5/7 Papaya AMPS=472 +4=115 PMPS=503 +2=368 +6=160

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Amy & Papaya (GA)

Amy & Papaya (GA)

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When I saw this morning's high preshot, I thought here we go again, another failed decrease - but by +4 Papaya was already in blue . . . may hit green but I won't be at home to see it. She for some reason suspected I was planning to take her with me this morning, because when I went looking for her to test before I left, she was in a corner of the room behind an armchair. Guess she got her calendar messed up as we do have a vet checkup for her tomorrow morning!

With the nice weather FINALLY here (it snowed right to the end of April, but yesterday it was as hot as any summer day) I have all the windows open and I'm happy to see that Papaya is very alert and interested in all the smells drifting in on the breeze. Have a beautiful day, wherever you are!
 
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Hi guys .. yay for blues at +4! That's a pretty big drop so don't be surprised if papaya bounces from it .. fingers crossed she doesn't, or that it is a very short lived one ... have a great day guys!
 
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Hi Amy,

Wow! Beautiful drop Papaya :mrgreen: Looks like she's on her way to The Lagoon!

Maybe she wants to go for a walk? Have you ever walked her? One thing though: If she's never been on a walk, you may want to think twice. With Gobbles, I've created a little monster..... he whines at the door (even when I/he takes me for two walks) and has been attempting to tear the screens out of the windows....

Have a wonderful day :razz:
 
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You'd laugh at the walk Papaya goes on occasionally: she goes down the sidewalk, through the front yard (which is all perennial flowers, no grass) without stepping off the stone walkway, then back around another rock path until she comes back to the back yard. Then she walks gingerly through the dirt of another flower garden until she's back on the sidewalk. She absolutely refuses to step in grass - doesn't know what the stuff is and doesn't trust it. This is from her growing up in a city with a population density of 23,678 per sq km (New York is 10,640 per sq km for comparison) . . . there is no room for grass, everything is concrete and asphalt!! So yeah, she is not the rambling-in-a-meadow type at all :roll:

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Are you originally from Taiwan? What's it like living in such a city? All I see when I look at that picture is PANIC ATTACK : :lol:
 
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LOL if crowds make you nervous, definitely not the place to be. I loved it though - weaving through insane traffic on a scooter was the best part :lol:
I just went there to get a cat . . . think she has a "made in Taiwan" label somewhere . . . actually I'd started learning to speak Mandarin in Canada and ended up moving to Taiwan to improve it. I really wish I had kept the email of the British girl who gave me Papaya while I was living there, because she was so worried about how Papaya would settle in with a new person. I think she'd be happy that Papaya really did find a fur-ever home.
 
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Nope--I am not a crowd person....I like to keep a 3 foot perimeter of empty personal space around me :lol: Trips to walmart and the county fair leave me frazzled :lol:

Just curious--when you flew back, did you put Papaya with you in the plane or cargo hold? Did you have to use some sort of tranquilizers? How long is that flight???
 
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At the time I flew back, no airlines were allowing pets in the cabin, so she traveled below but in a section of the plane that has climate control, so not strictly with the baggage.

I took China Air, and they were actually very attentive - a flight attendant came up to me before we took off and told me the captain had checked that the temperature was good in the section my cat was. It's a looooong flight - I think 13 hours from Taipei to Vancouver, then I had to switch to a regional carrier which meant waiting for Papaya to be unloaded - how did I know she'd come off very last, with the oversize luggage - and checking her in again on a different flight entirely. The nutty people made me take her out and hold her while they scanned the carrier before the second flight . . . I didn't have high hopes of being able to stuff her back in :roll: By then I'd actually missed the connection and had to wait for the next. Then it was another three hours or so to the final destination, and when we got here there was some holdup and we had to sit on the runway for ages. I could hear a little dog barking from down below as it was a small plane and I remember thinking Papaya would be so annoyed sitting next to him!

By the time I got to let her out in a hotel room in Canada, she'd been in the carrier for about 21 hours. She had peed in it, unsurprisingly, but otherwise seemed pretty chilled out about the whole thing. She vanished under the hotel bed's quilt for a bit but quite quickly came out to explore. I didn't give her any kind of tranquilizers because I've heard it's more dangerous - if the plane shakes around or the carrier moves for some reason and the animal is too zoned out, they could break a leg or worse.

Of course this was about four years pre-diabetes. I don't know how I would do a long trip like that now. I do four-hour car trips every now and then, and she's fine with that.
 
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Wow....on both Papaya's bouncing, and her travels!!! I'm like Kat...I love lots of personal space - so not a city person!

Have a great evening, guys!!
 
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Thanks, Amy&Trixiecat! At this point I'm just happy the bounces don't last too long . . . we're back to blue by +6 tonight! So maybe she'll surprise me with a good number in the morning. G'night all!
 
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