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Turgid Drama, or Terrible Digestion?
Feb. 8th, 2016 07:25 amWe bought some high-protein kitten food to sneak into Galen's unicorn meat (aka the low-stress-to-the-digestive-system food we buy from the vet). Since he's a snacker rather than a gulper, we can't really change how much he eats. We can only try to increase the number of calories he gets per meal, and hope that some of that sticks so he can gain weight back to his more normal 10 lbs.
He's mildly picky. More on routine than on content, but there are times when he'll just refuse to change. (Like when we tried to change his brand of litter, and he just didn't use the box for a day. Until we bought some of the old stuff, and then he used it three times in an hour in relief.) As suggested numerous places, we mixed in some of the kitten food with his regular stuff to make it less changey.
...I'm not sure we need have bothered. I liken the unicorn meat to melba toast: it's somewhat bland to make digestion easier. (By cat standards. It still has to be stinky, and of course it's meat, not bread.) By contrast the kitten food is butter and jam. He yummed it right up and has been eating (and using the litter box) more. Also throwing up a lot less, which we think is the main problem with his weight loss.
Which brings me to this morning. As I got ready for work my slipper slid a bit on the floor. That usually means cat puke, and it did here. I grumbled a bit, taking off my slipper to make sure I didn't track it anywhere else in the house, and got paper towels to clean it up. As I finished that... splut. I stepped in a secondary pool with my bare foot.
So how's your day starting?
He's mildly picky. More on routine than on content, but there are times when he'll just refuse to change. (Like when we tried to change his brand of litter, and he just didn't use the box for a day. Until we bought some of the old stuff, and then he used it three times in an hour in relief.) As suggested numerous places, we mixed in some of the kitten food with his regular stuff to make it less changey.
...I'm not sure we need have bothered. I liken the unicorn meat to melba toast: it's somewhat bland to make digestion easier. (By cat standards. It still has to be stinky, and of course it's meat, not bread.) By contrast the kitten food is butter and jam. He yummed it right up and has been eating (and using the litter box) more. Also throwing up a lot less, which we think is the main problem with his weight loss.
Which brings me to this morning. As I got ready for work my slipper slid a bit on the floor. That usually means cat puke, and it did here. I grumbled a bit, taking off my slipper to make sure I didn't track it anywhere else in the house, and got paper towels to clean it up. As I finished that... splut. I stepped in a secondary pool with my bare foot.
So how's your day starting?
