Sorry for the lack of updates. And thank you for the messages - Elizabeth and Carlton especially. Milo has been steady, really steady - no weight loss and doing ok. So we got more supplies from the vet and kept up the SQ Fluids. We have not been anxious to get blood tests since he has been doing ok, and since we are doing everything, absolutely everything we can. Milo is happy and relaxed. Yes he is relatively skinny looking but its not getting worse and I think that is pretty good. Thank you for the support - it means alot. It really does.

Milo remains stable, happy, relaxed. He pretty much refuses to eat the renal food. I know we could force him but he seriously starves if we only offer that. Then he loses weight rapidly and his tummy gets really sunk in and he looks weak and very unhappy - within a day or two. So we do our best. I so love that I had more than 2 weeks with him..... and that he might live past Christmas - why not? He seems to be very stable and doing ok, happy, living life, not declining.

Milo is doing ok, but I now smell his breath more, which is the smell of the kidneys not working properly. I think this would reflect in his urea blood levels. His weight is back to 5.11kg which is what it was at the vets. His healthy weight is 6.5kg. I guess the good news is that he not declining as rapidly as it was thought he might. We won't know for sure how is tracking until we get more blood work done. He seems happy enough, but is not quite as playful as he was... not recently anyway. On the whole he seems relatively stable. We continue to give him the SQ IV FLuids 100mls every second day, 0.5mls aluminium hydroxide twice a day before food (We syringe it into his mouth) and food. I sit on the floor with him to try to get him to eat.

He does have an appetite, but he does not like the renal wet food, and very rarely eats dry food. He is getting smarter at not eating the renal food. Its in little pale brown soft pellets that look just fine. I put in a bit of whiskers gravy to get him to eat, but now he just licks the gravy off the pellets. So I got some whiskers mince wet food which is 8% protein, not ideal, but he needs to eat so its balancing act. I mix that in with the renal but he has learnt to eat the whiskers around the renal, lick the gravy of the renal and I bet he thinks he is outsmarting me. He is right. But we can not let him starve. He also gets some fatty lamb - he prefers that to fatty beef, and the purpose of that is to get him some calories from the fat.

Milo is still doing well, by observation (we have not had another blood test yet). He is not losing more weight, in fact at times he has put on up to 400grams, but it goes up and down, but never lower than he was when we brought him home from the vet 5.11kg. He has gone up to 5.5kg whihc were really happy with. We have not weighed him in the last few though. He is active, happy, eating (though this is a challenge) and having his aluminium hydroxide twice a day and his IV fluids 100mls twice a day. His breath is not worse, and this I think bodes well as it indicates his urea levels are not getting worse.