Cali amps-381, pmps N/A

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MommaOfMuse

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Well she is getting easier to test...kinda. At least the pure screaming didn't start until we were almost done and I was getting ready to shoot.

She decided last night she wants nothing to do with the wet food so she's up this morning from the little bit of dry she had.

Mel and The Fur Gang
 
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you are doing great, Mel. I am working on finding another flavour or variety that Sammy will eat as well, but so far its a no go.
 
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Aha!!! There's the tutu. Cali girl, everybody is out at the sundeck and water waiting to meet you. You are much too pretty to wear that tutu! The boys need another girl to admire now that Sammy is leaving us behind.

My mommacat is doing the not eating thing too. She used to like the raw and now she is picky - but she is also not well.

It's difficult when you can't play the hunger card on a diabetic. I am fortunate that Alska will eat anything.
 
Okay I give. The fight is getting ridiculous and now she has Duvessa so freaked out that she's started the inappropriate peeing again on my kitchen counters. So I'm gonna try a different approach with her.

I'm gonna take her off insulin over the weekend and work on making friends with her through a ton of treats. So far I've found she has a fondness for turkey deli meat. So I'm gonna grab some chicken breasts and see if she'll eat it either boiled or raw and start by tossing them ever closer to me. Had her eating out of my bare hand tonight.

If she wants to act like a feral then I'll treat her as one and take baby steps with her. Tonight when I finally got her calm enough to really evaluate her condition, she's been a very poorly controlled diabetic..she's full of dandruff, poor coat condition and very flat foot in the back. She's completely down on her hocks. Plus her eyes don't look right to me like she's got the beginnings of cataracts.

Makes me wonder how regular she was getting her shots. So for now I'm just gonna monitor her by dip stick until I can win her trust. Because it honestly isn't worth the trama on both of us right now. And who knows maybe once she calms down she won't need insulin.

Mel and The Fur Gang
 
Exactly the kind of cat I wrote up the Secondary Monitoring Tools list for in my signature link! Sometimes, you have to go with what the cat will allow.

Good luck with her,
 
Mel,
Her eyes - it may just be lenticular sclerosis which makes them cloudy looking. It looks like developing cataracts but it's not - it doesn't affect their vision. KT has it....

HEADBUTTS sweet Cali....if anyone can help this baby, it's Mel and Jon!
 
Good thought, Mel! One definition of insanity is doing the same futile thing over and over expecting different results. I think you are on the right track. Make a friend of her first, give her a few days to calm down and then see.
 
Peeing on the counters!!!! That would be the end of me. I get freaked when Alska poos outside the litterbox and beyond the pad.

Good thing you have all the know how on dealing with these feline emotions and behaviors. Galaxy has nothing on you.

Hope she responds to the new program.
 
The reason some cats are sequestered in the back third of the basement is that the juveniles would corner Tux on the kitchen counter and she'd go because she had to. Then the juveniles started marking that territory. *sigh*
 
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