7/7 Kasha AMPS 149 PMPS 160, 77 @ +2!!! 62 @ +3

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Ate 2 Tbsp Wellness Turkey Salmon for breakfast. I got up again to give one or 2 tsp Wellness chicken as a snack at around +9... Shot about 10 min late this morning because I somehow missed my first alarm and woke up for the 2nd one. Very sleepy (me, not Kasha). She's lying in one of her boxes - the big one. I took the special orthopedic air mattress bed out of Blue's cage and put it in this box (fits perfectly). She doesn't get to sink down in the box anymore, cuz the bed is thicker/higher and firmer than the soft materials that were in the box... but she doesn't seem to mind. It's a little wobbly to walk on (imagine walking on an air mattress that can't be filled up completely because when you blow the air into it, a bunch escapes before you seal it and then your bean says words that aren't very nice).

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Trying some Wellness last night and today. Blue is NOT very impressed with the change - it's what they used to eat all the time, but he really likes the FF. I like the Wellness for various reasons, one being that it never seems to bump up Kasha's BG. Seems to keep it more steady than other foods we've tried. At least, that was my impression a couple months back before we switched to FF.

I'll probably leave out a bowl of FF too today. They can have options.

Yesterday
 
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Aww, Kasha looks so comfy; she is a beauty. Speaking of Wellness, I have five large cans on the floor, unopened and not sure if I should try one again. My kitty did not care for it either. They're on the floor, as I'm arranging her food for the sitter. Her AMPS is nice this morning.
 
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One thing I find about the Wellness is that the texture and look of the food is better in the large cans than in the small. You get more gravy-type stuff, moisture in the big cans and the kitties seemed to like it better. But, now that Big Cat is gone, I wasn't sure that Kasha and Blue would finish off a big can of it themselves - so I'm feeding the smaller cans and they really just don't look or feel as appetizing when I'm spooning it out. Too paste-like. I might try the large cans again, since 2 cans of FF seem to disappear while I'm at work, which should mean that a full can of Wellness should be gone as well. You never know.
 
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That is the same way I felt about the texture of the Wellness, no broth like substance, and Maggie seemed like she kept licking her teeth trying to clean them. She's eating Sophisticat Chopped Grill right now, and it has lots of moisture, as I can hear her slurping, real ladylike, lol!
 
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Have you tried mixing the Wellness with something else? My two seem to only like the chicken...and the chicken w/herring.
I prefer the ingredients of Evo95% to what is in the Wellness ones so I usually mix them together.
That's a cute picture! Thanks for sharing that with us! Hope you all have a good day!
 
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Love the pic of Kasha and hope they come around with the wellness Do Lou is not too big on wellness either but he will sometimes eat the turkey and salmon flavor hope your day is a good one :mrgreen:
 
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Every time I try to mix cat foods, they look at me like it's the most disgusting thing ever - and how do I know? I'm not going to taste it! I don't know if Wellness chicken mixes well with FF beef (or whatever)! They used to love the turkey and salmon Wellness - I only fed chicken, turkey and salmon or turkey flavors.

They ate EVO for a while, but then turned up their little noses at it long before Kasha was ever dx'd with FD... I can try to rotate it in for variety, but I just hate throwing out the food they don't eat.

At least Kasha ate the Wellness this morning and at her +9 a few hours earlier. Blue also had to have some Wellness at +9, just to make sure I got to stay awake a little longer in the middle of the night. This morning, Blue nibbled at some Wellness, walked away and slept - then mysteriously woke up the moment I put down a bowl of FF.

Eventually, only one variety will be left and they will eat that.
 
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What a gorgeous kitty Kasha is.
I have picky eaters who go off one flavour and then one brand, its always a mystery trying to find what they'll eat.
 
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Re: 7/7 Kasha AMPS 149 Found good price on One touch strips!

Wow, that's a pretty good deal on the strips at Amazon! I was on their site the other day and they were $26.99 for 50.

Regarding your food problem - my Emma is pretty picky too. It took me a LOONNNGG time to get her off the dry EVO kitty crack and onto wet food. Right now she eats Wellness, EVO, and a very ocassional Merrick B.G. can. Every so often, I'll think I'm feeding her one of her favorites, and she'll turn up her nose at it. But I can almost always get her to eat it if I mix in a little fancy feast savory salmon, or another really smelly fish one. She used to really like the Merrick B.G. chicken and turkey, and now won't eat it at all unless I mix it with something else. And because of her kidneys, I always add water to everything. I think she likes the gravy. I've also tried adding some salmon oil, and that worked for a while. I hate wasting food too, so I'll try everything before I give up! It's too expensive to waste!
 
