Many cans of catfood are marketted as “slices of turkey/chicken/beef/tuna/mastodon/whatever in GRAVY.” Koshka loves the gravy pretty much invariably. Sadly, the special medicinal catfood for kidney does not have any such gravy in it, and she just plain doesn’t like it. So the obvious solution is to mix the gravy in with the special food. But there’s not enough of the gravy in a regular can of catfood to make that effective, and damned if I can find the same sort of gravy available on it’s own.
Catfood “gravy” appears to be a translucent jelly-like substance, presumably meat flavored. It’s quite a bit different from the normal turkey and beef gravy I’ve bought in the grocery stores, which seems to be a runny substance filled with fat. Sadly, Koshka doesn’t like *this* stuff either. So what the hell is “cat food gravy,” and where can I obtain it in larger quantities?
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If you enter “cat food gravy recipe” into Google, it will bring up recipes for it, like this one:
http://www.ehow.com/way_5187405_cat-gravy-recipe.html
Another thing…when I have a sore throat, I find that cool foods like ice cream are a lot less irritating than normal stuff.
Since cats like milk and cream, have you tried to feed her something along the line of a milk shake or ice cream? She could lick at it and get her nutrition slowly that way.
I think your plan for sticking the tube down her throat and shooting the food in is a really good way to get the living hell bitten or clawed out of your hands. 😉
If you are going to try that, you should figure out some way to immobilize the cat’s body during the process, like putting it in a heavy bag of some kind with just the head projecting through a hole.
Last year, one of my cat’s had a bad sinus infection. I picked up some cat gravy from PetsMart and fed him meat based baby food. This did the trick. Also, don’t forget to make sure she gets plenty of water. At first, I had to squirt water from a syringe into his mouth (until he got better).
http://www.hillspet.com/products/prescription-diet/pd-feline-kd-with-chicken-feline-canned.html
I mixed it with water and pumped it into the side of the mouth with a plastic syringe.
>I mixed it with water and pumped it into the side of the mouth with a plastic syringe.
I’ve got the same KD catfood, and tried the same trick this AM. Utter failure, because she was able to spit it right back out. What a mess.
I bought a can of beef gravy today that she seems to like, and mixed that with some KD… and she was able to somehow lick up the gravy and leave the KD behind. Grrrr.
We have to use the KD too. We mix it up 1/2 and 1/2 with the 9 lives. Goes over well with the cats, especially the first day we open the 9 lives.
I think you need to throw the ingrdients into a blender and make it something she can lap up. if its thick, then put some on your finger and put a little bit on the roof of her mouth or on her nose.
Water is good, but Pedialite is better, too much water can be bad and throw off her electrolytes. In the shelter we had a cat that took a year to get better and required an IV of normal saline everyday. I put the needle in the loose skin between the shoulders and he’d have a little hump on his back for about 20 min. before it got absorbed. He lived and was adopted!
Does she like sweet stuff? mixed the med food with some honey or something sticky so it sticks to her nose, she’ll have to lick it off! no cat in the world can have anything on their nose, how embarassing
JP wrote:
“I think you need to throw the ingrdients into a blender and make it something she can lap up. if its thick, then put some on your finger and put a little bit on the roof of her mouth or on her nose.”
Remember, the cat is suffering pain from just drinking milk; you stick your finger in its mouth and it’s you, not the cat, that will be needing medical aid.
I’m keen to hear the results of any attempt to shove a tube down her throat, but I’m sure Scott can take a month or two off from building prototype models for the reconstructive surgery on his hands. I’ve heard a big toe makes a good replacement for a thumb. 🙂
MD required for our older cat for control of his diabities, I mix the gravy from something like “Friskies” Meat and Gravy line but I get mixed results on the amount of gravy available. (Split the rest three ways for the other cats)
At one point in time at Pet Smart or some such I found a bottle of “dog” food gravy that our cat liked and actually ate, but it was hit and miss I couldn’t find it the next time I went in. (May have been Pet-Co I can’t recall ATM) Mix whatever you use thouroghly. (Not so much a blender but get damn repatative with the fork/spoon and keep at it for a few minutes. This also breaks up the MD/KD and makes it more a paste. Which is easier to down)
Randy