Yay. Ish.

[telophase]

Got the results of Nefer's culture back: she has, basically, two UTIs, i.e. two different sets of bacteria present in abnormally high numbers. The good news: the antibiotic injection she got is effective for one of them. The bad news: the other one needs an antibiotic that only comes in pills or liquid.

However! We had made the discovery last week that we can give Nefer a (very tiny, very crumbly) anti-nausea pill wrapped up in bread, and she will eat it. So I picked pills, and Toby dropped by the vet on the way home to pick them up. And yes: Nefer will eat an antibiotic pill if it is encapsulated in a squishy bread pill.

So we now have a loaf of bread bought solely for the cat, of the squishiest bread we could find that we could also tolerate if, for example, one of us needed to make a sandwich in an emergency. (i.e., generic wheat balloon bread, but not quite as fluffy and insubstantial as Wonder Bread.)

Nefer is happy that we have started this habit of randomly giving her pieces of bread. Sora is convinced that we are somehow giving her treats and not him, even though we let him sniff the bread and he does not recognize it as food. So he occasionally gets an empty Pill Pocket, because we don't want him to associate Pill Pockets with vets or medicine.

Comments

[yhlee]

May Nefer get better soon!

Hahaha breadcats. =)

[telophase]

Thank you! :D

(Nefer will CUT YOU for a stale Ritz cracker!)

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Hee! We had a cat when I was a kid who was obsessed with bagels. You couldn't leave a bag on the counter, because she would chew through it so she could eat a bagel. She was originally called Shenandoah for where we rescued her as a flea-ridden starved kitten, but shortly became 'Bagels'. Only cat I ever knew who thought of bread as food; we kind of wondered if that was some of the only food available in the house when her owners moved out and abandoned them.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I got Nefer when she was about a year old, and don't know much about her early life, other than we found a BB embedded in her tail on a recent X-ray. It took her YEARS to recognize that there was food other than dry kibble, bread products, and tuna, and even longer to realize that food comes from the kitchen. She now will occasionally eat wet food, but really prefers kibble, stale Ritz crackers, saltines, and bread. She will also occasionally eat part of a French fry and has started licking the ice cream at the bottom of my bowl when I'm done. (I eat Lactaid brand ice cream, so no lactose worries for either of us!)

[thornsilver]

My cat likes Challah bread. I forgot to put it away once, came back to holes in the plastic bag and the loaf nibbled at all sides.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heh! That's happened before with Nefer--it's how we figured out that she was getting up on the counter, because we discovered nibbling.