Oh great, it's kidney disease
16 Jul 2019 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneIt's kidney disease!
So now Snookums, who has diabetes, needs one special diet (high protein, high fat, low to no carb) and the BB needs another - really she just needs carefully limited phosphorus apparently.
The vet recommended those Science Diet foods that vets sell, which are a scam but one bought into by many vets, since dry food at all regardless of formulation is anywhere from moderately to extremely harmful to a cat with urinary or kidney issues. Anyway, some searching revealed that the thing these diets have in common besides that is low protein, often harmfully low i.e. low enough for the cat to start digesting its muscle tissue if it doesn't manage to eat enough of it, and there's no evidence that low protein diets are any use at all to cats with kidney disease until the final stages of the disease. [ETA: No wait that's not true, those are the MAIN features of the diets but they have other stuff not duplicated by simply feeding normal food that happens to be low in phosphorus etc.] We will therefore be stuck researching both cat diets the hard way, and feeding the cats separately and then picking their food up between meals. I don't have the mental bandwidth to investigate raw food yet (although it would certainly be cheaper and less heavy than the quantities of wet food we've been buying).
The other thing BB is gonna need for the time being are supplements and periodic tests.
She tried to bite the vet assistants and flipped out so hard they had to sedate her twice, because when they came back to do the blood test she was starting to wake up and did an Uma Thurman at the beginning of Kill Bill and nearly backflipped herself off the table. We tried to give her a minute to calm down and she Uma-dragged herself across the floor of the exam room to hide under the table, swaying and bonking into the furniture, and then got confused and distracted rubbing her face on my hand when I reached down to give her a towel to lie on. It was adorable. Later when she woke up from the second sedation the vet was in the room giving me the bad news in Finnish and so she was too alarmed to lie anywhere near the vet, but she didn't want to hide under the desk when I wouldn't come under there with her, and she kept sway-wobbling back towards me saying "Yorp" urgently, and when I put out my hand to her she'd hurry up her tiny little footsteps and wobble forward to headbutt it, but she refused to come closer than that until the vet left.😭 😂 😍
Our tiny badass
So now Snookums, who has diabetes, needs one special diet (high protein, high fat, low to no carb) and the BB needs another - really she just needs carefully limited phosphorus apparently.
The vet recommended those Science Diet foods that vets sell, which are a scam but one bought into by many vets, since dry food at all regardless of formulation is anywhere from moderately to extremely harmful to a cat with urinary or kidney issues. Anyway, some searching revealed that the thing these diets have in common besides that is low protein, often harmfully low i.e. low enough for the cat to start digesting its muscle tissue if it doesn't manage to eat enough of it, and there's no evidence that low protein diets are any use at all to cats with kidney disease until the final stages of the disease. [ETA: No wait that's not true, those are the MAIN features of the diets but they have other stuff not duplicated by simply feeding normal food that happens to be low in phosphorus etc.] We will therefore be stuck researching both cat diets the hard way, and feeding the cats separately and then picking their food up between meals. I don't have the mental bandwidth to investigate raw food yet (although it would certainly be cheaper and less heavy than the quantities of wet food we've been buying).
The other thing BB is gonna need for the time being are supplements and periodic tests.
She tried to bite the vet assistants and flipped out so hard they had to sedate her twice, because when they came back to do the blood test she was starting to wake up and did an Uma Thurman at the beginning of Kill Bill and nearly backflipped herself off the table. We tried to give her a minute to calm down and she Uma-dragged herself across the floor of the exam room to hide under the table, swaying and bonking into the furniture, and then got confused and distracted rubbing her face on my hand when I reached down to give her a towel to lie on. It was adorable. Later when she woke up from the second sedation the vet was in the room giving me the bad news in Finnish and so she was too alarmed to lie anywhere near the vet, but she didn't want to hide under the desk when I wouldn't come under there with her, and she kept sway-wobbling back towards me saying "Yorp" urgently, and when I put out my hand to her she'd hurry up her tiny little footsteps and wobble forward to headbutt it, but she refused to come closer than that until the vet left.😭 😂 😍
Our tiny badass
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Date: 16 Jul 2019 03:34 pm (UTC)Good luck, it's so hard to balance. Please give them pets!
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