The reason I asked was to make sure something isn’t causing her appetite decrease not fd related but fortunately it doesn’t appear to be the cause. Perhaps she’s turning into a grazer. Does she like the ff better? Maybe try other flavors. How long since she’s been eating dry food?
Post Edit: I wasn’t really sure yet about the water, because I don’t measure her water daily. I just figure it by how long it takes her to drink the self filling bowl, and it does look like she’s been drinking less water. She WAS drinking approx 5.5 cups every three days so 1.5 to 1.75 Cups/24hrs. It looks like over the past 48 hrs, she drank about 1 cup of water each day.
Yeah, I understand… that’s basically why I’m asking what you guys think, and if there are any other things that I should be looking for because everything seems to still be the same except she’s not eating as much or as hungry, but the questions you’re asking, are the same reasonable questions that I have been going over in my head, so I’m a little puzzled… and her numbers today are actually even a little higher than the past couple days. She’s been off dry food since like at least a month before her diagnosis.
Today I bought enough fancy feast for like six cycles. I got a few different flavors, all low-carb of course.
I gave her flaked trout, which was a big hit with my other cat, and she ate a little bit of it, but not very much. She basically licked the “gravy“ or wet stuff off of it.
I kind of feel like she’s in a transition stage maybe where she doesn’t feel like she’s starving anymore so she’s just eating what she needs and going back to being more picky about her food, because I came into the living room with a pulled pork sandwich, and she smelled it and came and jumped up on the couch. Obviously I couldn’t give her any because it’s got barbecue sauce on it but I’m sure she would’ve ate it if I did, so it seems like she’s just being a food snob now.
Hopefully it’s a sign of improvement in the long run.
@Wendy&Neko said…
“If her weight is stable, I wouldn't worry so much about food intake, at this point. How many calories do you think she's eating per day?”
… Yeah, I kind of feel that way… But you know how it is you’re watching every move now. If I had to guess how many calories she’s eating per day, now that she’s being more picky, if you want to call it that, somewhere around 200 cal. She’s been eating her preshot meals and a little bit of each other meal, along with all of the sauce that comes with the pate meals. So that would be my guess. >200
