Argh... Loud stomach gurgles this morning. What set it off? The chicken liver? Did he eat a lot of dry food this morning before his wet food breakfast?
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Argh... Loud stomach gurgles this morning. What set it off? The chicken liver? Did he eat a lot of dry food this morning before his wet food breakfast?
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Mixed raw chopped liver into his food today and chicken liver powder to make it smell extra yummy. Fafnir seemed to like chewing on the raw bits. Grendel wasn't impressed. Faf's meows have been less wussy lately. I know that's a weird thing to say, but when he doesn't feel well he doesn't give us a hearty MEOW, he gives us a feeble meeeewwww. He's also chicken catting a little less, but not much. Chicken catting is what we call it when they lay there with their front paws tucked under so you can't see them. Both cats do that, but he's been too uncomfortable to sit otherwise for a while.
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Fafnir wasn't very interested in food today. But he ate a little.
A good overview of exactly what we're dealing with with Fafnir right now.
Leukeran Side Effects
Gave Faf his second dose of Leukeran (it's once every four days) on Saturday evening. He spent most of Sunday sprawled out sleeping on one of our laps. It really knocks the poor guy out. He was so tired he kept falling asleep, and dream-twitching, with his eyes half open. I haven't seen him literally "nod off" since he was a kitten. He also sneezes a lot. At least I think it's sneezing. I don't know what a kitty cough sounds like, but it resembles a light sneeze more than anything else, except that he'll have like 6 of them in a row.
He seems to be enjoying his morning wet food. He licks the liquid off, then tries to bury it. The. He leaves and comes back a minute later and licks/buries some more. Then after a third round he's finished off a decent portion.
He had bad gas and super smelly poo yesterday. I don't think he has diarrhea but his stool is very soft. BF says that might be a side effect of the meds.
This weekend he ate Wellness kitten dry food, Merrick Turducken wet, Blue Buffalo duck wet.
7.530 lbs
Today's weigh-in, before breakfast.
Faf used to get super annoyingly affectionate at night if his food bowl ran dry, and would lead you to it so you could refill it and he could chow down. He hasn't done that in forever... Until tonight. :))))) He was really great getting his B12 shot today too. We haven't had to use any of the appetite stimulant tablets, yet.
7.530 lbs
Today's weigh-in.
Faf actually asked for breakfast today! We've had a hard time getting him interested in it lately.
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Feline Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Feline inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition similar to Crohn's disease or celiac in humans. It has no known cause and no known cure. I started this blog to help document Fafnir's condition, as we have to carefully manage it for the rest of his life.
We suspected IBD, but were hoping it was a temporary food allergy, or maybe just irritable bowel syndrome. After a year of ups and downs and experimenting with Fafnir's diet, we scheduled an ultrasound. The ultrasound showed thickening of the bowels as well as damage to the ileum and a buildup of fluid near the spleen and liver.
The vet suspects either feline eosinophilic inflammatory bowel disease or lymphoma (cancer). The only way to tell for certain which one it is would be to do exploratory surgery and take a variety of biopsies. Because the treatment for both conditions is nearly identical, we have decided to forgo the invasive procedures and simply treat him instead.
He is currently on prednisolone (an anti inflammatory corticosteroid) twice a day and leukeran (a cat chemo drug that also has anti inflammatory properties) every four days. Since his ileum has taken the worst damage, we're also giving him vitamin B12 injections (cobalamin) twice a week. We also have appetite stimulant tablets to use as needed, but for now he appears to be somewhat interested in food and water, even if he's not consuming very many calories.
Every three weeks we'll need to bring him in for a complete blood count (CBC) to keep an eye on his white cell levels.
His vomiting stopped when we took fish (ironically, his favorite food) out of his diet. We're being very careful to keep him away from people food (he's sneaky about breaking into the butter), houseplants (he likes eating dead leaves), and have also moved his food/litter stations around to keep his food and water from getting contaminated with litter (he can kick litter clear across the room if he wants to).
We also have a baby scale that's accurate up to 0.5 ounces arriving in the mail today. We've been keeping an eye on his weight via our home scale (weigh yourself with the cat; weigh yourself without the cat; calculate the difference) for the past nine months, but a) it's supposedly only accurate to 0.2 pounds; and b) it doesn't seem very consistent. It's fine for monitoring human weight loss or weight gain but it's not sensitive enough to monitor the kitties.
The good news is that his symptoms don't appear to involve abdominal pain. He mostly looks lethargic and slightly nauseous, though thankfully he's stopped throwing up. His stomach also gurgles really loudly, but again, this has decreased significantly since removing fish from his diet.
Faf had an ultrasound on Tuesday. They had to shave his belly.