More Filou worries- 1/28 good update post 128

[gini]

Dear Barbara, I hope Filou will eat for you. Phred's suggestion of using baby food is a good one. It is something I have done over the years when the going got rough for my kids.

In the meantime - big hugs to you as you care for Filou.

[jennielynn1970]

I hope Filou starts to eat more soon! I know what that worry is like, but your little guy is so much thinner than my chubber that stopped eating. He's now doing better (but still diabetic).

Come on Filou!!! Eat please!!

[Barbara]

Tuesday fluids and an injection of appetite boosting glucose- not much result.
Wednesday the same: first no result. We went to a concert in the evening and came home late- tried to entice the boy with everything. He was around and interested, licked a little bit egg yolk (less than a tea spoon), didn't want his beloved Gimpet paste and not even the Temptations auntie Vio brought.
I was desperate but his behavior was still as if he wanted something and we just didn't know what (mouse liver pate I guess).
Then I opened a sample package of organic chicken and pumpkin which had been around for a while and of which we had checked a second sample when we first got it- nobody had wanted it (as usual with the special healthy food). This time he licked it from the tin but didn't eat much. We put him some on a small plate and on the table (to give him the suggestion he could eat like a human) - and there we go- he came back and ate it. And a second plate.
So Thursday was vet break and when I came home Siegmar told me he had eaten really well. Two little bowls of ground beef. And some goose fat- you can get it here around Christmas time and we bought some. And some liver sausage. And then -oh miracle- even a bit of his own renal food. No I won't spell "spoiled" here.
He goes for another appetite booster today as we want Trude the vet to have the weekend off. She is fantastic and the day we wanted to go to the concert she even had offered to pick him up and keep him at home until we are home. She is not ready to give Filou up and this is a good sign for me.

[Sonia59]

Of course Filou is spoiled but he deserves it, and everyone on PT would do the same. Your vet looks really great!

I hope Filou eats more. We keep fingers and paws crossed, and we often think about him here. I am sure he knows

[jenluckenbach]

Filou......living the good life.

[Bengalz]

We put him some on a small plate and on the table (to give him the suggestion he could eat like a human) - and there we go- he came back and ate it. And a second plate.
So Thursday was vet break and when I came home Siegmar told me he had eaten really well. Two little bowls of ground beef. And some goose fat- you can get it here around Christmas time and we bought some. And some liver sausage. And then -oh miracle- even a bit of his own renal food. No I won't spell "spoiled" here.
[/QUOTE]

Filou - it appears you and Eve have been having the same conversation So happy to hear all the people food is giving you the appetite you need to have sweetheart Keep up the good work baby boy

Barbara I know your heart is hurting with worry about Filou; we are all here for you and that precious little Monkeycat - I hope he feels much better soon.

Eve and mommy are sending lots and lots of hugs and kisses to your whole family

[Randi]

Oh joy! I'm so glad to hear about the turn Filou has taken. It sounds like a lot of different things he's eaten - and even his Renal diet.

The appetite booster must have helped, and I hope sweet Filou will keep eating and put on some weight.

Kisses to Filou - and also to Tigris!

[krazyaboutkatz]

Barbara, I'm so glad to hear that Filou is eating again and I hope he'll continue to show improvement. You sure have a wonderful vet.

[Vio&Juni]

Barbara, you do what you have to do. I'm sure if it were really the mouse liver pate that he needed, you would have gotten that for him.

It's good to hear that the little boy is eating. And if it takes to let him eat from the table, then so be it.