Wednesday Woe!

No! I _do_not_want_the_pills! NO!

This morning Toro showed me his stamp of disapproval at my audacity at asking him to take his meds. NO! His whole body says! NO! After his meds, he was still not talking to me :)

He has to take his 1/4 alutab (phospate binder), his fortekor and his azodyl with some water. He usualy takes them all very easily. We just go through the usual routine and after he has some kibble, I am usually forgiven until the next morning:)

The amigos on sleepy sunday...an Update

I do not like being bullied by the squirt! tell him to leave me alone.

Megat likes Tanaka but I guess The Rocket can be quite a handful. He jumps on him, ambushes him from corners, pummel him with his hind legs and sometimes pull him about by his collar. However Megat would look for Tanaka to play with him so I guess Megat does not mind it...sometimes. I have to rescue Megat sometimes as Tanaka is very boisterous and once Megat was coughing from all the activity. So we always watch them when these 2 are playing.

Tanaka learnt that in the amigo house, a cat must rest sometimes...

If not he goes back into the cage for time-out. :) Tanaka has been learning the art of resting from every one of the kitties and I notice that more and more, he does take the time to stop..but only for a minute. If he does not, then I would catch him and make him stop for a bit. He has also learnt to keep still when someone is holding him, sometimes for 1o minutes at a stretch. For a little kitty, this is quite admirable.

No more meds! No more meds!

Ms Akira is not getting used to the routine of taking both her meds with good grace. She hacks and tries to spit the liquid and has to be tricked :)) into taking her pills. I am sorry to say this morning, she threw up a soild mass of dry food :(. But she takes her canned food very well. We will have to see how the rest of the days will go. But after her meds, she still talks to me so at least I am not her mortal enemy...yet.

Only Grandma loves me...

I think Bujang feels left out of the whole kitty and meds business. I could see the surprise in his round eyes when he watched Cousin R or grandma and I feeding Toro with the feeding tubes. So we have been making a great fuss of him and hide-and-seek is the favourite game in our household now, except only Bujang and I know how to play this game. Toro usually would give my position away to Bujang so I always lose, much to Bujang's delight. I know we can stop the game when he wins at least 2 out of 3 times. :)

Some day all this will be over...but when?

Toro has gone through the rest of his Falamin without incident. He takes his fluids obediently or at least without a great deal of struggling and is now on canned food + hot water for 1 1/2 days already. He does not like Fussiecat Tuna and Chicken with water. He simply refused to eat it. However, at dinner last night, he actually ate Tanaka's Natural Balance Tuna + water, much to Tanaka's very loud disgust :) So today he had both his meals with Tanaka. I hope in this way, he gets all the water he needs as he also drinks from the 2 CATITs that we have.

I tried to put water in all the amigos bowls - Ms Akira would eat it, Megat licks up his food slowly (he doesn't like it with water) and Bujang would just lick all the water and eat a little of his food!! At least everyone would get a little more water, no matter what. :)

The Vet's Verdict - of stools and digestive problems

You are believing the vet?

Yesterday I found some blood in Toro's stools and today we went to the vet. After many questions about his toys (I always keep his da bird after we play with it) the vet said she suspected that there may be some trouble with his big intestines (after having over ruled small intestine issues). She also felt his underside and told me he had some stools and they seemed to be hard ones. Then she put on her gloves (ouch) and proceeded to extract a stool sample as I had been unable to get a sample for her the whole day!

She told me that his stool was hard but there was no evidence of blood on it. I told her that yesterday his stool was soft and there was a small blob, about 5 mm of blood (red) on it. Hmmmm.... with the evidence in front of her, and after knowing his diet, she told me he might either be 1. allergic to something he ate (so I am to give him one thing at a time) or 2. He may be constipated.

So the verdict today is that he is to eat his FALKAMIN only- a purely protein supplement (ya..as if he would do it) or if he refuses I would have to force-feed him his FALKAMIN for 3 days after which I have to give him only wet food mixed with hot water for 7 days and then one dry food only for the next 7. Needless to say, Toro had vomitted all of his force-fed FALKAMIN. Then he gets to meet the vet again.

I knew FALKAMIN and Toro would be a challenge and indeed it was. I only have 3 days of this to get through. :}

Toro was tired after all that activity and he spent the rest of the time on my bed grooming himself and resting. Meanwhile cousin R and I have some scratches we need to see to :)

Sensitive soul at dinner...

I also brought Ms Akira and asked questions about her frequent vomitting. Since the vet already knew about their habits, toys and food, she said that it could be that she is experiencing some blockage due to some undigested food and whenever she eats, it gets blocked and she would vomit the undigested pellets. She said the only worrying part was she may have irritated her stomach lining and the acid could play havoc with her throat linings too. Then she asked me if Ms Akira was the nervous sort of kitty and she nodded when I said yes. She also asked me if Ms Aira gets bullied. I told the vet that she bullies the other cats. The vet was quite surprised at that. Anyway Ms Akira gets Polysilic Suspension which she needs 30 minutes before food and 1/4 X 2 tablet of Cimetidine 2 hours after food. THAT is going to be a challenge. If I can get through 10 days without Ms AKira killing me, THAT would be something. :/

Ms Akira is supposed to have only 1 dry food for a start...just until we figure out what it is she might be allergic to. She also get Bach Flowers for Aggression :)

By the way, after we got home and after the whole episode of the FALKAMIN, Toro decided he would go to the loo and indeed there were soft stools and yes, I could see a faint trace of blood on them. :(