Happy Cat Family

Hello folks, Hope here to report that Meowmy got a job! 
YEAH! 

As you know, she was unemployed for a long time and lately she was pretty down and depressed… Some of you must remember when the three of us got sick at the same time and she didn’t know what to do… poor meowmy! Well… Those times are finally over! Yeaaaaahh!

She got this great job, doing what she loves, in what she calls “her industry”!

We kitties need to get used to it though, as she will be travelling quite often now. She was actually out for the first two weeks; she just came back a couple of days ago… Well I am lying – she did come back for the weekend, but still!

We do have a neighbor come to feed us in the morning, and our vet tech come in the afternoon… She looooves us, and we love her too! She is so sweet – she plays with us, feeds us, and also gives brother Bugsy his meds everyday… She is a sweetheart! <3

Meowmy also has the kitty cam running 24x7 now, so not only she can see us all the time, but our friends at the Cat Site were checking on us and telling meowmy what was going on with us throughout the day, so meowmy felt much better about being away… If anything happened she could just call a neighbor or something! Now that she is making the green papers again she is even looking into getting a better camera – yey!

When she is not travelling, she will be working from home, so we will be with her a lot too, which is nice… But the bottom line is that she is HAPPY again! She is our meowmy, healthy and happy again… and that is priceless, no matter where she is! We know she will take care of us!

We are all so happy for meowmy! Woohoo!

Oh, and by the way, I am all better, 100% healthy, still loving my food full of energy, as well as I could be!

Happy Birthday ML for all you do, for truly caring for all us kitties, and for helping us so much when we needed more than you can possibly imagine... Thank you from the bottom of our kitties hearts, and meowmy's too!

Bugsy's favorite daytime nap spot... Actually both Bugsy and Hope love this hide out "Secret Cave"!

Hello Friends, Hope here!
First let me just apologize for meowmy... She has been a really bad girl and has taken a sweet time posting an update on me... Bad meowmy! 
Well, I was not doing so good for a while there... On venison I had violent diarrhea, on Duck Bugsy had diarrhea (he is allergic to chicken and used to sneak in and eat some of my food)... And also I completely hated those natural balance foods (Bugsy loved it)...
I gave meowmy a lot of trouble eating until that last week I stopped eating again when meowmy was out of town... My energy was not good, I was hiding again and just not happy... Meowmy got worried with me and decided to try a different food to see if I liked it. 
My only option with my tummy problems? Hills prescription Z/D. 
Friends, let me tell you that did it... That was a complete turn around! First of all..... I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the food (meowmy.... not so much... but I DO! I DO!)! I lick my plate clean every time, and meow desperately every time meowmy is making my food - I am making meowmy proud!
In the poop department, in the matter of a day or two it became ALL better!
Once I started eating this food, my energy is back, I am playing, and I wake up meowmy on her bed every day.
I can say that this food brought me back to feeling a 100% better... No joke. Of course the medicine helped me too but the difference since I started eating the food was dramatic, like from night to day. I think because the other food was making me feel sick, perhaps? 
Meowmy's pocket.... not so happy! But if that is what it takes, she said she is happy to do it... She doesn't like the ingredients too much, but she says as long as it is working... That is what matters! 
Anyways, Here are a couple of pictures of me and sissy Lucky enjoying the sun today! 
Thank you so much for checking on us!

Hi, Hope here!
I love sissy Lucky soooo much, I just have to hang out with her all the time - I even squeeze my way into the same cat tree perch some times... She doesn't look too excited about it in the pictures, but I know how to bribe her with enough licks and kisses... You know, everybody's got a price!

Pee Ess: I am feeling better... I was eating Royal Canin Green Pea and Duck and meowmy changed me to Natural Balance Green Pea and Duck because of the the Price... so far so good... I am not all better yet, but I am feeling ok. I don't like taking medicine everyday, but I know it is for the best... I hope I don't need to go back to the vet for a long long time... 
I am still hiding a bit, meowmy says I need to improve my poop (meowmy is poop obsessed!)! But I am a whole lot better, and now with the diet and the fiber, I think I will be fine. Oh, meowmy also re-ordered probiotics, that we had ran out... So that will be good too! 
Sooooo........ I think I will be all good pretty soon you guys! Thanks for the support again!

Hi Folks, meowmy here!
Hope spent the day at the vet yesterday... They ran a bunch of tests - a complete blood panel, X-rays, fecal (both float and smear), and all came back normal. She made up like a champ, I just felt bad for her fasting for nearly 24 hours... But... she made it, and was spoiled rotten when she got home <3
The only thing out of the ordinary was the heart murmur 2/6, but no signs of heart disease or enlarged heart, or anything to worry about right now.
Their conclusion? She very VERY likely has IBD. Of course this can be only diagnosed 100% with a biopsy but everything points on that direction.
They put her on 20 days of Prednisone Syrup, and told me to continue to feed her a one meat, one starch diet, and add a fiber supplement to her food which I am adding Vetasyl- she loves the taste...
I am transitioning her from Royal Canin Prescription to Natural Balance, as it is 1/2 of the price and same protein, sam starches. 
She is doing much much better.... 
For the first time today she woke me up on bed! This is a BIG deal! April 1st when she didn't wake me on bed was when I knew something was wrong - now 19 days later I know my girl is finally back!
I know she still has a little bit to go but she is doing good and now I know what we are dealing with... I am so very relieved! If only she knew how much she is loved!
Thank you folks for all the support, and the love you showed for my girl - I hope from now on it will only be good news for a while.... a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG while!

Hi Folks Meowmy here!
Yep you read it right this was visit 1 of 2... Hope will have to go back on Monday, for further testing. 
The suspicion is really IBS, but the doctor wants to rule other things as well, and since I am not going to go on the biopsy route, I do believe this is a good idea.
They do have a lab in-house, but she wanted to run more precise tests, in an outside lab, and discuss them with a vet cytologist. He only works on Monday, which will be Hope's vet visit 2 of 2 :). 
Monday she will have a fecal, a complete blood panel, and possibly an X-ray. Why an X-ray? Because she heard a murmur on her heart... 
I do think Hope was just extremely stressed the poor thing was shaking so stressed she was! In any event the vet will ask a second vet's opinion and if they think there is a murmur they will run an x-ray.
Hope doesn't fit the profile for murmur though - she is just about the highest energy kitty in the planet! Well, before April 1st that is!
Anyways, now she wants her to be only on a blend diet, but not on meds to get a good baseline on the tests which makes her have bad bad diarrhea :(
My poor child... I just hope it is something simple... 

Hello folks, Hope here!
Thank you for keeping checking on me, meowmy and I appreciate it very much! 
Well, I am feeling much much better but I am not all better yet, so meowmy decided to take me to our other vet for a consult and some testing. She is pretty sure the first vet is right about IBS, but she also wants to rule out other things, and wants to try a different treatment since this one is not really working for my poop situation. 
Well, don't take me wrong... I have come a loooooong way... I was feeling really really really bad when I started this treatment: I was hiding 100% of the time for a week, I was not eating, and having explosive diarrhea... I was a sick, sick kitty... 
Now the only thing that is not normal is that I still have diarrhea, and a lot of gas... but I am playing, eating (even though I do think this food is truly yucky), and I am not hiding anymore - at all. 
Meowmy just wants to make sure I am being treated for the right thing and there is nothing else behind this. 
Anyways, I will tell meowmy to post an update as soon as we come back from the vet - I hope it is not too painful... I don't like things being stuck on me, and I heard meowmy saying she wants to do a blood test or something like that. Oh boy. 

Hope here!
Hello folks! I am finally starting to really feel better! Not completely better but a lot better! Meowmy changed my food from venison to Duck yesterday and since then no more explosive diarrhea, I have a lot more energy and if you can believe I even started playing chase with sissy Lucky today! I also don't feel like hiding at all anymore, which makes meowmy feel really happy :D
I am still pooping soft poops, but they are not watery anymore and I went only once today too! Big improvement! 
Meowmy doesn't know for sure if it is the food alone or a combination of the food change and Amforol that she is now giving it to me 3x a day,  or if it is all a coincidence... but the fact is that coincidence or not, we sure are sticking to that plan. 
My kitty brain thinks it is not a coincidence... because nothing was working before, not even Amforol, Metro or anything. I think my tummy didn't like bambies after all... Maybe they are just too cute for me, who knows?!
Meowmy made an appointment with the other vet in case I don't get better, because they fill up quickly, for Saturday... If I get much much better by Thursday she will cancel, if I don't, I will go in... But I finally feel that I am turning the corner, and that the consult might really not be necessary - we will see... cross your paws for me!

Hi, Meowmy here!
First of all, thank you so much for all the love, prayers, and purrs... It has been very special and comforting to receive all the messages, and know that we have been on your thoughts and prayers... Thank you so much for your support <3
Hope's situation has been very confusing and frustrating... Today was day 6 of Metronidazole, and she is still having explosive diarrhea. Luckily, she is only pooping once a day, but this once is nothing as it should be this far at the treatment. 
She is definitely feeling much better overall - she is no longer hiding... Not yet playing chase, but is hanging on the living room and on the window sill. She is eating normally, grooming, and she does play a little with the turboscratcher and the flingama string
I called her vet today, and he said to give her another 5 days of metronidazole, and if she doesn't get better, to take her to a specialist for a biopsy and an ultrasound. 
He also told me to Start giving her Amforol again, to control the diarrhea, and even though I do not like that medicine as it makes her poop like white cement, I do think this time might be necessary.
I am worried, and don't want to think about this biopsy business... I do think I might take her for my other vet first, if this treatment doesn't work, for a second opinion, before doing something that drastic. 
I do think a blood test and x-ray can be helpful before biopsy, and if so, I would like to do that first. But first things first... I will hope and pray for these 5 extra days of metro to work... The clock is ticking...
Thank you again for your support. 

Hi, 
Hope here... I have been sick again... Remember this? It is back... At least that is what meowmy and my vet, Santa Claus, think it is... All I know is that I have been hiding under meowmy' bed since last Thursday, and today was my first day out - meowmy was so happy I came out, she took this picture to post here in the bloggie... But I am already hiding again... I didn't fee like eating at all, and the runs came back... I don't feel like playing, and when I play a little, I have no energy. 
Santa Claus (my vet) thinks I have IBD, and put me on a special diet now - I can only eat one thing forever, he says... meowmy says it is bamby... That's quite mean :-/ 
I am also taking that bitter, bitter, nasty, nasty medicine again, and hopefully I will get better soon... I heard meowmy leave a message to another vet, something about a second opinion/diagnostics if I don't get better... My vet, Santa, wanted to sent me to the Hospital for something that sounded complicated- a biopsy and a ultrasound, but that he was pretty sure by my history that what I have is IBD, and most likely a sensitivity to fish (meowmy was giving me Freeze dried Salmon treats when I got sick). So they decided to treat me first, and if I don't get better, go for more diagnostics. Please please I want get better... I don't want to go to another vet again! They do mean things and stick things in places they really shouldn't... please please I want to get better...  
Please folks, purr for me... I don't feel so good... :(