u/Robblos

Hand Feeding Vet wants me to stop

My eight year old female overweight cat recently developed FHS. She was on Hills Metabolic Diet food mixed with her Purina Live Clear & she had lost some weight. She was always an affection eater & you had to walk her into the kitchen but she ate from her bowl. Since the episodes of FHS she has rejected the Hills & only wants to be handfed her Purina, I switched to their weight management Live Clear, & plan to order their prescription diet food. At her recent vet visit she had gained 2 lbs & is up to 22 lbs. Her blood work was normal. The vet wants me to stop the handfeeding but she has had a lot of trauma in her past & now the FHS. She was meant to be a barn cat but fell through some planks at 2 weeks old & the mother cat disappeared. The person who raised her for 2 years abruptly gave her away to an individual who kept her for 1 year & threw her out when he got a dog. She was luckily retrieved by the original pet parent & I got her at 3 years old. Any advice as to how to transition away from handfeeding? She lays by her bowl and I find it very difficult to just ignore her. This behavior happens at least 8xs a day. I worry that if I don't handfeed her this will trigger more FHS episodes.

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u/Robblos — 9 hours ago

Pixel 4 Watch Warranty hell

I spent 2 days of going back and forth between Support & Fitbit via chat and calls trying to resolve my watch problems. Finally Google agreed to honor the warranty which still has 5 months left. They finally agreed to issue a replacement. I asked if this was going to be a new watch or refurbished and I was told new ( I have a transcript and screen shots of his reply. I chose Advanced Option 1 and was provided a link to order the replacement watch which I did. Instead I get back a pic of a refurbished watch that I will receive. I called Support immediately and was told there was no way of knowing what was being sent. If that is so why send a pic of a watch head? Anyone have any experience dealing with this, I have always bought Google products, my phones, Chromecast, a tablet & have never had any issues until now and then to receive such horrible support when it's needed.

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u/Robblos — 3 months ago