CandyH & Catcat
Member Since 2019
usually Catcat ends his post-test mini meal looking for food, meowing at me and swatting at me if I don't put some down -- this stresses both of us
today I put two freezedried sardines and some human-grade turmeric in the regular meal I feed half an hour after test (shoot the insulin while he's eating this); I put out about half again as much as usual -- normally he gets a 5.5 ounce can of Blue Wilderness or equivalent, today I put down about 8 ounces of Friskies pate plus the snapped-apart sardines and a handful of bonito flakes
he actually left a little bit in the bowl, snuggled down on his blanket at the foot of the bed, and just now, 2 hours later, woke up and calmly ate the leftovers, then headed for the litter box
I'll check/test him again in an hour or so (+3), I'm expecting (or at least hoping) to see numbers about the high end of normal, will try to check again at +5 to see what the numbers are, assuming he's coasted through nadir and still within a loud shout of normal -- with the extra food I'm hoping to keep him from troughing out on the low end of normal at nadir
why turmeric? because he has a small abscess on his chin/lower jaw that the vet didn't want to mess with, she thought he might have been rubbing his chin on something, said it looked like "cat acne" -- I've been smearing Neosporin on the raw places, he won't put up with the usual hot wet washcloth which usually encourages these to break open and drain (I'm more familiar with doing this for "stud tail")
today I put two freezedried sardines and some human-grade turmeric in the regular meal I feed half an hour after test (shoot the insulin while he's eating this); I put out about half again as much as usual -- normally he gets a 5.5 ounce can of Blue Wilderness or equivalent, today I put down about 8 ounces of Friskies pate plus the snapped-apart sardines and a handful of bonito flakes
he actually left a little bit in the bowl, snuggled down on his blanket at the foot of the bed, and just now, 2 hours later, woke up and calmly ate the leftovers, then headed for the litter box
I'll check/test him again in an hour or so (+3), I'm expecting (or at least hoping) to see numbers about the high end of normal, will try to check again at +5 to see what the numbers are, assuming he's coasted through nadir and still within a loud shout of normal -- with the extra food I'm hoping to keep him from troughing out on the low end of normal at nadir
why turmeric? because he has a small abscess on his chin/lower jaw that the vet didn't want to mess with, she thought he might have been rubbing his chin on something, said it looked like "cat acne" -- I've been smearing Neosporin on the raw places, he won't put up with the usual hot wet washcloth which usually encourages these to break open and drain (I'm more familiar with doing this for "stud tail")
-- which may also explain where he's been getting that "extra" food 
