Amy&TrixieCat
Member Since 2011
Yesterday
Yesterday I bought a couple new foods to try in Trix's rotation, since she is pretty obviously sick of Fancy Feast and Purina One Turkey. I got Halo Spot's Stew Chicken, and Natures Variety Instinct Chicken. I tried Spot's last night...at first it was well-received! This morning....meh. Argh...typical finicky cat! Her appy itself definitely does seem fine, and she herself seems happy and spunky and very Trixie-like, but she is not happy with what I serve.
I do wonder, too, if she is now too psychologically dependant on the assist feeding. I'll keep going with that as long as she needs it, but I remember my old vetty saying they do prefer to try and avoid it because it can cause psychological food issues....as if the pancreatitis and very limited selection of food options we have weren't enough :roll: ! I wish we could try using cypro, but she had such a bad reaction to it in combination with her BP meds....it scares me.
I feel caught between a rock and a hard place...again. I want to see her eating on her own. I know she feels good and wants to eat.....but she won't commit to eating enough off a plate unless I'm holding it, and there are still days that she STILL won't eat enough off a plate whether or not I'm holding it. If I leave a plate out and just let her be with it in her vicinity, chances are very, very slim she'll eat it. Since I'm limited on time because I'm stuck going to work, I have to do the assist feeding thing to get enough calories into her before I leave...I don't have the time for offering a million little plates. I wish we had more food options to choose from...it's so frustrating to be limited, and that she's not thrilled with any of those limited options.
Argh...just feeling the fuds frustration these last few days - probably because staycation is over and I have to go back to work. It'll pass.
Another interesting thing happened last night that leads me to believe that the whole p-titis thing rattled her self-confidence. She was walking past a kitty cube that Petey was hiding in, and he innocently tagged her on the tushy as she passed by. Before the p-titis, she would have hissed at him and given him a piece of her mind, but last night, you could tell it actually scared her that he did this. She's such a sensitive kitty...she seems to have a lot going on, and I hope that time will fully restore her confidence...and maybe with that, her desire to eat on her own.
It's back to work today....already almost seems like staycation never happened. I have to teach...all that talking will be rough with these mouth ulcers, so I'm sure I will be wiped by the end of the day.
Have a great day, LL!
Amy
Yesterday I bought a couple new foods to try in Trix's rotation, since she is pretty obviously sick of Fancy Feast and Purina One Turkey. I got Halo Spot's Stew Chicken, and Natures Variety Instinct Chicken. I tried Spot's last night...at first it was well-received! This morning....meh. Argh...typical finicky cat! Her appy itself definitely does seem fine, and she herself seems happy and spunky and very Trixie-like, but she is not happy with what I serve.
I do wonder, too, if she is now too psychologically dependant on the assist feeding. I'll keep going with that as long as she needs it, but I remember my old vetty saying they do prefer to try and avoid it because it can cause psychological food issues....as if the pancreatitis and very limited selection of food options we have weren't enough :roll: ! I wish we could try using cypro, but she had such a bad reaction to it in combination with her BP meds....it scares me.
I feel caught between a rock and a hard place...again. I want to see her eating on her own. I know she feels good and wants to eat.....but she won't commit to eating enough off a plate unless I'm holding it, and there are still days that she STILL won't eat enough off a plate whether or not I'm holding it. If I leave a plate out and just let her be with it in her vicinity, chances are very, very slim she'll eat it. Since I'm limited on time because I'm stuck going to work, I have to do the assist feeding thing to get enough calories into her before I leave...I don't have the time for offering a million little plates. I wish we had more food options to choose from...it's so frustrating to be limited, and that she's not thrilled with any of those limited options.
Argh...just feeling the fuds frustration these last few days - probably because staycation is over and I have to go back to work. It'll pass.
Another interesting thing happened last night that leads me to believe that the whole p-titis thing rattled her self-confidence. She was walking past a kitty cube that Petey was hiding in, and he innocently tagged her on the tushy as she passed by. Before the p-titis, she would have hissed at him and given him a piece of her mind, but last night, you could tell it actually scared her that he did this. She's such a sensitive kitty...she seems to have a lot going on, and I hope that time will fully restore her confidence...and maybe with that, her desire to eat on her own.
It's back to work today....already almost seems like staycation never happened. I have to teach...all that talking will be rough with these mouth ulcers, so I'm sure I will be wiped by the end of the day.
Have a great day, LL!
Amy
He is almost done with his antibiotics and isn't panting nearly like he was. It probably helps that he is living the life of leisure inside with the kitties.
