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My Palekana went to the Rainbow Bridge today. I miss her already. I found Palekana outside my workplace in the Spring of 1999. My co-workers knew I already had cats and encouraged me to take her home. The vet said she was about six months old. She was a scrawny, little kitty at the time but...

Questions have been asked in several threads regarding what the ingredients listed on pet food labels really mean. Apparently these definitions are established by AAFCO. After more than a little searching I found information about at least some of the definitions. Here are a few links to...

I really think my kitties are trying to make me even crazier than I usually am! Now it's Kolohe who is sick. First of all I've noticed poop on the floor in the cat room where three of the litter boxes are about four or five times over the past two weeks. Yesterday I finally caught Kolohe in...

As some of you know Eric was recently diagnosed with diabetes. By putting him on a high quality, high protein, low carbohydrate diet his blood sugar dropped from 297 to 149. However, the new diet means he is no longer eating the C/D that maintained an appropriate pH level for six years after...

As I've posted before Eric was being tested for diabetes. In a urinalysis a month ago he had sugar in his urine. A blood panel showed his fasting blood glucose was 297. According to the vet 170 is high normal. In hopes of controlling the problem with diet and avoiding insulin the vet put...

I know that I don't post here often but my Palekana girl needs a MEGA dose of those famous TCS vibes. First, a short history. I posted about a month ago that Palekana seemed to be having trouble chewing or swallowing her food. At that time the vet found a small sore in her mouth. In case...

I posted a couple of weeks ago about medical problems Eric was having. His urinalysis showed sugar in his urine. He was on antibiotics at the time so the vet wanted to wait until he was off the meds for a week before doing blood work. He had blood drawn last Thursday. The vet called me this...

Someone may have posted about this site before. My apologies if I'm duplicating. It was mentioned in the morning newspaper today. It posts daily pics of adorable kittens. There is also an archive so you can look at past pics. http://www.dailykitten.com/

My Eric needs some famous TCS vibes. I noticed this morning that he was having trouble urinating. He went to three different litter boxes within an hour but only little dribbles of urine came out. Because he had crystals and a urinary blockage about six years ago this really had me worried...

As most of you know there was an earthquake in Hawaii last Sunday. Most of the damage was on the Big Island of Hawaii. Many cats and dogs were terrified and escaped from their homes. Acccording to news reports the Humane Society has been inundated with calls from frantic pet owners looking...

Tiggy and Fluffy love to sleep on their backs. Look at those lovely kitty bellys! They both like belly rubs, too. Here's some pics of them. Here's Fluffy And here's Tiggy

It's Palekana's birthday this month- I think. I found her outside my workplace in April 1999. At the time the vet estimated she was about six months old. That would place her birth month as October 1998, give or take a month. So- I'm celebrating her 8th birthday this month. Happy Birthday...

I just have to comment on how affectionate Kolohe is becoming. Before my husband died last year Kolohe was most definitely his cat. I sometimes thought Kolohe tolerated me only because I served his food and cleaned his litter boxes. In recent months he has become more and more affectionate...

We had a kitty brushing party at my house today. I've been lax about brushing the kitties and decided today was the day to work on some of them at least. So Fluff, Tiggy, Eric and Palekana got brushed and combed. Fluff, as usual, twisted and turned and was generally difficult. He basically...

I did lots of picture taking last night- got good pictures of Kolohe and Torty, the ones I didn't post earlier. Also more pics of some of the others. This is Torty- the shy one. This is Tiggy- he usually runs from the camera. This is Palekana- hanging out by the scratching post...

Hi: This is my first attempt to post pics. I hope it works. I resized these images so I hope they aren't too large. As you can see my kitties don't like to pose. I have to catch them as best I can. Only Fluff (the gray guy) will sort of pose- but then he thinks he's the top cat. This...

I just got around to joining TCS today after hanging out and reading posts for several months. I live in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. I'm retired and recently widowed- my husband died in 11/05. I have seven cats- six of which were adopted as strays after being born in or near my backyard. I...