Here's and odd pill disguiser for you: Marshmellows!
A friend of mine has a cat named Satan, (yeah, I know, but IF YOU ONLY
KNEW HIM -the cat- YOU'D UNDERSTAND..the name is earned!), that could
not be pilled. Oh, he'd stand on a freshly delivered pizza covered up
to his knees in sauce and cheese, but he'd still find a pill hidden in
cheese, pizza sauce, meat..etc...When one day he stole a bag of
mini-marshmellows out of the drawer and curled up with them hissing
and spittin whenever Angie came close to him....and it dawned on
her....little marshmellows. Three years now and Satty gets his happy
pill every morning...and there's a little less evil in the house. (But
go easy on the candy...too much sugar's not good for a cat!)
*/Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
Tamara, you are right about the Pill Pockets… it does not work for
all cats but if it does it is easy! The strays I was feeding would
not take them but a little ball of ham, liverwurst, or anything
sort of smelly—they wolfed up!
/*/Chris/*/
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *tamara
stickler
*Sent:* Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:51 PM
*To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
*Subject:* [Norton AntiSpam] Re: Opinions wanted on Royal Canin v.
Wellness please
Mari,
For the record, Coebeio isn't Felv+, I don't know if that makes a
difference, but it might, so I thought you should know.
Ok, red dyes. That finding was just by trial and error. It finally
occured to me that when I feed her something with red dye in
it...she'd break out around the face and neck & start
vomitting....not right away...but within several hours...or a day.
I tested that ...and I'm now very certain that that as well as the
salmon, shrimp & crab are all contributing factors to her
break-outs. NOT that she doesn't have them anymore...because she
does..but they are less frequent.
Now I only feed her chemical free, human grade, no preservative,
no antibotic added, free ranged-meat contained foods. It seems to
be helping somewhat.
As for canned food, Solid Gold seems the most palitable and best
quality, healthiest, for Coebeio. They have a website where you
can order directly: http://www.solidgoldhealth.com/
As for the allergies....My vet is still trying to help me to
figure it all out as well. Getting rid of the dyes in the food
helped. Getting rid of corn in the food helped. Not burning
scented candles, not using deoterizors in the carpet
...helped....trying to limit stress has helped. But yes, she still
gets breakouts...from time to time, and I just can't figure out
why. What makes it worse is I haven't been able to get her to the
vet in ..oh, three years or so. While she is an indoor cat, when
she doesn't want to be caught...she can't be caught. You can't
even get close enough to scruff her. I picked her up off the
street as an adult, and the only reason I was able to then...is
because she came willingly when I told her to get in the car.
One thing I will mention tho...not to upset you, but just to keep
an eye out for...if your cat is frequently going off food that he
would eat for a few days....Is he urinating more as well? Is he
drinking more? When is the last time you had blood work done? (My
Quintapus started that...progressively "picky" eating....turned
out his kidneys had started to fail.)
Oh, and with all due respect to Chris, yes try the pill pockets
(but they cost about $4-5 a pouch), but not one of my animals, or
my extended family's animals will touch them. I used to hide pills
in oyster meat, a little bit of tuna or white fish...scallops &
sardines (rinse the salt) make a nice disguise...or even spam-(but
only use a little bit spam has a LOT of salt).
Good luck.
T
*/Mari Kolbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
T:
Very interesting - how did you ascertain that it was the red
dyes? I have long suspected that it was the dyes in the
various foods that have caused many of mine to vomit their
food so I have been not feeding anything that obviously has
colored kibble in it. Are all the dyes marked as "Red Dye #xx"
or are some of them disguised as other chemical names?
How do Coebeio's allergies manifest themselves? We currently
have a four year old cerebellar hypoplasia cat who is a manx
mix totally blind epileptic (his identical sister is totally
blind and deaf). He was fine up until about a year ago and
then started digging around his face and neck - literally raw.
We at first thought earmites and had him checked. All
parasites, fleas, earmites - negative. His vet says food
allergies and he has had a series of depo medrol injections
which did nothing. Vet has had him on several of the different
single source protein foods - no change. Currently he is on
Royal Canins special allergy dry food and we are not seeing
any change.
We have to feed him canned food as that is the only way to get
his phenobarbitol into him for his seizures and we tried
several different allergy canned foods. He will eat them a
couple of days and then just stop eating - ANYTHING so we have
gone back to canned cr** food to mix his meds in which I know
is defeating the purpose. Any ideas on canned food that might
be better for him that he will eat would be appreciated. He
has to have the canned food for meds because while he only
weighs 4#, being blind makes him totally freak if you try to
administer meds to him any other way. And once he starts to
panic, it brings on a seizure. (Little stinker won't eat the
Eagle Pack canned and our Petco's quit carrying the Solid Gold
which he would eat a few months ago.......)
Thanks again, T, for your input.
/mari
On 6/22/05, *tamara stickler* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Mari,
I feed Coebeio the hairball formula. She has horrible
allergies, but it seems to be easy on her stomach and she
likes it. Plus when Quintapus was alive, I bought it because
it was low in phosphorous and he had CRF. Coey also eats the
chicken, mixed in from time to time to keep her interest.
A lot of cat foods have salmon or shell fish in them and oddly
enough, Coebeio is allergic not to the grains, but to red food
dye (which like the dyes in lipstick- comes from fish oil),
salmon and shell fish.
I also feed high quality cat canned food, such as : Solid
Gold, Eagle pack, Merrick.
Hope this helps.
T
*/Mari Kolbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>/* wrote:
T:
Which Eagle Pack are you feeding? We have several with
allergies and are having trouble finding a food that truly
makes a difference. Someone gave me two different dry
formula Eagle Pack foods and both had grains in them. Do
you feed canned also?
/mari (Spirit Cat)
On 6/21/05, *tamara stickler* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Kerry,
Personally speaking, my cats did better on Wellness than
Royal Canin. They like(d) both tho. I now feed Eagle Pack
(because of Coebeio's allergies-she does better on it),
BUT, I use other high quality cat foods, Wellness...Royal
Canin, Wysong, Newmans, as treats instead of buying the
more expensive cat "treats" that are basically just corn
and by-products. Besides...two 6lb bags will last you 12
months or more...for say...$20 total...when cat treats are
what(?) $2 per pouch and that only lasts about a week.
Just a thought.
T
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