Re: Lucy update - baby food and calcium ratio
I've heard of people giving Bean-o to dogs, is that okay for cats too? If it's okay, maybe you could add just the tiniest squirt to her baby food. The vet on the IBD list was kind enough to send me the recipe for adding calcium and B vita to baby food to make it more complete when I was assist feeding Gypsy. Here's a paste from her email to me: Your other option would be to syringe feed her plain meat baby food...but add some calcium and B-complex vitamins. I finally got a chance to do some calculations for adding calcium carbonate to baby food. A 2.5 ounce jar needs about 50 mg of calcium added. The NOW brand of calcium carbonate has 1,200 mg per tsp...which makes it very difficult to calculate properly. However, you could combine 6 jars of food and then that would require 300 mg which would be 1/4 tsp of the NOW CC. Other brands have different amounts of elemental calcium in each tsp so you need to pay attention to that. Here are some links to the NOW brand of CC. http://www.nowcatalog.com/1245.html http://www.iherb.com/calcarbo.html You also need to add some B-Complex. Use 10-20 mg per 6 jars of baby food. They come in 50mg capsules so use just a portion of the capsule. If syringe feeding, go with 10 mg - or less - because you do not want to create a food aversion. Taste it yourself to test it. B vitamins are strong tasting. If using a feeding tube, I would go with the 20 mg/6 jars of baby food. I would also add in enough taurine to provide 60 mg/day. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. My mom did research on the net and told me cats can get liquid di-gel for gas. Is that the same thing? My mom also read an article saying corn causes gas, and there is corn starch in the baby food, so maybe that is it. I am trying to find somewhere that sells Beechnut, which is just turkey and water, though in the past she would not eat that anyway. Michelle In a message dated 7/15/2006 3:01:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ask your vet about giving her simethecon for gas. There are baby drop versions of Gas X that can be used. I used them with Kitty Katt when she permitted and it helped. Pepsid also helped with discomfort.
Re: Lucy update - baby food and calcium ratio
Yeah, I had heard on a radio program on cat's health and nutrition that taurine is so very important. The speaker even said that she thought it was a great immune booster. If Lucy is eating the baby food with the FF added in, that's great! Gypsy wouldn't touch the raw food with that and I had to add sups separately. I would definitely add the taureen though. N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Nina, as always! I actually am just mixing in her raw food supplement from Feline Futures, which is meant to be added to boneless raw meat and so has the necessary calcium. It also has B vitamins added. I am also adding some of the Nu-cat vitamins which I got based on your turkey mush recipe. I will look at the porportions recommended in the email, though-- I had not thought about it, but they probably are different, at least the B vitamins, when the meat is cooked like in baby food. Also, I probably should add taurine, come to think of it, since that is not in the raw food supplement because it doesn't need to be. Thanks, Michelle
