I heart cats

It is still a challenge to get through the day without thinking of Farley... but the other cats are all doing well. Fred has taken to propping his head up on things like Farley used to do. Sophie is a little less irritating to me, because she isn't always stealing Farley's food. And Jezebel seems to be doing pretty well with her insulin.

We are back to doing 2.5 units in the morning but just 2 units in the evening. We have tested her blood sugar a few times, and about 6 hours after a dose, her levels are around 150 to 250.

Some things we've noticed recently, though, are that Jezebel seems to have an increased thirst and she isn't eating as much as we want her to eat. But, she is eating some food every day and she is getting around fine, so maybe we're just nervous.

On February 25, I took Jezebel in to see Dr. Phillips, and he said she seemed to be doing well. Her weight was holding steady from a month earlier, but he did notice a thickening of her intestinal tissue. He said that might be nothing, or it might be a type of lymphoma. We obviously don't want it to be lymphoma, so I'm hoping he doesn't feel anything there when she goes back in a few days.

Our three cats

So now we just have Jezebel, Fred, and Sophie here in the house. And apart from Jezebel's diabetes, they are all healthy. Sophie tends to have some weird limping from time to time, but that is most likely from how she was declawed in a bad way. (not by me.)

Anyway, we are happy to know that so far, everyone is good. We have a new vet that seems to understand how we want to care for our pets, and I am trying to be more patient with Sophie and Fred--the orange cats--even though they drive me nuts.

Food Review: Sensible Choice

The cats don't care much for sensible choice. Sophie was the only one who paid much attention to it, but everyone else wandered off pretty quickly.

We won't bother with this one again.

3 days of KD

So for the last 3 days, I've managed to get Farley to eat dry KD food. I'm hopeful that by getting him to eat some of the special diet, along with some high quality foods for variety, that he will gain weight and his kidneys will stabilize, if not improve. He never eats much KD, though. This morning, he might have eaten about 1/8 cup. But some is better than none.

By the way, Farley voted for Obama, but Jezebel voted for Palin. She really loved that line about pitbulls and lipstick.

Fred is too young to vote and Sophie is a communist.

Food Review: Grammy's Pot Pie

Merrick's Grammy's Pot Pie looked great and smelled almost good enough for me to eat.

Fred gives it his seal of approval.
Sophie eats anything.
Jezebel acts scared of it.
Farley gives it the stare of ambivalence.

I think we should try it again sometime. The consistency is very moist--almost like a gravy. The pieces of turkey and chicken are very small, but not completely ground up into a mush. You can see tiny bits of potato in it. I'm not sure that cats give a damn about potato.

Overall, the cats seemed only mildly curious about it, but maybe they're not used to eating at 7am on a Saturday.

Morning Feeding

Last night, Farley wasn't eating much of anything--not even fancy feast--so we put all the food up before we went to bed. I was hoping that if they weren't able to snack at night, the cats would all wake up hungry.

I forgot to add this last night, but about 30 minutes after we gave Farley his amoxil drops, he threw up. I think it might be because he hadn't eaten, but I don't know. He definitely threw up the medicine, though, because it was pink.

Anyway, this morning, when I got out of bed, Farley ran ahead of me into the kitchen. I put some dry KD food in the bowl, and he ate about 5 or 6 pieces of it. (not much) Then, he lost interest and walked over to look out the window at some birds. We're going to try giving him some more fancy feast in a few minutes.

Jezebel is eating fine. Fred ate a little of Jezebel's food. Sophie might not have noticed that the food is out at the moment.

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Fred is patient

Morning Feeding

Farley ate about 1/4 can of beef flavor fancy feast. He wasn't interested in anything healthy. We gave him some fish oil at about 9:30am.

Jezebel ate some dry "wilderness" food.

Sophie and Fred ate anything they could find.