Jia&Sabrina
Member Since 2021
Hi,
It broke my heart to find out yesterday that Sabrina stopped eating. Her appetite has been fluctuating probably because she has a fractured canine tooth (we saw a specialist last Wednesday though he is not opt for extraction). Even with the broken tooth Sabrina always ate and I managed to give her enough calories everyday. Unfortunately, she stopped eating last night, even her favorite freeze dried venison snack isn’t appealing enough. So I decided to offer her one of her old food — Fancy Feast elegant medleys shredded salmon (11% carb according to Dr. Lisa’s food chart). She licked the gravy and ate a tiny bit. In the meanwhile she is still alert and is willing to drink water. I syringe fed her 1/3 pouch of nulo mousse this morning after insulin.
Now I wonder about dose adjustment. I do plan to keep syringe feeding her but should I keep the same dose even if she doesn’t eat enough? If she does eat FF medleys MC, I plan to keep offering her until she’s willing to eat LC food, is it necessary to increase the dose accordingly?
She seems to become insulin resistant and had the worst numbers yesterday since DX. In the meanwhile she is still alert (though she sleeps a lot). No vomiting.
Another two things that might be relevant are
- Recently she started to dry gag at the smell of Tiny Taster/Weruva Jeopurddy/and some other food that contains lotus bean gum. She is never enthusiastic about those food but gaging is new.
- She had soft stools yesterday.
Any advices are very much appreciated.
It broke my heart to find out yesterday that Sabrina stopped eating. Her appetite has been fluctuating probably because she has a fractured canine tooth (we saw a specialist last Wednesday though he is not opt for extraction). Even with the broken tooth Sabrina always ate and I managed to give her enough calories everyday. Unfortunately, she stopped eating last night, even her favorite freeze dried venison snack isn’t appealing enough. So I decided to offer her one of her old food — Fancy Feast elegant medleys shredded salmon (11% carb according to Dr. Lisa’s food chart). She licked the gravy and ate a tiny bit. In the meanwhile she is still alert and is willing to drink water. I syringe fed her 1/3 pouch of nulo mousse this morning after insulin.
Now I wonder about dose adjustment. I do plan to keep syringe feeding her but should I keep the same dose even if she doesn’t eat enough? If she does eat FF medleys MC, I plan to keep offering her until she’s willing to eat LC food, is it necessary to increase the dose accordingly?
She seems to become insulin resistant and had the worst numbers yesterday since DX. In the meanwhile she is still alert (though she sleeps a lot). No vomiting.
Another two things that might be relevant are
- Recently she started to dry gag at the smell of Tiny Taster/Weruva Jeopurddy/and some other food that contains lotus bean gum. She is never enthusiastic about those food but gaging is new.
- She had soft stools yesterday.
Any advices are very much appreciated.
