Hi everyone. I just wanted to update you on Monkee's situation and ask for some help/advice with his eating. He has been doing really well since last week. I pretty much just decided to drop his other two vets for now and focus on getting him care from his homeopathic vet Dr. Maier. Monkee was eating his raw food really well. We went to see Dr. Maier on Friday and she said he looked really good- his heart was strong (weak murmur), he was alert and he weighed 12 pounds. Which was nice to know because every time he went to Dr. Daley's, I don't think they ever weighed him so I didn't know how much weight he'd lost with the chemo and anemia. He started at 13 pounds and some ounces, so he hasn't lost too much yet. Dr. Maier added another homeopathic remedy to further help detox him. He was so good for the ride out and
back from Dr. Maier's and at her clinic. It was hilarious-- I could tell he was much more happier and I knew I made the right decision about his care. It was a total 180 from his behavior at Dr. Daley's!!!
However, his appetite started dropping off this weekend. I can't get him to eat his raw food. I bought him all this Wellness wet food at the pet store to get him eating organic and he won't eat it at all, so I went back to the gravy-soaked Fancy Feast. He will only drink some of the gravy. I also tried putting his chicken livers and raw beef in a blender and liquefying it because he seems to like gravy so much and I thought the stringy chick livers were too much effort for him to chew. He really only drank a little of that. I can get him to eat table scraps of my own food- broiled restaurant fish- but that is not the kind of stuff he's supposed to be eating to help his anemia.
He also started eating litter-- which has been really hard for me because I know if he wasn't anemic, he would never do anything like that. He's very OCD about his litter box and I think if he could think straight, the mere thought of nibbling on litter would appall his sensibilities. I emailed Dr. Maier about that and she told me to start him on Silica- which I got from the health food store and started on Sunday.
I am aware the transfusion may be wearing off. Also, he is no longer on the appetite stimulant Cyproheptadine because last week he was eating fine without it.
I have emailed Dr. Maier to let her know and see what she can do for him. But I also wanted to know if any of you have any other "tricks" up your sleeves that I can try on him?
Thanks,
Caroline
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