Feline Inflammatory Bowel Disease

This sure sounds like what Indy has: https://feline-nutrition.org/health/feline-inflammatory-bowel-disease-nature-and-treatment

The article advises to use bone broth, which we are already doing. Indy loves the bone broth. It also advises to use probiotics, pinch by pinch. We are also doing that.

And finally, to transition to raw food.

All of the above, to heal the gut.

We are doing all that already.

From Fillet Plus, I’m gradually transitioning him back to Cubgrub Chicken.

More and more, I’m beginning to think my raw-feeding friend was right – 11 years of being a kibble-king has taken a toll on Indy’s gut. Of all our cats, he is the one who ate the most kibble simply because he liked it. Of course I made sure he had canned food and raw food too, but the mixture of foods was a REALLY bad idea – it just served to upset the gut even more. I didn’t know how harmful that was back then.

Now I know.

Previously, the rest of our cats only had kibble as snacks, but Indy had them as full meals. Then, there was the mixture of foods as well.

In any case, I hope we have seen the worst now that Indy’s stools are finally firming up.

However, Indy has been acting up these few days ever since his stools started firming up. He is getting very picky because he knows he has a choice now – fillet, Cubgrub or bone broth. He knows he can demand for whatever he fancies and I’ll just have to read his mind. Among the three, if Indy could rank them, his choice is: Bone broth, plain fillet with lots of liver, and if he had no choice, then only Cubgrub.

I would very much prefer to change the ranking to: Cubgrub, Bone broth. Period.

But Indy has always loved liver. He wants to be a vampire and just eat liver. That’s what he has always liked, but he cannot have too much of liver in a day as that might lead to Vit A toxicity.

Tonight, he didn’t care much for his dinner so I decided to let him be. After an hour or so, he started calling for food. I knew he was hungry, so I offered him some Cubgrub. He sniffed at it and walked off.

I know he is hungry and is just acting up.

So, later, I offered some bone broth and he drank that up.

Later again, he came to the kitchen window sill and called for food again.

This time, to emphasize how hungry he is, he jumped down and started licking pebbles.

He is not anaemic. But licking rocks could be a sign of dietary insufficiency. It’s called “pica”.

Yes, Indy, you’ve been eating chicken fillet for too long now, it’s time to go back to Cubgrub.

This is precisely why you must go back to Cubgrub now. It’s balanced.

I’ve been balancing the chicken fillet with liver, heart, bone meal, Vit E and taurine, but without the fish oil and egg yolks because I thought these two supplements could be causing the loose stools. Hence, my Fillet Plus wasn’t exactly completely balanced.

Finally, with some persuasion, he willingly ate some Cubgrub. I know he can eat it, he’s just being picky, that’s all.

It’s going to take awhile to transition him back to Cubgrub, I know.

A challenge….again.

Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2019/11/24/feline-inflammatory-bowe..

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