Re: Ember and (now) weight gain
Hi Lance Glad that Ember is gaining weight ...that is really good news. The Whole Dog Journal does a yearly evaluation of commercial pet food and they always rate Wellness very highly. I discovered Petguard (wet) which is the Whole Foods label. It is the first food that MeMe really loves and it has helped her kick her Fancy Feast habit and to gain almost two (needed) pounds. Lance, where do you get Maitake DMG liquid? We are coming to the end of a large bottle that we got from the vet and I need to order more. Thanks always for your help. Jane On Nov 19, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Lance wrote: Hello List, As you may recall, I posted a few weeks back about my FeLV+ girl, Ember, having lost weight since last January. I'd taken her off of EVO dry due to serious diarrhea. I don't think EVO is a bad food, and she did very well on it for many months before the diarrhea. Unfortunately, when I pulled dry food, Ember dropped almost 1.5 pounds over nine months or so. I've put Ember on one of the Wellness dry formulas, and she's gained about 8/10ths of a pound back. I'm pretty pleased. I'm curious to know what people think of Wellness, specifically of the pouched "chunky" food vs. the canned. Also, I purchased some Wellness CORE, but I'm a bit concerned it'll be too much for her. She's just getting the standard Wellness chicken dry food for now. I've found that Ember's appetite is easily stimulated with Kitty Kaviar, and at someone's suggestion, I've been putting just a bit of salt on the wet EVO that she still gets, and this seems to help. I'm very relived that dry food did the trick, and my vet is, too. This has been a Fluffy Pants status update. Lance -- Lance Linimon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Ember and (now) weight gain
I LOOOVE the Wellness! All my cats are on it- personal cats and fosters. I have some foster kittens under 1 year old, so they are on Wellness canned kitten (at night) and the Wellness chicken dry that is for kittens and adults. They love love love it. I have one cat that is 1 year and 2 months and she eats the dry wellness with the kittens and then regular adult wellness canned at night. I did have her on Wellness Core for months. She came to me as a rescued owner surrender to metro AC and altho she was already a spayed, declawed, indoor house cat, she seems skinny and teeny for her age- at that time, almost 1 year. Her neck was really small and she looked funny/frail- altho she's a tortie- she seemed to have a siamese face- and I realized now it's b/c she was just slightly undernourished, but not so much to have affected her skin and coat yet. She packed on muscle after being with me only 2 weeks. Now, she's a super healthy 1 year old and she's "beefy"- but doesn't have an once of fat on her. I really think the months of Core really beefed her up. However, when I started taking in more kittens and feeding them the regular wellness dry, she started trying to always eat it. She liked the Core, but she PREFERRED the regular wellness more. Eventually, I had to transition her to wellness dry as it was easier to keep everyone on the same food and the kittens really shouldn't be eating non-kitten food like Core. So, I think either is good. While I suspect the Core- being that it's based on the raw food diet for cats- would be the most protein-packed, the regular wellness that is for "kittens and adults" is still really really good. You can put Ember on kitten wet food since you are worried about her weight loss and caloric intake. It doesn't matter how old she is...if she had lost weight and needs to beef up, the extra calories in kitten food is essential. I would feed her Wellness kitten. Mine love it and it's just so high-qual- you can tell just by looking at it. I have had kittens turn down Science Diet kitten wet, but none so far can resist the wellness! I have given the new wellness pouches only to my 1 year old tortie as a "treat" meal about once a week. They do have a lot of gravy and you will notice the canned wellness is not swimming in gravy, so I didn't want her to get fat. I think kitten wet wellness would be preferable to feed Ember than a diet of the pouches, but that's just me. I think they are nice as a special treat, but my tortie doesn't seem to care, as she loves any wellness wet- whether from a can or a pouch! You can also try adding some supplements to the wet food like Nutrical- to get in even more calories. The biggest danger with a cat with weight loss is fatty liver disease and Nutrical alone (for a cat not eating at all), can stave this off. I have added it to the food of the starving, malnourished outside cat I found a while ago and it worked