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Brianna & Xander

Brianna & Xander

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3/11/25

Still up here in bounce land for now! Naturally within a short time of taking off the Thundershirt he's already going for the freaking Libre. :rolleyes: Until I find a permanent way to keep him from getting to it, I'm afraid to leave him unsupervised for 5 minutes at a time (which makes sleeping difficult).

Staci was nice enough to show me what she does for Ivy and even shared some Amazon links for suggestions so I'm really hoping I can try some of those out and find something that works for my difficult little guy, too.

Other than that, just the same old. :) Hope everyone has a nice day!
 
Staci & Ivy said:
Hi Brianna, I hope these pics give you an idea of what I mean. Yes, it just covers her torso and is slightly snug, I also put something I found at my local grocery store, which is a wide headband made of fabric underneath the tube top. So she’s really wearing two layers. (I don’t know that two layers is necessary for every cat, but Ivy tends to be a Houdini and likes to get out of things so it just seems to work for us)
I made these tube tops. I just bought some fabric and sewed up the seams and edged them so they don’t unravel, but I’ve seen things on Amazon that you could buy. I’ll try to find one and send you a link.
Yes you could probably take some kind of legging and just cut it off as long as it was slightly snug and wouldn’t move around.
Obviously, you don’t want it too tight like the thunder shirt, if it was driving him crazy.
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I know it’s hard, but try not to get too discouraged. Sometimes we just have to think outside the box until we find something that’s going to work for our cat. Ivy is a challenge with everything and I am always having to figure out something different for her. Other cats tend to go with the flow, but not my kitty. Hang in there!! :bighug::bighug::bighug:
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Staci & Ivy said:
Here are a few ideas:
https://a.co/d/1gvuAfQ
Women's Strapless Pleated Sexy... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K6SX1Z8?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
https://a.co/d/1at480X
headband:
https://a.co/d/93IZClg

https://a.co/d/dwGRrVr


The stretchy headband alone might work (it’s like what I have under her tube top)

https://a.co/d/1at480X
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OMG! This is so incredibly helpful! Thank you so much for both the pictures and the links! It's great that those are all so cheap that it should be a lot easier to try those out than the Thundershirts. I've been running out of ideas and at this point I'll try anything financially feasible to me.

Thank you so much for this. I'll have to get some of it and try it out.
 
Brianna & Xander said:
OMG! This is so incredibly helpful! Thank you so much for both the pictures and the links! It's great that those are all so cheap that it should be a lot easier to try those out than the Thundershirts. I've been running out of ideas and at this point I'll try anything financially feasible to me.

Thank you so much for this. I'll have to get some of it and try it out.
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You’re very welcome. I hope they help! I know what a challenge it all is :bighug::bighug::bighug:
You’re doing so great with Xander! :cat:
 
Brianna & Xander said:
3/11/25

Still up here in bounce land for now! Naturally within a short time of taking off the Thundershirt he's already going for the freaking Libre. :rolleyes: Until I find a permanent way to keep him from getting to it, I'm afraid to leave him unsupervised for 5 minutes at a time (which makes sleeping difficult).

Staci was nice enough to show me what she does for Ivy and even shared some Amazon links for suggestions so I'm really hoping I can try some of those out and find something that works for my difficult little guy, too.

Other than that, just the same old. :) Hope everyone has a nice day!
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The struggle is real! Sorry for that added stress, especially if you can't manually test.

Can you put it a little higher behind the shoulder blade? The last one Petey had was in a perfect spot, he really had to exhaust himself trying to reach it.
 
Laurie&Petey said:
The struggle is real! Sorry for that added stress, especially if you can't manually test.

Can you put it a little higher behind the shoulder blade? The last one Petey had was in a perfect spot, he really had to exhaust himself trying to reach it.
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It definitely doesn't help! I wish so badly that we could just manually test and not have to worry about this. The first one he had he left alone for the entire 2 weeks! Why not these? :arghh:

The spot I put it in this time is pretty high up, but he can just barely still reach it enough to now rather than bite it, lick it incessantly enough to pull it off. We did try even higher than that at one point but the Libre failed to deploy and it made everything worse (he was more traumatized having to have it done twice, etc). It's also hard because when he's stressed he hunkers down and it's really difficult to tell where his shoulders and stuff will be once he's moving around. So sometimes we'll put one on that we tried to get slightly higher, but it ends up being right where the skin separates between his shoulder/side in certain positions, etc if that makes sense. The place they seem to stick the best and not be moved around by his arms is on his side, basically behind where his elbow would be. But that's easy to bite. :rolleyes:

I'm just so tired of this problem. This one has been on less than two days (half of which it was covered and inaccessible!) and it probably won't even make it through the night. Agh.
 
Update: Ended up having to put the Thundershirt back on. I feel awful, but he won't leave it alone and at this rate it'll be gone by the end of the day. I don't have any alternatives on hand to try yet; we have to order things. It was either this or waste the fourth sensor in like 10 days. They're not exactly cheap! :arghh: Only other alternative is to simply not have numbers and shoot blind (which I'm unwilling to do) or pause treatment until we can find a way to make this work (which I'm also unwilling to do.)
 
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