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Hi there. Minnie had another medication adjustment. She eats-any and all times she can. Lots of small meals and any meat we might cook, though she would eat anything she can get in her mouth (except eggs! I scrambled her some egg and she was horrified I would serve such filth.) She just...

Thanks for asking. I've been limited time on the internet as my daughter and the horse she was riding fell down a mountain when the horse tripped while running. I have been her full time servant since as she has many broken bones! It turns out Minnie is a pretty pushy kitty with NO cat to cat...

Last night my husband went to the kitchen for a late snack and there was Minnie! She came into me on the sofa, pulled herself up and snuggled me. She seemed ravenous, but didn't want any of the food we offered :( Not sure what might satisfy her.

I am guessing Minnie is feeling better because she is now fighting the pills. Hopefully she will affiliate it with the yummy treat I give right after and it will get easier again. She seems congested and sneezed a bit last night. I noticed this evening what appears to be nasal discharge. I...

My father stopped by this evening to help finalize the memorial for Minnie's Daddy. I had my son bring Minnie up to visit with my mom. After a few moments she came over to see my dad- so happy purring and social. I think she recognized him from his visits to her house over the years. She was...

Yes kidney function was checked. Vet wants her back in 4-6 weeks to monitor kidneys for this reason. I got the impression that will also be for life. I just arranged her Daddy's cremation. He died so suddenly- no will, no family. It has been a haul

Jake finally put weight on- she was DKA the first week of March which is how we'd found out she was diabetic. We'd had her to the vet for the weight loss, but he missed it. Jake is now a good sleek kitty size. She is doing well with her diabetes. I hope Minnie can gain some weight. I hate...

I feel bad for her since she chooses to hang out in the basement all the time. Once school is out the kids will be down there more, but we aren't down there for huge chunks of the day- so she is alone. The other kitties go down to graze, to use those litter trays, sometimes they play with the...

I have been considering chip reading feeders to prevent my diabetic kitty from grazing. The other kitties get canned and dry and are annoyed that is no longer free feed on the dry. Those kitties eat in the basement, diabetic kitty eats upstairs and is monitored (she gets insulin as soon as she...

This is Minnie on one of the trees the first day she came out. I put her up there so she could survey the room (it is in the corner). She went from there and tried to get into the window next to the tree (all of our windows are pretty much floor to ceiling so it should have been accessible.

I am sure she misses her Daddy and the comfort of their routine at the very least. Unfortunately, when I went into his home to get her (he exclusively came to ours for holidays and dinners and such) it seems in the past few years he had become a hoarder. The place was filled with years of...

Would the medication and low iodine food be done in combo? Should I cut out the canned food and only give her dry? I have to have the recently diagnosed diabetic kitty on only canned so this could become quite the juggle. I had hoped Minnie would only be with us while she found her retirement...

A family friend (really a friend of my parents, so a many in his late 60's) had an unexpected and catastrophic heart attack two weekends ago and passed away. I went the same morning and took his cat, Minnie, from his home. I was able to get Minnie into the vet on Tuesday (he used the same vet...

Atticus is a biter- so my husband often scoops him up mouths/"bites" him and says"you got bit,boy"...which then results in a return nibble or a gentle swat from the Catticus. He will occasionally "bite" the other kitties too. They don't really bite back- they aren't biters in the first place.

Our physically biggest male, Lincoln (one of the three kittens that came into our lives bottle fed two summers ago- so about to be 2 in July) usually dos his own thing when it comes to Jake. They don't really interact usually. Since she returned home, he is not only laying on the sofa - which...

The vet said to feed whatever she will eat until the next appointment in one week when they hope to see enough progress to put her on a diabetic diet. That said, before this all came to be, she had lost some weight and my regular vet had suggested a junk food (Friskies canned pate) to get her...

She did a good job with her morning feeding. It took 30 minutes in contrast to her usual scarfing of the food, but she ate almost everything that was offered. She had to stop and groom in intervals but she made it to the end! She really wanted our roast chicken last night but the vet was very...

The nurse who did the diabetes training said they used to use human meters. She said Penn did a number of studies showing some important differences that animal meters are calibrated to account for..however since the animal meter is the same for cat, dog or horse I am not sure how specialized...

Thanks for the offer LTS3. My parents stopped by this evening and brought me a huge stash of stuff. They are both type 1 diabetics and have been moving to different things lately. I will take all they brought with me tomorrow so the nurse who is supposed to train me can help me learn with the...

I have a lot of calls to make in the morning. No 24 hour pharmacies here- and most are currently closed. I worry most about the pet glucose meter as that certainly is special order! I also worry about having to buy insulin at a US pharmacy- I wish I was able to buy from a Canadian pharmacy-...