Spicey dislikes Legos

Christina Websell wrote:


"Bastette" wrote:

Roxy's pancreatitis is chronic, not acute. And it's quite possible that
the elevated pancreatic values are from another problem, such as irritable
bowel syndrome.

Well, maybe so, I'm not a vet, but I advise you not to try to cure
pancreatis (or anything else) with Chinese Herbs.
If Roxy has irritable bowel syndrome, has she? your vet will advise you how
to feed her. IMO Chinese Herbs are at best a rip off.

What I know personally about Chinese herbs wouldn't fill a kitten's nostril.
The herbs are from the vet. I'm not even sure "herbs" is the right word -
usually people refer to it as "Chinese medicine." Whether that means herbal
medicine, I have no idea. But Chinese culture has been around a lot longer
than most of ours - certainly US culture - so maybe they've learned a few
things? It's kind of moot, though, because I've stopped giving it to her.
She just really *detests* it. If I was absolutely certain it was working,
then I'd find a way to continue, but I feel like I'm tormenting her for an
uncertain outcome at best.

Pretty much everything I'm doing for Roxy right now has been suggested by
her vet, including her diet and her medicines. The only thing I've come up
with on my own is broiled chicken breast. She loves that and if I can't
get her to eat her prescription cat food, I'll give her some chicken so at
least she won't go hungry. Guess where I got that idea?

--
Joyce

I prefer to live with Feline Sapiens, thank you very much.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:03:30 +0000 (GMT), Judith Latham
wrote:
In article , Takayuki
I didn't think that Spicey would make it through her incident, but since
she's recovered, she's needed no special care, except that she has been
receiving a low dose prescription of insulin since then. The pancreatitis
seems to have exacerbated her diabetes.

That's good news. Purrs for it to continue.

She gets whisked off to the vet for more frequent check-ups than the
others, so she's highly suspicious these days.

Whenever I call her name, I also need to provide some kind of proof of good
intentions, like the shaking of a treat jar.

"Bastette" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:


"Bastette" wrote:

Roxy's pancreatitis is chronic, not acute. And it's quite possible that
the elevated pancreatic values are from another problem, such as
irritable
bowel syndrome.

Well, maybe so, I'm not a vet, but I advise you not to try to cure
pancreatis (or anything else) with Chinese Herbs.
If Roxy has irritable bowel syndrome, has she? your vet will advise you
how
to feed her. IMO Chinese Herbs are at best a rip off.

What I know personally about Chinese herbs wouldn't fill a kitten's
nostril.
The herbs are from the vet. I'm not even sure "herbs" is the right word -
usually people refer to it as "Chinese medicine." Whether that means
herbal
medicine, I have no idea. But Chinese culture has been around a lot longer
than most of ours - certainly US culture - so maybe they've learned a few
things? It's kind of moot, though, because I've stopped giving it to her.
She just really *detests* it. If I was absolutely certain it was working,
then I'd find a way to continue, but I feel like I'm tormenting her for an
uncertain outcome at best.

Pretty much everything I'm doing for Roxy right now has been suggested by
her vet, including her diet and her medicines. The only thing I've come up
with on my own is broiled chicken breast. She loves that and if I can't
get her to eat her prescription cat food, I'll give her some chicken so at
least she won't go hungry. Guess where I got that idea?

No idea ;-)
Once elderly cats get ill, and its serious and their appetite is bad you can
keep them going on real chicken. Providing you didn't spoil them with it
before.
Never, ever spoil your cat if it isn't ill with posh food otherwise you have
nothing to tempt them with when they are poorly.
Boyfie gets real chicken only if he's ill. Like when he got his dreadful
operation when his intestines were out.

"Takayuki" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:03:30 +0000 (GMT), Judith Latham
wrote:
In article , Takayuki
I didn't think that Spicey would make it through her incident, but since
she's recovered, she's needed no special care, except that she has been
receiving a low dose prescription of insulin since then. The
pancreatitis
seems to have exacerbated her diabetes.

That's good news. Purrs for it to continue.

She gets whisked off to the vet for more frequent check-ups than the
others, so she's highly suspicious these days.

Whenever I call her name, I also need to provide some kind of proof of
good
intentions, like the shaking of a treat jar.

She'll soon suss that out unless you do it randomly, like when there is not
a vet appointment in the offing.
I get the cat carrier down from where it is a week beforehand, but Boyfie
knows exactly what it means. It means He Is Going to The Vet sometime soon
and he doesn't like the idea because he's going to get an injection. Yes, an
injection that he doesn't realise will prevent him from getting nasty
diseases.
We do the annual injections with Tigger along too and he also knows when the
carrier comes out. He objects vehemently and is not above scratching his own
meowmie to say "I'm not going in the box"
Boyfie just accepts it. He doesn't have a scratch in him. He tries to
escape by going under the bed when he realises it's vet time but when I get
him out he just says "well. ok then. just don't let them kill me"
He used to faint when he got on to the vet's examination table, now he
doesn't. He just does flatcat. Tigger is very brave, he comes out of his
carrier upright but the wet paw marks he leaves on the vet's table tell a
different story.

Tweed