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Montgomery Update

Posted: 14 May 2022, 20:08
by Montgomery
He's 8.3lbs.
Seriously.
8.3lbs.

He is fully transitioned onto a home-made diet now. He is having NORMAL bowel movements. If they were in the litter box, I wouldn't know they belonged to him. They tend to be just in front of the litter box. I think he starts in the box and the force of trying to go to the bathroom makes him come back out again. He still has issues actually expelling it from his person, even though it is not hard stool. He goes once a day now. Rarely does he make any laundry.

If this helps anyone, this is what we've done with his diet:

1lb extra lean ground chicken
1tsp ground freeze-dried chicken liver
3tsp Alnutrin with eggshell calcium
Hard-cooked egg.

Cook the chicken in 1/3 cup water. Keep the juices. Allow to thoroughly cool. Smash with potato masher and than a fork. Stir in liver and Alnutrin well. Add warm water. Stir again. (Not a lot of warm water. Eyeball it). Package in zipper bags and store in freezer.

When it's defrosted, take a hand blender to it to remove most of the lumps. Spoon into dish, sprinkle generously with hard-cooked egg, nuke for ten seconds. Feed to waiting cat. Fluff when he's licked it into the edge of the dish. Top with Nutritional Yeast when he doesn't want to finish the last mouthful of egg. Wash dish.

I can't believe it.

Re: Montgomery Update

Posted: 14 May 2022, 21:16
by jilbert57
V that is awesome. If anyone deserves his happy routine to come to fruition it is Montgomery!
Keep it up and thanks for posting what is working.

Jill

Re: Montgomery Update

Posted: 15 May 2022, 14:04
by Olesia711
thanks for posting Montgomery's new all home-made food regimen...... and so glad to hear that he is doing much better now!!!!!!!!

Re: Montgomery Update

Posted: 15 May 2022, 15:24
by Tuckaboo Pam
V---Did I miss something about EPI? Does Montgomery not have it? Sorry, I read so many topics, I forget. ---Pam

Re: Montgomery Update

Posted: 16 May 2022, 00:34
by Montgomery
Thanks everyone!
Yes, he still has EPI, although that turns out to be the least of his problems, oddly enough. His crazy small intestine and his IBD are the bain of his existance, but he's doing so much better on the home-cooked diet. He's a new man. He's a Mercer Race About with a Merlin engine. He's got energy to burn. He's so content now. His only trouble is still trying to actually pass stool. I've always suspected that he has either nerve or muscle issues back there, or both. I don't know. No one can give me a good answer on that one. At least now, it's only once a day.

Re: Montgomery Update

Posted: 16 May 2022, 10:00
by Jean
I am so pleased that he is doing so well its takes time to get on top of these type of thinngs and diet is often the biggie