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Male cat urinary blockage

Sean

Sean

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Well it been a bit. I thought I should update everyone.
Mokkun is doing much better now raw or canned food only.
He does not sleep with Bella anymore. I rotate then in and out of my room.
Tonight is Bella night in my room (she is a bed hog) Mokkun is
off all the meds. He still chews now and then and has taken to ignoring
Bella and Tetsu when the bug heater is on :( But does come and snuggle
up to me in place of the heater :).
The only hard thing on the food change is Bella and canned food is still a slim
chance that she will eat it. So I give in a bit with her and let her have some kibble.
The really odd thing is she LIKES frozen beef and has started to eat some chicken again.
Both the boys LOVE the raw beef, chicken and the can food.

Thanks for all the support
Sean
 
John Popp

John Popp

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Sean said:
The only hard thing on the food change is Bella and canned food is still a slim chance that she will eat it. So I give in a bit with her and let her have some kibble.
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Breaking the kibble habit for some cats is extremely difficult and as troubling as it can be don't give up! The health benefits of eating raw and canned are far too great while over time removing kibble from the diet doesn't get any easier. With our two that like their kibble we have just really limited it and give them small amounts in a puzzle feeder after they finish eating their regular food. If they don't finish, we back off on the kibble which is fed through a puzzle feeder.

Anyway, glad things are going better and you are definitely making great progress!
 
Brigitte Cowell

Brigitte Cowell

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If Mokkun and Bella are rotated in and out of your room, maybe that is when you can give Bella some kibble, in a puzzle feeder as John suggests, more as a treat...

I've heard others suggest transitioning diehard kibble heads by mixing the kibble with the raw or canned... put less of the raw/canned and mostly kibble and then decrease the kibble bit by bit. Or if she will eat the raw, you could sprinkle some kibbles on top of the meal to make it more attractive to her?

When we took the kibble away (because of my eldest with early kidney failure) then it was cold turkey, there was some complaints but nobody felt strongly enough to go on a hunger strike...fortunately!
 
Sean

Sean

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Bella does go on a huger strike. She will step over it and
try to cover it up. Then she gets pushy and crawls into the
refrigerator when she is not pushing on your legs.

Sean
 
Brigitte Cowell

Brigitte Cowell

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Have you tried all the alternatives for her? Cooked chicken instead of raw perhaps? If you can find that she would eat that, then you can transition from there... it's just working out what she does like (other than kibble)...
 
admin

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Paige
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Brigitte Cowell said:
If Mokkun and Bella are rotated in and out of your room, maybe that is when you can give Bella some kibble, in a puzzle feeder as John suggests, more as a treat...

I've heard others suggest transitioning diehard kibble heads by mixing the kibble with the raw or canned... put less of the raw/canned and mostly kibble and then decrease the kibble bit by bit. Or if she will eat the raw, you could sprinkle some kibbles on top of the meal to make it more attractive to her?

When we took the kibble away (because of my eldest with early kidney failure) then it was cold turkey, there was some complaints but nobody felt strongly enough to go on a hunger strike...fortunately!
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My 9 yo DSH eats kibble and if I remove it, he will not eat...I am going to let him be...
 
Sean

Sean

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I have lost count of the selections that we have tried with Bella. She gets it into her
little brain and will not eat anything till the kibble comes out. The longest I am
willing to let her starve is 1 1/2 days. At that point if she has not eaten then I
will feed her the kibble or some raw beef. The people I got her from had her eating
raw beef and hairball control kibble. At least the kibble I give is EVO Turkey Chicken.
Some times she will eat EVO duck in the can but knowing when she will do it is like
guessing the weather in Washington.

Sean
 
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