Buddy
Sickness
If you are familiar with our blog you know that we have an
older and ill cat.
We have been quiet on
this end as we are dealing with Buddy's illness.
He was better for a while, even gained some weight.
He was playing and even running around.
But things have gone downhill in a hand-basket rather
quickly. We aren't able to contain the
diarrhea, got the vomiting under control and gone, BUT.
He's continued to drink and stay hydrated, giving him
homemade pedialite, chicken soup, water and water. He's continued to lose weight and pumpkin
and other remedies are not doing it. He's 15 and it appears it's his time soon.
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| Buddy with Baby in 2014 she was 6 months old. |
You can get a sense of how big he was in the photo. That’s him with Baby when she was six months
old in 2014. At most she's 7 pounds. He’s never really been a lap cat, but boy can he purr… sitting
next to you.
He's always been a huge cat, has pretty blue eyes, even
though they are crossed, he's been agile over the years. Not so now that he's
dwindled away.
He’s hanging on, and the constant diarrhea is slowly turning
into smaller, less runny splats. BUT still splatty.
Changing
the diet to deal with this
Thank goodness the vomiting stopped. His appetite is good
and we’ve beefed it up with food that has grains in it mixing the wet and dry
foods into a mush for him. We leave dry
food, but he ignores it until we wet it. Hence the mix of wet and dry
mush. We tried the chicken with rice, the chicken with mashed potatoes, no go
on either. Tried just plain canned chicken, cooked pieces of chicken
breast. Nada!
The vexing part of this is that it alternates from a good to
splatty all in one day. We can’t get a
handle on what is working.
We’re seeing some improvement in the splats with the grain
food and canned food. We’re trying not
to get too optimistic and too hopeful.
Because we’ve been down this road before with him. So roller coastery –probably not a word-but
it describes the emotional toll of the ordeal.
No more grain-free for him, the others have problems with
the dyes, so they are still on grain-free and are okay. I, Grayce and Rusty used to throw up the food
with red dyes all the time.
The pumpkin worked for a while, the antibiotic,
unfortunately killed all the good flora and can’t be used much and it didn’t do
anything anyway. He won’t take yogurt or
yogurt drinks to counteract the antibiotic damage. Tommy who had chronic
impacted bowels was easy. Tommy loved
the yogurt and it was great for him.
Biggles loves yogurt, he’s not sick. Isn’t it always the way?
Squeekie will miss him very much, she's not a people cat,
but a Buddy cat, she's 10.
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| Squeekie |
Baby will miss him too, that's her pal, her favorite target
to headlock. The tiny 7 pounder taking a
flying wrestling leap at the 25 pounder was always fun to watch. She has taken to just tiny head-butts and a
soft head rub without knocking him down.
As a kitten she took care of It, until he passed. Now 7 years later, her Buddy is going.
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