well. Other supplements I use on foster kittens who need to "beef up" and get extra calories and help fighting off URIs are: Brewer's yeast (but start adding it very slowly for a cat- just a sprinkle and work your way up from there); "Just Born with Colostrum"- which you can order online. It can be used as a supplement for kittens and adult cats- sprinkle and mix into wet food- it's not just a powdered milk formula for baby kitties. Since Ember is Felv+, if you aren't already using this, you need to b/c of the colostrum that's in it. One container lasts a long long time, so it's worth it; also, L-Lysine; and Salmon oil. I don't use all supplements in each meal- I alternate them. I find the cats actually like the Brewer's yeast the most being added to their food-- they can tell when it's in there and when I forgot to add it/was being lazy. My tortie will not eat all her wet food unless she has some BY in it! I think a lot of this info is a repeat of past posts, so if you want more detailed info about Brewer's Yeast and/or colostrum and "Just Born," you can look thru the archives for emails with these topic headlines b/c I know they were discussed back over the past summer and fall. You can also look for my ?'s and answers I received to my posts about my "malnorished rescue" cat from the summer. There should be info there about beefing up a cat with weight loss -Caroline > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> Subject: Ember and (now) weight gain> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:49:13 -0600> > Hello List,> > As you may recall, I posted a few weeks back about my FeLV+ girl, Ember,> having lost weight since last January. I'd taken her off of EVO dry due> to serious diarrhea. I don't think EVO is a
RE: Ember and (now) weight gain
I feed mine Wellness wet--- have two who just put on the pounds if they so much look at food. But I also have 3 who must have some dry food and I did try the Wellness dry. None of them really liked it--and I tried twice. I feed wet primarily but give them a bit of dry in the late evening. Christiane Biagi 914-632-4672 Cell: 914-720-6888 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katrina Animal Reunion Team (KART) www.findkpets.org Join Us & Help Reunite Katrina-displaced Families with their Animals -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:49 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Ember and (now) weight gain Hello List, As you may recall, I posted a few weeks back about my FeLV+ girl, Ember, having lost weight since last January. I'd taken her off of EVO dry due to serious diarrhea. I don't think EVO is a bad food, and she did very well on it for many months before the diarrhea. Unfortunately, when I pulled dry food, Ember dropped almost 1.5 pounds over nine months or so. I've put Ember on one of the Wellness dry formulas, and she's gained about 8/10ths of a pound back. I'm pretty pleased. I'm curious to know what people think of Wellness, specifically of the pouched "chunky" food vs. the canned. Also, I purchased some Wellness CORE, but I'm a bit concerned it'll be too much for her. She's just getting the standard Wellness chicken dry food for now. I've found that Ember's appetite is easily stimulated with Kitty Kaviar, and at someone's suggestion, I've been putting just a bit of salt on the wet EVO that she still gets, and this seems to help. I'm very relived that dry food did the trick, and my vet is, too. This has been a Fluffy Pants status update. Lance -- Lance Linimon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ember and (now) weight gain
Hello List, As you may recall, I posted a few weeks back about my FeLV+ girl, Ember, having lost weight since last January. I'd taken her off of EVO dry due to serious diarrhea. I don't think EVO is a bad food, and she did very well on it for many months before the diarrhea. Unfortunately, when I pulled dry food, Ember dropped almost 1.5 pounds over nine months or so. I've put Ember on one of the Wellness dry formulas, and she's gained about 8/10ths of a pound back. I'm pretty pleased. I'm curious to know what people think of Wellness, specifically of the pouched "chunky" food vs. the canned. Also, I purchased some Wellness CORE, but I'm a bit concerned it'll be too much for her. She's just getting the standard Wellness chicken dry food for now. I've found that Ember's appetite is easily stimulated with Kitty Kaviar, and at someone's suggestion, I've been putting just a bit of salt on the wet EVO that she still gets, and this seems to help. I'm very relived that dry food did the trick, and my vet is, too. This has been a Fluffy Pants status update. Lance -- Lance Linimon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
