Re: 1/21 Musette 312, +6~293, +9~292
Really not to bad today overall so far considering the stress factors of last night, and I have noticed she is real sensitive about the vibe in the house. Things get even slightly out of the "normal" pattern, she numbers will jump up quite a bit. I have to remember something that I had forgotten early on with her too, and that is she is still truly settling in to our busy active household. She is still learning mine and DH's norms as well as 13 different feline personalities, and learning her place in the heirarchy, and a large canine presence. After living almost 12 years as one of two cats in a household where from both her vet records and personality traits that I see in her, she was bullied by her feline roommate so badly that her family put her outside as a front declawed cat, and was never really interacted with and loved on by her human caretaker. No wonder she stress out easily, she's only been with us a little over 6 months.
Then there is what I call the "seasons' of our household..lol There are several times of year that most of the cats here have lived through for a couple of years, that every new member of the family stress out over the first couple of times before they learn its just the normal vibe of the household, eventually is just becomes in them as natural and predictable as Oh it is summer now time to go lay in this window for the best early morning napping sun, and this window over here is better for late afternoon sun napping. And those are weekends when daddy is gigging, Husker football season, and The Fourth Of July! DH is always frantic and stressed and nervous the day of a gig, somedays I would like to be anywhere but at home with him 24 hours before a gig..lol, Football season DH is going to be either po'ed at the Huskers and yell at the TV. OR Screaming and jumping up and down to celebrate them doing well..DH is not a Husker Fan he is a Husker Fanatic! lol. And the Fourth of July our place sounds like a war zone, we are on the very edge of town, and because of that we are surrounded on 3 side by 3 major Public Fireworks displays, and we also have a lot of kids in out neighborhood, who are still of that age where they are setting off the really loud or noisey type fireworks, they are young enough that have gotten to that stage where they want the pretty showy displays, their still in the louder the better stage. So far she has only experienced the later two, this whole daddy's leaving for a gig is a new experience because he wasn't in a band when we adopted her, and none of the cats are use daddy going away all weekend for work, because that is pretty recent development.
Then add on last night that she went from nearly 400 last night at her pmps to 172 at her +8 (Oh do I love the time stamp on that meter because I say that I tested her later than I thought), so what probably even lower at around +6 where her nadir seems to falls. So I also am more than likely seeing another small bounce out of her, that is a pretty steep drop. So I really shouldn't have been surprised at that 312 this morning, actually I should be delighted that she didn't bounce any higher so it is progress that she is starting to get use to the lower numbers and her liver isn't panicing as much when it feels them.
Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
