KPassa
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I think Michelangelo might be growing again just a bit. He's been seeming heavier lately but so far I haven't seen it reflected on the scales.
These last few days he and Mr. Hankers have been getting up to all sorts of mischief. Those two little punks are constantly :twisted: bedeviling :twisted: me with their antics. Henry has even started teaching Mikey to climb and jump on things that Mikey has otherwise never shown any interest in before. ohmygod_smile Henry, the mini-monster, has also become a bit too adventurous. I've never really had a jumper-cat before, so Henry has been an interesting change of pace and a new learning curve for me. I've already yelled at him to get off the counters more times than I've ever yelled at any of my other cats in my entire lifetime. :roll: Last night, he finally succeeded in what he's been attempting to do since the second day he got here: jump the backyard fence. Luckily, I was outside with them. Doubly-lucky, he was rather surprised at his accomplishment and paused at the top of the fence to figure out what he'd just managed to do and what he should do next. I took that opportunity to grab him off the fence before he could proceed over it into our neighbor's backyard. I need to get him a collar ASAP! I just really hope he doesn't teach Mikey-Mike this bad habit as well. :?
Thank you! :YMHUG: Your words always warm my heart.
I guess part of it is because they're probably the closest to kids I'll ever have. :lol: In fact, they're a lot like young toddlers and I've had to "childproof" my home more and more the curiouser they get. I've got to figure out something to do with our fence, though, because I leave the backdoor open for them when I'm at work all day and they're home alone for hours at a time (the one thing you can't do with toddlers but you can with cats haha_smiley ).
And Rhode Island is one of the few states I've never been, so I might just do that one of these days. Of course, you know my offer to come visit me any time still stands. ;-)
My last cat, Patrick, was a BIG boy at ~22 pounds healthy weight, topping out at ~26 pounds when he was overweight; he had hepatic lipidosis when he was about 3 or 4 and was never able to properly maintain his weight after that (it definitely didn't help that I was ignorantly but good-intentionally feeding him Hills Prescription w/d for most of his life). He was able to start opening doors since he was a year old and would do the same thing as Chip: stand up on his hind legs and just turn the door knob like a human wearing mittens. :lol: I never had that scratching at the door issue with him because he came and went wherever he wanted whenever he pleased, although since he was part-feral (like Mikey), he preferred to spend most of his time hiding out somewhere (usually my room).
This is when I'm glad I've only got two of them that I need to monitor for food intake. I try to slightly overfeed them each meal so there's always just a tab bit left in the bowl by the next time I put down more food (about 4 to 8 times a day or more, depending on how long I'm home and how fast they're eating). That way I know Mikey always has food if he starts going low and Hanksters is never a starving kitten (even though he likes to pretend he is when I'm mixing them fresh food).
On the days I can't be home, these last few times of shooting low have really relieved me of that worry that he might be surfing dangerously low greens while I'm gone. First, I discovered how significantly a 3% carb difference between his regular >5% carb food and his "high" 8% carb food impacts his BGs. When he's over 150, it makes a negligible difference, but when he's green, it beautifully guides him up by about 10 to 30 points. And second, Mikey is a masterful self-regulator when it comes to preventing hypos and will snack and graze every 20 minutes on his food for hours on end when he's surfing green. :mrgreen:
I think Michelangelo might be growing again just a bit. He's been seeming heavier lately but so far I haven't seen it reflected on the scales.
These last few days he and Mr. Hankers have been getting up to all sorts of mischief. Those two little punks are constantly :twisted: bedeviling :twisted: me with their antics. Henry has even started teaching Mikey to climb and jump on things that Mikey has otherwise never shown any interest in before. ohmygod_smile Henry, the mini-monster, has also become a bit too adventurous. I've never really had a jumper-cat before, so Henry has been an interesting change of pace and a new learning curve for me. I've already yelled at him to get off the counters more times than I've ever yelled at any of my other cats in my entire lifetime. :roll: Last night, he finally succeeded in what he's been attempting to do since the second day he got here: jump the backyard fence. Luckily, I was outside with them. Doubly-lucky, he was rather surprised at his accomplishment and paused at the top of the fence to figure out what he'd just managed to do and what he should do next. I took that opportunity to grab him off the fence before he could proceed over it into our neighbor's backyard. I need to get him a collar ASAP! I just really hope he doesn't teach Mikey-Mike this bad habit as well. :?
RubenTheCat said:
Thank you! :YMHUG: Your words always warm my heart.
I guess part of it is because they're probably the closest to kids I'll ever have. :lol: In fact, they're a lot like young toddlers and I've had to "childproof" my home more and more the curiouser they get. I've got to figure out something to do with our fence, though, because I leave the backdoor open for them when I'm at work all day and they're home alone for hours at a time (the one thing you can't do with toddlers but you can with cats haha_smiley ).And Rhode Island is one of the few states I've never been, so I might just do that one of these days. Of course, you know my offer to come visit me any time still stands. ;-)
Dale 'n' Chip said:
My last cat, Patrick, was a BIG boy at ~22 pounds healthy weight, topping out at ~26 pounds when he was overweight; he had hepatic lipidosis when he was about 3 or 4 and was never able to properly maintain his weight after that (it definitely didn't help that I was ignorantly but good-intentionally feeding him Hills Prescription w/d for most of his life). He was able to start opening doors since he was a year old and would do the same thing as Chip: stand up on his hind legs and just turn the door knob like a human wearing mittens. :lol: I never had that scratching at the door issue with him because he came and went wherever he wanted whenever he pleased, although since he was part-feral (like Mikey), he preferred to spend most of his time hiding out somewhere (usually my room).
Dale 'n' Chip said:
This is when I'm glad I've only got two of them that I need to monitor for food intake. I try to slightly overfeed them each meal so there's always just a tab bit left in the bowl by the next time I put down more food (about 4 to 8 times a day or more, depending on how long I'm home and how fast they're eating). That way I know Mikey always has food if he starts going low and Hanksters is never a starving kitten (even though he likes to pretend he is when I'm mixing them fresh food).
On the days I can't be home, these last few times of shooting low have really relieved me of that worry that he might be surfing dangerously low greens while I'm gone. First, I discovered how significantly a 3% carb difference between his regular >5% carb food and his "high" 8% carb food impacts his BGs. When he's over 150, it makes a negligible difference, but when he's green, it beautifully guides him up by about 10 to 30 points. And second, Mikey is a masterful self-regulator when it comes to preventing hypos and will snack and graze every 20 minutes on his food for hours on end when he's surfing green. :mrgreen:
