2 weeks after surgery for Taj

Thanks! He's doing so well!!! He's really responded well to this so well!

Yeah. He's a sweet heart anyway.

I'm not keeping the others from him. He wants in the front room with me, but he does spend most of the day out of the room because I'm not in there.

He really loves his baby food. Now he has to eat a whole can of food before the baby food comes out.

In other words the baby food is his treat now? What is his favorite type of baby food?

Beef, then ham then turkey

Well, its short for Ta Shuah, means "Walks on Snow"

Cool....it a really nice name...thank you

Fiona, Elic forgot to tell you WHY he has that name. In Beijing (so one of my students from there told me), cats who have 4 white paws are called Tah Shueh which means "Walks In Snow." Taj is a 4-white-booties (with the rest of his fur, mostly, being yellow-stripey) kitty. And Elic's right. He IS a really cool kitty. I LOVE that sweet yella fella! Maggiepie

Thanks! I'm so glad Taj is recovering. I've even seen him chase a bug or 2!

Taj is doing really well, I'm so glad that he's recovered so well!

Its worth every penny of that $700+ for the surgery to get him feeling so good! I haven't been to the other vet in almost 3 weeks!

ewww, but then again, I don't like celery! Yeah, mouths heal pretty fast! Already his look pretty in pink instead of raw and red!

I'm not that fond of it either, in huge hunks like that.

I don't like raw celery - AT ALL.

A couple more weeks out and you'd hardly know he ever had surgery - except he doesn't have any teeth! He's doing GREAT!

Does he look any differently or hold his mouth differently?

I did try that earlier this year, when I ran outta wet food, was broke and we had some chicken in the freezer. I have been told by other cat people that have had this done, that their cats eventually get back to eating some kibbles, but you know they aren't going to give up the wet food if they don't have to!

Oh, he is a cool cat! And he loves me. He seems to know that I'm the one that saved him. Actually I saved him twice, at least in his opinion.

He was sitting right next to me when I read your letter and reached down and gave him a pet! He's a happier boy now, tho he's still grumpy a bit, but then he always has been when he didn't get his way!

LOL! Aren't we all though?? (G)!

Oh, he's been getting spoiled for the last 8 months, now we have to start UN-spoiling him!

I've been feeding him the "savory shreds" and he's doing just fine with it. I now have 2 other cats with problems, just not as severe as Taj's and they still have their teeth.

Tony loves those usually. He's gotten bored with them lately so I've been getting tender slices and chunky varieties to get him interested again. He'll go for the same thing for months then refuse to eat it for a while when he gets bored with it but both he and Gizmo tend to turn up their noses at the pate types. They might take a taste but they live 90% or more of it on the plate until I have to get rid of it because it's going bad, dry and smelly. It's good to hear Taj can "chew" some now. My grandfather was a dog breeder years ago. When the older dogs had chewing problems he would use water, milk or raw egg to soak into the food and soften it. Egg not only added protein but it was good for their coat and they loved the taste. We even used it to get them to eat things they usually didn't like. with a good food processor you can grind the shell into the egg extra fine so they can eat it safely and it is a great boost of calcium. I don't know if any of this is helpful with cats but, your vet might agree to some of these tricks to help nutrition if Taj has trouble eating in the future.