Alicia & Kit cat (GA)
Member Since 2019
Yesterday's thread
She's back to usual this morning, so I'm considering last night's not so usual numbers as a blip for now.
In some ways she seems to be doing better - she seems happier (which might be because I'm actually home more than during the madness of the last big show), she hangs out in the living room more, she started using her water fountain again, things like that.
But in other ways, I have concerns I need to chat with the vet about - sometimes when she lays down, her front half goes down, her butt goes up, and then slowly settles (I'm thinking her arthritis is getting worse - I upped her transdermal gabapentin from 0.75 to 0.1 and it seems to help some). She also never has her tail up anymore. Which could also be an arthritis thing? I just noticed it a few days ago and it made me sad to not see it.
But overall she seems good - pooping and peeing on a mostly regular basis (pooping is slightly more irregular, but again, we think that's her arthritis). She still wants pets, she isn't hiding, she still yells at us to follow her to another room so she can get a pet or to before she settles down wherever she might want to nap (you know, because how else would we know that she wasn't sitting right in front of us).
I also am mostly decided that I'm going to stay home for Christmas. Partly because I don't know that I can trust the bf to give shots on time (and Kit is not a good traveler, at all). But also partly because it's a 12 hour drive - if I split up the drive that makes it 4 days of drive time, in addition to however long I actually stay. And that seems like a long time to be away.
Anywho - I hope everyone has a good Sunday. Safe surfing to all the kitties!
She's back to usual this morning, so I'm considering last night's not so usual numbers as a blip for now.
In some ways she seems to be doing better - she seems happier (which might be because I'm actually home more than during the madness of the last big show), she hangs out in the living room more, she started using her water fountain again, things like that.
But in other ways, I have concerns I need to chat with the vet about - sometimes when she lays down, her front half goes down, her butt goes up, and then slowly settles (I'm thinking her arthritis is getting worse - I upped her transdermal gabapentin from 0.75 to 0.1 and it seems to help some). She also never has her tail up anymore. Which could also be an arthritis thing? I just noticed it a few days ago and it made me sad to not see it.
But overall she seems good - pooping and peeing on a mostly regular basis (pooping is slightly more irregular, but again, we think that's her arthritis). She still wants pets, she isn't hiding, she still yells at us to follow her to another room so she can get a pet or to before she settles down wherever she might want to nap (you know, because how else would we know that she wasn't sitting right in front of us).
I also am mostly decided that I'm going to stay home for Christmas. Partly because I don't know that I can trust the bf to give shots on time (and Kit is not a good traveler, at all). But also partly because it's a 12 hour drive - if I split up the drive that makes it 4 days of drive time, in addition to however long I actually stay. And that seems like a long time to be away.
Anywho - I hope everyone has a good Sunday. Safe surfing to all the kitties!
