Priscilla's failing kidneys

**phesina** · 12-29-2006, 01:16 PM

Thank you, Katie and kitties (I kiss cats on the lips too!), Lorraine, and Anikaca77 for all the prayers and good wishes!

Priscilla just had her lunchtime syringe-feeding of MaxCal plus a few tuna-flavored Feline Greenies she ate on her own.

Love and purrs,
Priscilla and Pat

**kb2yjx** · 12-29-2006, 05:45 PM

That is great that Priscilla ate on her own!!!

**carole** · 12-30-2006, 03:16 AM

Come on Priscilla sweetie we are all here for you and Meowmie,hoping and praying you will continue to eat well and stablise, I am so sorry to hear about the troubles and worries you are having with your precious furbabie right now, know that you are very much in our thoughts and we sure hope she keeps improving, take care and hugs.

**phesina** · 12-30-2006, 09:30 AM

Thank you, Raven's Mom and Carole, for your prayers and encouragement, which Priscilla seems to be taking to heart.. She's still eating on her own!

Dr. Lewis and I have been playing phone tag for two days. I'm trying to catch up with her to find out what the Michigan State guy said and if I should change anything we're doing.

Thanks again, everyone, all you wonderful people and cats!

Love and purrs,
Priscilla and Pat

**kimlovescats** · 12-30-2006, 12:47 PM

I'm just now reading this thread and am sorry to hear of all that Priscilla has been going through. Hugs to you too, Meommy, for caring so much for her!

I pray that she continues to eat well and that her labs get much better!

Kim

**kb2yjx** · 12-30-2006, 05:01 PM

Hopefully after the Michigan State vet hears that Priscilla is eating on her own, nothing will be changed!!! Keep on eating Priscilla!!!!

**Soapets** · 12-30-2006, 05:51 PM

I'm keeping Priscilla in my prayers, too. I'm glad she seems some better, and is eating. PT prayers can work miracles, I've learned! Hang in there, and please keep us posted...........

**Medusa** · 01-15-2007, 08:55 AM

Glad to hear that Priscilla is doing better. My vet, Dr. Lee, agrees w/Barbara's vet, that it's better that she eats something rather than nothing. My Puddy has been in CRF for 2 years now and she is so stubborn and she turns up her nose at KD and nearly everything except her dry Purina Cat Chow and cooked chicken. So Dr. Lee said "Well then, give it to her, just make sure she gets those subQ fluids and see if she'll drink more water." So hopefully, things will go more smoothly for you. Puddy and I and the fur posse are pulling for you and Priscilla.

Blessings,
Mary

**phesina** · 01-15-2007, 06:00 PM

Thanks, Sandra and Mary, for the good wishes and encouragement. That's our idea, Mary, that it's best that she eat something, anything, if she won't eat the kidney food. She will eat some of the KD kibble but not very much.

Thanks, Sandra, about the Royal Canin Kitten Food. I found Royal Canin Babycat34 Food (dry) at Pet Supplies Plus today and got a bag. They didn't have Whiskas Ultra Milk. Is that a substitute for cats with lactose intolerance, or milk replacement for kittens that don't have mommy to nurse from? I got some JustBorn Milk Replacer for Kittens, but I'll wait until I hear what to look for before I try that.

I just served up a little of the Babycat (tiny morsels, indeed!). She sniffed it, pulled back, sniffed again, pulled back again. I put a pellet in her mouth a few times. She would suck it a bit, then let it drop back into the dish. Finally she put her head down and started eating! So at least it has aroused some interest. Maybe she'll like it more with the Ultra Milk!

Mary, that's great that Puddy has been going strong for two years in CRF! Thanks to her and you and the fur posse for the good wishes.

Sandra, this morning the weather people on TV were going crazy about the storm. They were running listings of all the school systems closed today. (I thought later, they were probably all closed anyway because today is Martin Luther King Day.) They said it's going to be freezing rain all day, then sleet and snow tonight. It was like, don't go out if you don't absolutely have to, and we're really gonna be walloped.

Tihs afternoon there was a glaze of ice on and around things. Tree branches and power lines fell in many places so power was out in many communities, but by and large things were going on as usual. Then this afternoon the "ice storm" warning was cancelled, and there are just going to be a few snow flurries. So, somehow we survived safely.

That's the latest. Thanks again, dear friends!

Pat and Priscilla

**Medusa** · 01-15-2007, 06:07 PM

Something that I forgot to mention but you've prob. tried it already: baby food w/her favorite in it. Puddy's happens to be chicken but whatever Priscilla likes. And it has enough moisture in it, too, so that base is covered. Just a thought.

Blessings,
Mary

**phesina** · 01-15-2007, 06:32 PM

Thanks, Mary. Yes, baby food is a common fallback. Sometimes she likes it, sometimes she doesn't. Her tastes change constantly. (What do I expect? After all, she's a CAT!)

Pat

**kb2yjx** · 01-16-2007, 10:52 AM

The Whiskas " Milk" is to give cats instead of milk. There may be other brands other there that I am unaware of. I will catmandu a poke to take a look at the posts!! Priscilla is behaving just like my Boo!!! Be ready to have s few more gray hairs!!! Glad you are OK. We are suppose to get some weather. Temps dropping and WIND!!!! I am going to light a fire in the stove shortly!!!

**phesina** · 01-16-2007, 06:35 PM

Thanks, Sandra, I'll see what Gary has to say. I'll exchange the "kitten replacement" milk for the "milk substitute" kind tomorrow, if that's the one to get.

Today there is a glaze of ice on all the bare tree branches right down to the tiniest twigs. The trees look lovely in the sunlight with the glistening light sparkling from the branches. (The branches that weren't so weighted down by the ice that they broke off and took down power lines or damaged cars and things.) But boy, is it ever COLD!!!!

Oh yeah, Priscilla likes something one time, then not the next. All of them do that, to some extent, but there isn't the urgency to make sure the others each eats a minimum amount (no problem like that with any of them).

This evening she ate a very little of the KD, then a very little of the Babycat, then a little more than that of some Trader Joe's Premium Dry Cat Food. Then some syringed MaxCal and her SubQ. So she got her quota.

Keep warm!

Pat