Quote Originally Posted by jenn_librarian
How is Jimmy doing??
Thanks for asking about Jim! He is doing pretty well. The very rapid breathing that he was doing hasn't happened since that day and I think it must have been the wood smoke outside. But, he does have breathing issues and if it's not asthma, it's something and I want to get to the bottom of it so I can treat it properly.
I went and bought a big bag of Good News kitty litter which is an equivalent to Yesterdays News pellets. We haven't opened it yet though because we had 2 showings today because we're selling our house and my husband was concerned that the new litter might not be as effective (re: the smell) as the usual scoopable kind. So, we agreed that first thing tomorrow, we're switching them over. The lady at the petstore told me to mix the scoopable and the pellets together for a few days and slowly switch them over because the two litters are so different and it freaks them out if you just switch from one to the other. The reason I'm trying the new pellets is because I read about the dust from the scoopable getting into the lungs and lining the lungs and getting into the digestive track causing problems. I want to switch them not only for them but for us too since we clean the boxes a couple of times a day. I can only imagine how much of that crap we've breathed in.
I've taken Jimmy off wet food for the most part and he seems to feel better. His coat looks better and he's making less trips to the box. But....I want to start him on the Transfer Factor (that I ordered for Tiger) too when it gets here and I'm going to have to mix it in with wet food. My hope is that the TF doesn't have much of a taste and then maybe I can mix a capsule into a small amount of wet food for Jimmy each morning.