Let's see, she arrived on the 25th of September with a bad tummy.
Thursday the 29th her sister tested positive so on the 30th I started them both on Panacur (vet) for 5 days, got a bit better with the awful sick smell and after that she got on metronidazole, which she took for 8 days I think. (Time got a bit blurry there) originally it was only for 5 days too but as she had what they guessed were an abscess she was on it longer to get it to go away (which it did) and she got Canikur/pro-kolin for the first week and a half with no improvement at all.
After that she was on a break for a couple of days then on Panacur for 2 days - was supposed to be 5 but I observed no changes only her having a really hard time dealing with everything so I took her off after telling the vet.
In the first 2 weeks they were on Thrive food (wet food in cans).
I then tried raw for around 2 weeks, her tummy got better but she started having a lot of trouble pooing and after she dripped blood one time, I decided to try adding pumpkin puré, salmon oil and extra fiber supplement for Pro-kolin. Nothing helped. (The raw mix was 70% meat 15% organs and 15% bones.) I tried going back to Greenwoods and Thrive, since everyone told me boiled chicken was as basic as you got. She went from too hard to watery.
Then I decided to try some other wetfood, Feringa Kitten. She likes it very much but her poo is still too mushy. The poo barely has shape really - but she stopped bleeding and didn't go as much. In fact her horrendous farting got worse for the first few days, then a lot less now.
For the last week I have mixed raw from the mix I got in her food, which turns the poo solid enough that it looks almost normal but soft enough not to tear on the way out.
Vet has suggested I try a diet for sensitive stomachs (which to them is dry food Hill's, Royal Canin or Virbac) I tried Virbac with Akio but he had zero interest in it.
Most of the time the vet is just really unsure how to take the whole raw thing, keeps telling me she doesn't think it's a good idea and that the ones they've had on it came in with broken bones because they didn't get enough calcium at all. I tell them I feed a popular Danish brand of dry food for my boy and they use say they don't know it.
I'm now looking into getting a mix without bones at all - easier said than done.
If I could chose, I'd want her on wet food, because I have close to no freeze storage space and will easily lose track of thawing (just a fact). My kitchen is incredibly small - people always note how much fridge and stove is specially made miniature to fit the small space.
I might try the dry food - vet said try for 7 days, if there's no improvement that's the wrong way.
Also said to give pro-kolin everyday so I'll definitely be doing that.
I'm bonding with her :) She's a curious one but also very shy when it comes to new stuff and people.
I am picking her up though and in the beginning she did not like it at all but now she is content to relax on my arm if I pick her up (I feel it is important to be able to pick her up, especially as their insatiable curiousity tend to get them in precarious spots).
She would violently flinch if my head came closeto her, but I'I've encouraged her with treats and persistence (don't really know how to describe it, I suppose it's just how I give affection, I kiss them on the head) and now she barely flinches at all and most times she'll only ignore it.
She tends to want to suckle on my boy though, if he's lying in a particular way and she is feeling sleepy or drowsy. I haven't done anything about it since I think it is up to them and her way to find comfort. She will come lie under the duvet most nights but only stays there for around 20 minutes. Akio has picked it up with zeal and sometimes he'll wander around, meowing, until I put him under there.
Actually she's the one who gets to sleep on top of the covers, closest to me when they sleep - they'll usually switch around a bit do it's not everyday. Sometimes she'll want to sleep elsewhere.
She doesn't talk much really, and her tail is not straight up most of the time, as Akio's is. She doesn't really purr much either. I do worry about it a lot.
Hope this helps a bit, any more details I'll give as fast as I can
Oh! I try never to scold but will say no in a stern way or hiss if one does something wrong - like attacking my feet. Sometimes I have to separate them or a few minutes as I can barely give Luna any treats / Akio will clamp onto me like a leech. Sometimes. Do close the door to the bedroom(me in it) at night if they're playing rough in the living room while I try to sleep.
I know she is a bit jumpy and very careful so I try not to do stuff she doesn't like.
She loves to play on her own though, with stuffed mice and such - will even growl at Akio if he tres to join in, fierce little girl.
My friend said to do things on her own terms while also trying not to treat her with less love than Akio gets - pretty hard to do both, as Akio is so different and purrs as soon as I touch him. I do really want that with Luna, but I was also the one who had to hold her and put pills down her throat (crafty girl would chuck them up, so I figure I just lift her some each day and in time she'll see it is not so bad) I don't think she inherently doesn't like to be lifted since she hasn't acted aggressively toward me when I do it except right in the beginning. She does not like if I close in on her with two hands or turn her over a bit, but she is beginning to see there is no harm. Everyday I work hard at letting her know I don't want to harm her, but I know she still remembers the bad pill days of me holding her and her fighting to get away from the pills - darn vet didn't tell me I could get it in fluid form unto, the second round of Panacur -.-
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