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Tonight was check-up night for the cats.
Baldur: 12 lbs 14 oz, down half a pound since June (which in turn was down from before that). It's hard to believe the Hoover cat is under 13 pounds! Temperature normal, pulse around 240 -- hard to tell exactly because he was agitated. Vet suspects hyperthyroid, completing the household set if so. We'll know more in a few days.
Erik: 7 lbs 4.5 oz, down half a pound since July, pulse 180, temperature normal (101.8 for both of them, actually). He also has a small growth just under the skin on his spine (thought it was a vertebrae when I was petting him a few days ago, then realized not). This is the only detectable growth and the vet says it could well be "nothing", but we'll pay attention to it. She was going to stick a needle in to, err, withdraw something that would be testable? But it has a bluish tinge, meaning there's probably blood in there, so she wants to see what tonight's blood-test results look like first.
Embla: 8 lbs 11.5 oz, down a pound since March. (My vet said "I'm coning to your house". I said "clearly it doesn't work on humans, or at least on me".) Pulse 180, temperature 99.7 (seems low but the vet wasn't concerned). Also had a tapeworm segment (could that explain weight loss? not all of it), so everyone got medicine for that. Hyperthyroidism can recur even after radiation treatment, but she's not showing other signs, like high pulse, so that's probably not the problem.
None of my cats will take NutriCal without a big fight (meaning more of it gets on me than in them). They're getting as much food as they want. (Only Erik gets significant quantities of canned food right now.) Embla and Baldur aren't underweight, but the weight change in all of them is still a concern. Behavior is normal all around (well, normal for each individual cat). Hmm.
Baldur: 12 lbs 14 oz, down half a pound since June (which in turn was down from before that). It's hard to believe the Hoover cat is under 13 pounds! Temperature normal, pulse around 240 -- hard to tell exactly because he was agitated. Vet suspects hyperthyroid, completing the household set if so. We'll know more in a few days.
Erik: 7 lbs 4.5 oz, down half a pound since July, pulse 180, temperature normal (101.8 for both of them, actually). He also has a small growth just under the skin on his spine (thought it was a vertebrae when I was petting him a few days ago, then realized not). This is the only detectable growth and the vet says it could well be "nothing", but we'll pay attention to it. She was going to stick a needle in to, err, withdraw something that would be testable? But it has a bluish tinge, meaning there's probably blood in there, so she wants to see what tonight's blood-test results look like first.
Embla: 8 lbs 11.5 oz, down a pound since March. (My vet said "I'm coning to your house". I said "clearly it doesn't work on humans, or at least on me".) Pulse 180, temperature 99.7 (seems low but the vet wasn't concerned). Also had a tapeworm segment (could that explain weight loss? not all of it), so everyone got medicine for that. Hyperthyroidism can recur even after radiation treatment, but she's not showing other signs, like high pulse, so that's probably not the problem.
None of my cats will take NutriCal without a big fight (meaning more of it gets on me than in them). They're getting as much food as they want. (Only Erik gets significant quantities of canned food right now.) Embla and Baldur aren't underweight, but the weight change in all of them is still a concern. Behavior is normal all around (well, normal for each individual cat). Hmm.
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We've had good results with L-Glutamine (http://www.gnc.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2133643&cp=2168524.2169543) as well.
Standard disclaimers apply: Yates's problem tends to be not retaining enough food, and he's a lot younger than your cats, so talk to your vet blah blah blah.
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You might try that for the NutriCal. A teaspoon or so doesn't provide too many calories for most cats.
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