Quote Originally Posted by Catty1
Pyka had a vet checkup yesterday morning. Poor mom is getting tired...she is feeding him 5 - 6 times a day, working up to 1 1/4 cans by next week.
He was put on a new Morphine patch, so he is subdued, but of course lethargic and not having a lot of appetite.
Thanks....
Morphine patch I would say is the appetite surpressant. As long as Pkya is on that I would say eating is not going to be easy. 1 1/4 cans is a good start but most cans of wet food you have to eat 4 small ones (3 oz size) or 2 (6 oz size) ones a day.


Suggestions:

(1) Cook some plain white rice and give it to Pyka. Also use the water it's boiled in for drinking. This helps upset tummys.
Cook some hamburger (rinse and drain well with water) mix with white rice.

(2) Is chewing an issue? If so take dry kibble and grind it in a coffee grinder (not a food processor). Coffee grinder will pulvervise nicely to a powder consistancy. Using a food processor requires a liquid and that gets really gummy and paste like consistancy.
Mix the wet food and dry together and moisten frequently with hot water (with a syringe) to make it more palitable to taste. Hot water (I run it through coffee maker) makes it smell more too.
I use the above #2 method with Thumper

(3) NutralCal (get it a any good petstore) is great to stimulate appetites.