Libby and Lucy
Member Since 2009
Happy Caturday!
Jazzy has been on a serious roll lately and I just wanted to brag about her numbers. :mrgreen: Check out her spreadsheet!
I've learned a lot about her patterns this week. For one thing, I have learned that even though she is acro, Jazzy responds to HC better than Lucy ever did! She had a reliable 30 point bump from 1 tbsp of Friskies w/gravy. One time she even got 70 points from 1 tbsp. I can't complain. Actually, scanning back through her spreadsheet, her usual bump from low carb is about 30 points, so I'm thinking the fact that she needed HC this time means that she was really, truly done with that dose. She is so much easier to steer than Lucy was. I'm spoiled!
The other thing I learned, though, is that Jazzy is not one of those cats who knows how to feed her own curve. Lucy used to get up and feed herself when she was getting low, but when Jazzy was in the 40s she was just snoozing as usual. That is one big reason I decided to play it safe with a 0.5 unit reduction instead of an 0.25 unit reduction, even though she hasn't held 0.5 unit reductions in the past. I'm not as comfortable having her surf low when I'm not home if I can't trust her to feed herself. A lot of our cats learn that "skill" over time, so I'm hoping she will catch on.
Please understand that I don't recommend taking 0.5 unit reductions for most cats! When your cat has acromegaly and your dose is 13 units, sometimes you need to make decisions that don't exactly match the protocol. So far it seems to be holding, but this could still be shed action (13 units makes a huge shed) so we'll see what happens in the next couple of days. I'm really thrilled, though!
I hope everybody has a great day! I'll be out until mid-afternoon but I hope I can hit lots of condos later.
Jazzy has been on a serious roll lately and I just wanted to brag about her numbers. :mrgreen: Check out her spreadsheet!
I've learned a lot about her patterns this week. For one thing, I have learned that even though she is acro, Jazzy responds to HC better than Lucy ever did! She had a reliable 30 point bump from 1 tbsp of Friskies w/gravy. One time she even got 70 points from 1 tbsp. I can't complain. Actually, scanning back through her spreadsheet, her usual bump from low carb is about 30 points, so I'm thinking the fact that she needed HC this time means that she was really, truly done with that dose. She is so much easier to steer than Lucy was. I'm spoiled!
The other thing I learned, though, is that Jazzy is not one of those cats who knows how to feed her own curve. Lucy used to get up and feed herself when she was getting low, but when Jazzy was in the 40s she was just snoozing as usual. That is one big reason I decided to play it safe with a 0.5 unit reduction instead of an 0.25 unit reduction, even though she hasn't held 0.5 unit reductions in the past. I'm not as comfortable having her surf low when I'm not home if I can't trust her to feed herself. A lot of our cats learn that "skill" over time, so I'm hoping she will catch on.
Please understand that I don't recommend taking 0.5 unit reductions for most cats! When your cat has acromegaly and your dose is 13 units, sometimes you need to make decisions that don't exactly match the protocol. So far it seems to be holding, but this could still be shed action (13 units makes a huge shed) so we'll see what happens in the next couple of days. I'm really thrilled, though!
I hope everybody has a great day! I'll be out until mid-afternoon but I hope I can hit lots of condos later.
WTG, Jazzy!!! 
nice to know that i'm not the only person who spaces out now and then. thanks for sharing the fun parts! 