After several visits to the vet it has been determined that I will always be making wet cat food into a gravy so Mr. T can eat. He is only with us a couple of months now, and had issues even before us. He has trouble eating food. They had him on dry food at the shelter and we switched him over to canned food since his gums were extremely inflamed and swollen. He's had antibiotics and steroids and has improved greatly but every 1 1/2 weeks he shows signs of not being able to eat even his gravy. He has to have steroid injections every two weeks due to the condition he has in his mouth. Besides a growth that has gotten smaller the vet also thinks he may have that condition that he is allergic to his own teeth - the few that are remaining. After the injection, he eats fine - as long as I make it into thin gravy - so I first put the canned food into my Krups grinder with some water and then after dishing it out I add even more water. I sprinkle it with lysine (he also has feline herpes under control).
When he's ok, he 'eats' a good amount of food - 6 + ounces in AM, another 6+ mid afternoon, and another 6+ PM, probably I would assume because it is so thin it's not filling him up. He's also quite finicky, but I've found enough variety to keep him happy. Before I go to bed I even leave him more because he gets hungry in the night. We start at 5ishAM then other half of breakfast around 7ish, then 2 or 3PM, then 6 and 7PM then around midnight. Seems like alot, but he can't ingest it all at one time. Every once in awhile, he'll try and eat small pieces of chicken or scrambled egg.
It also seems that where ever he lived before, the person gave him sweets - he tried his best to eat a bite of my pancakes with maple syrup, and then he went to the plate of pecan pie filling that was left on the plate.
Do you think there is any something perhaps made with honey or...? that I could give him?
Or, in general, any ideas how to help our sweetheart. (He has come a long way - must have been abused, cause when we first got him he was quite aggressive now he hangs out with us and lets us pet him). Has those big eyes that when he looks at us we melt!
When he's ok, he 'eats' a good amount of food - 6 + ounces in AM, another 6+ mid afternoon, and another 6+ PM, probably I would assume because it is so thin it's not filling him up. He's also quite finicky, but I've found enough variety to keep him happy. Before I go to bed I even leave him more because he gets hungry in the night. We start at 5ishAM then other half of breakfast around 7ish, then 2 or 3PM, then 6 and 7PM then around midnight. Seems like alot, but he can't ingest it all at one time. Every once in awhile, he'll try and eat small pieces of chicken or scrambled egg.
It also seems that where ever he lived before, the person gave him sweets - he tried his best to eat a bite of my pancakes with maple syrup, and then he went to the plate of pecan pie filling that was left on the plate.
Do you think there is any something perhaps made with honey or...? that I could give him?
Or, in general, any ideas how to help our sweetheart. (He has come a long way - must have been abused, cause when we first got him he was quite aggressive now he hangs out with us and lets us pet him). Has those big eyes that when he looks at us we melt!