Newt had a pretty stable day today. Minor drool this AM, ate breakfast, lunch and dinner snacks. Not full veggie/chicken mix meals, just chicken, but at least he ate. Slept peacefully most of the day in his nest. (No, not the crochet cat bed work in progress, but rather his very own, red feathered, Newt Nest.
Eyes bright, active when out and about. In fact, he’s foraging the counters right now, searching for morsels of yums. Minimal clumsiness, no ataxia, diarrhea in the litter, so it seems the Lactulose has finally kicked things into high gear. Backing off now on the dose.
His new antibiotic prescription should be in tomorrow. His vet is switching him to Neomycin, after having been on the Amoxicillin for a year. As I understand it, the Neomycin is not absorbed from the intestines so it should be more effective than the Amoxicillin at keeping the gut flora off-kilter and better to minimize ammonia production. Oh, and yet another reason why we love our vet? On her own, she had the pharmacy compound the Neomycin in Newt’s favorite flavor … CHICKEN!!!
I seem to recall that at least a couple of our shunt cats are on the Neomycin. A couple are on Clavamox, and a couple are on periodic antibiotics instead of daily. Amazing how the varied approaches are being tailored to each cat’s situation.
Dare we hope that perhaps Pookie will be stable and able to enjoy his birthday tomorrow?