Greetings all,

1st thanks for all of the kind replies.  I have joined the Yahoo CRF
board and have been cruising the tons of CRF websites - all very
helpful.

Fats is now on her 5th day of liquid therapy, no issues with giving the
sub Q injections - I am used to using needles and she tolerates it
fine.

She still is not eating much.  The presciption stuff has not been
touched, neither the modified or k/d, dry or canned.  I mixed it
together with other food that she used to eat, and it remains
untouched.

Over the last few days she has eaten maybe 3/4 of an ounce of wet food
(meow mix pouches) and about 15-20 pieces of Pounce tartar control
salmon treats.  Since this is not even close to the 250-300 calories a
cat needs, I have also been giving her some nutrigel supplement.  This
is the stuff that comes in a toothpaste tube.  She doesn't eat, it, I
wipe a blob of it in her mouth in the morning and at night.

I know it is early in the fluid therapy, and her appetite may retun in
the next week or so.  If not, I am going to suggest to my vet to
prescribe some Cypro and see what her thoughts are on giving a 1/4 tab
of pepcid to help settle Fatty's stomach.

As usual, otherwise the cat is happy and social and looks like the
picture of health, although a bit bony if you pet her.  (she is down to
9 lbs - I know this is not bad, but this was an 11-12 pound cat just a
year ago.)

What do you think?  Should I be force feeding more food (I could shove
some of the wet k/d in her mouth if I had too, I think), or wait it out
another couple of days to see if the appetite returns?

Bluesman