do have a theory that maybe it really is the food. I mentioned that one reddit post that was questionable, but doing some more research I found a lot of other people complaining about batches of Fancy Feast across different varieties and flavors that all caused problems, all within the October-December 2026 expiration date. Some also still mention the batch numbers starting with "43." One person even said 2 of their cats were diabetic and kept throwing these up, so they couldn't give insulin and both had to be PTS for DKA.
I'm not on Facebook to verify this but people even mentioned that there were thousands of people making this same complaint in a single Facebook group. I feel like despite that one unreliable post it seems likely that something was up with those cans.Before this really got started I noticed that Xander seemed to suddenly be throwing up after having the Chopped Grill Feast, so I kinda phased that out. We only had it every other day anyway. All of my cans of this flavor are December 2026. We do feed him the Chicken Feast every single day, and most of those cans were also December 2026 and started with "43." I usually give him chicken at about 5:45 (AM and PM) and then he often doesn't want to eat whatever I give him at his next meal, which would kind of lend more credence to that theory. I'm wondering if maybe he just had so many of whatever that contaminated period of time was that it made him actually sick, and if I stop giving him any from that expiration date at all, maybe he'll start improving. I set aside about 15 cans of various flavors that all have that expiration date and am consciously checking every can I buy now to make sure the expiration date is 2027. I guess we'll see.
Sorry for not responding to most condos yesterday. It was a really rough, busy day filled with bad news (for him and I) and I literally fell asleep at my desk just waiting to be able to give this still way later shot. Wish I could go back to normal time now.
Either way, it's been so nice to have my guy back. I hope I can nail down if that's the problem or not.
I want to crochet him one that's a little bit stuffed, like a comforter. Just for some extra padding without the size of a whole cat bed on my desk!
