Being inspired by the elderly feline c60 thread, I thought I'd also start a thread covering the details of our younger cat who is also now taking c60.
My cat's name is Emmie. Here are some of her current vital statistics:
Breed: Bombay
Sex: female
Born: 3/9/2010
Weight: 14 lbs (6 kgs)
Length: 32 inches (nose to end of tail); tail: 10 inches
Height: 15 inches (front paw to top of shoulder)
C60 dosage: 1/2 tsp (2.5 ml) of .8 mg/ml c60/oo = 2 mg c60
C60 Start Date: 11/1/2012
loading dosage: 1 month of daily dosing
maintenance cycle: same dosage 1 time a week.
We started her on c60 on November 1, 2010 when she was 2 years and 8 months old. The initial dose was daily using 1/2 tsp of solution in with the dry feed she likes, which is Purina Fancy Feast chicken & turkey. She doesn't seem to go as much for the wet canned foods except to lick them a bit before abandoning the bowl. So I drizzle the oil over a 1/2 cup of dry meal in a 1 cup measuring glass which I shake up to evenly coat all the meal with oil before putting it into her bowl. I do put a little dry meal on the bottom of the bowl before putting the oil coated in, mainly to keep the bowl from getting too greasy, and also top it off with a little dry meal on top. She normally eats about 3/4 of a cup of dry meal a day but I noticed she slows down a bit when its oil coated. She seems to cut back her eating to about a 1/2 cup a day when its oil coated.
I should also mention we started Emmie on Resveratrol/Astragalus supplementation on September 1, 2011 when she was 1 year and six months of age. For that, we did weekly cycling between Resveratrol and Astragalus, similar what my wife and I do for ourselves. This I do also by coating the dry meal with the powder. Details on that are as follows:
Resveratrol: 215 mg (a 50% product)
Astragalus: 180 mg (70% standardized extract)
We did give her a break from supplementation between June and November, but resumed it when we started her on c60/oo in November. Didn't notice any effects during the break.
Emmie has always been a cat with a surplus of personality. More so than the Persians we had before her. Sometimes I think she's more like a dog than a cat because she loves to fetch and be petted, comes when we call her, constantly follows us around the house, seldom stays in a room if we're not in it, plays hockey with her food, and stuff like that. She used to gallop around the house in the mornings like a mad kitty but we've been seeing less of that in the last six months and a little more sleep time. She sleeps about 14 hours a day now which my wife thinks is typical. I don't recall seeing any increase in activity when she started with c60/oo but i wonder if the prior supplementation might have stretched her kitty-hood out a bit. My wife seems to think so based on previous cats she's owned but this breed is new to her. Emmie certainly is the largest, longest, and heaviest cat she has ever owned but seems not to be fat or overweight in any way. Emmie did have a twin sister named Ellie and we're kicking around to idea of trying to track her down through the vet in Michigan we got Emmie from to see if their stats have diverged much. Emmie, btw, is strictly an indoor cat and was spayed and front-declawed at 6 months of age.
One of my wife's prior cats died of feline leukemia but most of them died of renal failure. Our prior 2 Persians were her longest lived cats who both lived to age 13. We're hoping Emmie's near life-long supplementation has a positive impact on her longevity.
I'm attaching a picture I just took.
Howard