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I counteract the watering down by adding a teaspoon of
Nutri-Cal to the mix, it bumps the calories back up without thickening it up too
much to syringe. She may even lick the Nutri-Cal off your finger on her own,
sometimes mine do that when I ask them nicely and make a big fuss over it being
"such an yummy yummy treat!"
Jenn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You may want to syringe her a bit more, an adult cat needs between 5.5 and 6.0 ounces of food to maintain their body weight, although tiny cats like my Shelbee don't eat anywhere near that much (Shelbee weights about 7 pounds). You may want to stick with the 100ccs of food, because if you mix the food with water to thin it out (I'm speaking about AD here), a can works out to be around 200 or so ccs. So even if you are giving her around 100 it is only about half of what she needs. Since she isn't feeling well from the URI you don't want her to get weaker from not getting enough calories and make it that much harder to bounce back once the URI starts clearing up. |
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