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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2015 19:52:26 GMT -5
Well I decided to try the chicken slivers today. Mozart seems to be definitely more interested than Daisy. He actually took a few bits, Daisy I had to scruff and stuff and she still spit it out. I did mix a few in their soup and they did seem interested. Mozart ate but Daisy held off but would eat off a spoon. Will try again later tonight. Mozart's blood glucose seems to be doing well. Did a toe nail at 6:30 pm and it was 125 and he got his prednisolone at 10:30ish this morning. Best number yet. Of course he had eaten the few slivers a few hours before this. So far so good
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Post by Celene on Jan 11, 2015 21:54:00 GMT -5
Please let me know if you figure anything out on the sliver front. My Mocha girl is just like Daisy - she refuses to even sniff the slivers and when I try S&S she just spits it right out.
What I have been doing is cutting chicken into really small pieces (not slivers, just tiny/small pieces) and mixing them into their commercial grind. Mocha will still spit a bunch out (onto the floor beside the bowl) when she comes across them, but every so often I will see her chewing away before either spitting or swallowing (no jokes, please) so I know she's eating at least a couple. It's probably harder with soup since the pieces will not blend in as well as with a firmer ground meat texture. Maybe try thickening the soup to a paste (not sure if that's possible, never made soup) and cut the pieces REALLY small and they will be better disguised.
Good luck!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2015 22:12:10 GMT -5
I think it is going to be a battle of wills. Daisy was resistant on the soup when we started and still would prefer to eat off a spoon instead of the bowl. But she is getting better. Her weight is holding at least. She has adrenal and kidney disease. Te vet believes she has cancer but it just can't be found on ultrasound. We made our first goal of gettin her past Christmas. Now we are aiming for Easter(fingers crossed). Her last recheck last month showed her kidneys holding thanks to Sc fluids daily. She originally was 2 pounds and went down to one. She now weighs 1.8 lbs. I weigh her every few days. Her hair loss had stopped and she was actually getting hair back, but now she has started losing hair in her tail and belly over the past two weeks. Her next scheduled check up is in March. Hoping she makes it until then. I have made it clear to my family that as long as she holds, I will keep going but if she starts to worsen in her blood values or quality of life, I will stop. She gets 70 mls of fluids daily and she handles it well. If I have any luck, I will let you know. They both do like salmon oil mixed in their soup.
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Post by Celene on Jan 11, 2015 22:16:06 GMT -5
Mocha loves salmon oil too. At first she would lick the oil off the slivers until she realized I was trying to trick her into eating them, and now she straight up refuses. Poor Daisy, she's so luck she has you caring for her and working so hard to get her healthy! A quick, easy and healthy way to fatten up ferrets is with eggs
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2015 22:20:48 GMT -5
Eggs? How?
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Post by Celene on Jan 11, 2015 22:40:27 GMT -5
Raw eggs. You can introduce them the same way you did soup. Feed either just the yolk or the whole egg, but not just the whites on their own. My girls LOVE them. You can also mix them in directly to the soup. I would say no more than 1/2 an egg each to start, 1-3 times a week (or the equivalent of an egg each a week).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 5:00:41 GMT -5
I can pick up some quail eggs for them and try
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 6:23:54 GMT -5
I've tried chicken with Percy a few times now, He just doesn't seem to like it. I don't blame him I'm not a fan of chicken either!
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Post by Celene on Jan 12, 2015 10:34:11 GMT -5
@abster, did you have better luck starting with slivers of another protein? I don't eat red meat (including pork) so I don't have any around to cut extras for slivers and didn't considerate, but I could always go out and buy some and freeze the extra.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 13:42:29 GMT -5
@abster, did you have better luck starting with slivers of another protein? I don't eat red meat (including pork) so I don't have any around to cut extras for slivers and didn't considerate, but I could always go out and buy some and freeze the extra. I should say Percy is on a 100% meat diet and I'm sure he eats better than I do! He loves eggs, scrambled or raw. All other meat he enjoys, kidneys, heart, liver, pigeon, rabbit, pheasant, lamb, beef, pork and white fish. It's just chicken, But like I say no loss as I don't really like it!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 15:49:42 GMT -5
Well for lunch I gave very little soup and more slivers of chicken. Mozart ate it very readily, Daisy even took some bites and did not spit them out! Mozart even ate more chucks off my finger. I will just do the same for dinner tonight before bed and see how it goes in the morning
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Post by Celene on Jan 12, 2015 16:20:08 GMT -5
@techgirl, how did you cut the slivers? I take forever to cut even a small amount even though my knife seems pretty sharp Maybe I'll sit down in front of the TV tonight with a cutting board and some chicken. I feel like I'd have more success if I was able to cut chicken into REALLY tiny pieces, but it just seems to take a really long time to cut a really small amount.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 16:30:17 GMT -5
I have meat scissors that are very sharp
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Post by Celene on Jan 12, 2015 18:04:44 GMT -5
Like poultry shears? I was thinking of picking some up, but I wanted to get a meat cleaver too but the cookware store near my home doesn't have any in stock.
Maybe I'll buy some shears now since I'm not doing bone-in yet anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 18:48:35 GMT -5
Yes that is what they are, poultry shears. Perfect to get tiny thin slivers
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