Re: 7/7 Kasha AMPS 149 Found good price on One touch strips!

Yeah, while I was posting about the great price on Amazon - which was 24.25 for 50 strips, the price fell by .25 to $24 and I had to edit my post! Then I gave in and ordered a couple boxes... Amazon has such great shipping - we have a Prime membership and often the 2 day shipping is really one-day shipping so I could have these strips as early as tomorrow!
 
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Well, she ate approx 1 Tbsp Wellness turkey (from the large can, which I think has superior texture) for dinner. Then she left her bowl and went over to eat from Blue's bowl (which he basically rejected after nibbling a bit - because it's not FF, which I'll serve up for him a little later). She ate for a little bit from his bowl, so not sure how much she ate, but as long as it was over 1 Tbsp, that's ok.

Some sneezes again while eating - maybe a fit of 3 sneezes? There are long stretches w/o sneezes (so far she hasn't sneezed when she's sleeping next to me in bed), but then these little fits. I'm hoping they are getting fewer and further between... but it's hard to say. She's also getting her face in the bowl to the point that she gets food in her nose, which doesn't help.

The Tall Ships arrived in Cleveland today - we watched them come in from our windows at work... Pretty cool perspective from up above.

Well - have to water the plants - I officially now have too many cucumbers and I'm starting to hand them out at work!
 
Re: 7/7 Kasha AMPS 149 PMPS 160 Good price - One touch strips!

aren't the Tall Ships cool? I enjoyed watching them.

Great PMPS for Kasha
 
Re: 7/7 Kasha AMPS 149 PMPS 160, 77 @ +2!!!

Ok - so I went out to water... thought about going for a walk, but since I'm cranky, decided to get a malt first and take a drive. Then I might think about a walk.

Got home and Kasha got up and started eating the remains of dinner... First clue. Eating old, icky dinner? Then she meowed at me - 2nd clue. I imagine it translated to "Test me!". I told her I'd wait 5 minutes and get her +2... So, she ate a little more, came over to me for some pets and then went up the steps to the papasan chair. I got out the test kit - rubbed her cold little ear till she purred and then tested her. 77. 77? 77!!! At +2? I wasn't even going to test +2 today because lately nothing has been happening at +2! Jeez...

Well, she just ate a bunch of Wellness. I'm going to check again in about 20 min or so and if she's dropping, I'll get out some slightly higher carb stuff. I don't want to bounce her up too fast... But I don't really feel like we should go for a dosecrease tonight either. So, I'll monitor and see if i can't get her to maintain some decent numbers. She might bounce after this drop anyway - it's hard to predict with her whether it will be a definite bounce or a "maybe that's a bounce" bouncette (as Sienne called it).
 
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WOuldn't it be nice if she surfed the evening away for you? I hope she does. Love the picture.
 
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Great photo of Kasha in her box!

What lovely numbers for Kasha today. I'm hoping she going to jump on her surf board.
 
Well, she surfed for about 20 minutes, if that counts... then she dropped down to 60 by +2.6... so I got out the FF elegant medleys "9%" and mixed a little bit of it with the Wellness. She ate some of that... then jumped down and was eating some more Wellness. She suddenly started this sniffing - her head was up in the air and she was sniffing at something I couldn't smell... It got to the point that I got kind of nervous, she was sniffing so much I thought something might be wrong - until I realized that the rest of the can of FF elegant medleys was on top of the entertainment center and that's what she could smell! So I gave her a tiny little spoonful off those evil medleys in the Wellness and she attacked. Now we'll see how much that bumps her up.
 
Hey!
What fun visiting your condo today. So much to see and read about! Tall ships? What are tall ships? And the pic of Kasha, SOOOOOOO CUTE! And just lookie at thos numbers, YEE HAW!
 
The Tall Ships are these tall ships (LOL) that look like something out of Pirates of the Caribbean. They tour around (Iorwen just saw them in Toronto over the weekend), you can go look at them, pay to ride on them... Not sure what else. I've seen them before a few years ago - they are very cool looking and they shoot off cannons and stuff... It's also pretty cool that I can see them out of the window by my desk too - in air conditioning!

Kasha's back up to the blues at +5...
 
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