cat's in the shop...

[acroyear]

*sigh* she's getting old and fragile.  she cracked a tooth 2 weeks ago when trying a different food that ended up too hard for her, and possibly cracked her jaw in the process (well, she is a tiny little 6 pound thing).  so today she's in the vet to get the tooth removed and xrays to see if the jaw is broken or if its just an infection...

whah.

Comments

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Awww poor kitty. I hope she heals quickly.

How is she with canned food? I know that at least one of the kidney diets comes in a canned variety. Even if you don't go with a kidney diet, I would try to look for something low ash, lowish protein because I think those are the two things that stress the kidneys the most. Keep us informed.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

she loves the canned food she loves, but is extremely finnicky about it. most of my attempts to change the food on her to slightly cheaper brands have failed. i do have a can sample of the pro-kidney stuf but haven't risked it yet.

at this point its more important for her to get back to eating at her normal rate and get some pounds back on as she's lost a full pound since april over all of this.

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

This was what we thought was the allergic reaction, by the way... The swelling went down a bit when we took her off the eukanuba and put her back on her old science diet, which is softer than the eukanuba... The swelling might just have gone down from not eating the harder food.

Thanks for the suggestion, though, it helped in getting things weeded out in terms of what was actually wrong.