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Dooley still challenged

Rafiki

Rafiki

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$125 per hour sounds quite reasonable considering what you received in return. I am thinking that I may reach out to her in the near future as I was told to restrict fat due to the past liver issues. I am following her website advice in regards to the supplements but different types of proteins have different amounts of bone and fat and I could really use some help there. Thanks for the info John and I must say that it sounds like you are on the right track with Dooley.
 
John Popp

John Popp

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You're always welcome to call me, just pm me and I'll send you my number.

Fat isn't going to hurt your cats liver, maybe its pancreas but not its liver.

What you really want is low protein, under 30% protein if possible and try to avoid carbs. So lean meats like rabbit (80% protein) are not the friend of your cat with liver disease.

Here's a good example using a single piece of meat that helped me a ton realizing I'm going to be able to make this work. A whole chicken thigh is about 35% protein and 65% fat. Remove the skin and the chicken thigh becomes 70% protein and 30% fat. At first that didn't make sense to me, but the Percentages aren't coming from volume but rather the calorie count.

For our purposes, Dr Pierson did want to use some carbs so we can get some organ meat in the mix. For the Carbs we plan on using sweet potatoes to make up about 10% of the calories.

Anyway, as I said I'm pretty stoked about rolling forward on this and even if I was buying canned food I am far better informed.
 
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John Popp

John Popp

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Dooley has been doing very well and we are just a few days from beginning to migrate him back to a raw diet. He's been running on his wheel at full speed at 3am and I have little doubt that he is worlds fastest cat on the one fast cat wheel. That first lunge and wrapping his paws around the outside of the wheel is key and at some point I will need to do the math to figure out just how fast he's traveling.

Also spoke with the IM Vets office and while they gave me the green light to migrate to a 30% protein raw diet, they really wanted to stay at arms length. As long as he doesn't show any neurological signs we are good to proceed and we will check blood ammonia levels after 30days. Hopefully the next step will be reducing the Meds.
 
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Paige
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That is fantastic news! Glad to hear it! And no... Zuri is the fastest cat on the wheel... Relatively speaking


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John Popp

John Popp

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admin said:
Zuri is the fastest cat on the wheel... Relatively speaking
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That's why I put the qualifier in there on the different wheel.

Dooley is way too big for his current wheel and can't really stretch it out.

Here's a video of him airing it out. Notice that he's airborne twice per stride when he's really moving and the bunny hops on the rear legs is something he adapted tto for wheel use.



 
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