Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA
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We are on day 6. She made it to 8-1/2 last time, so keep fingers and toes (and paws) crossed for her.
She was 73 tonight
She was 73 tonight
Cami is adding up the days again
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MommaOfMuse
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Come on Cami you can do this!!!!!
Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA
Member Since 2009
Well, I guess I jinxed her. She was 151 this morning. Can they rebound on their own insulin?
Well, anyway, had to shoot .05u, so the clock is reset. But one shot of .05u every week isn't bad.
Well, anyway, had to shoot .05u, so the clock is reset. But one shot of .05u every week isn't bad.
MommaOfMuse
Member Since 2010
I would settle for one shot once a week....Cami will get there...she is trying real hard mom...just so many changes, so much to take in when you are just a little kitty and your world has been completely rocked.
Look at it from her point of view...she is with strangers both human and animal that she has to get to know, while a great person that already loves her bunches and nice sisters and brother, she still doesn't truly know any of you. Plus she is getting poked and stuck daily...yes it makes her feel better but it is still a strange routine for her. Then there is a new place to live, new rules in that place to live by, new food etc. Everything she has ever known is now different, and while for the better she may still be very concerned about when her good luck is going to end.
I try to do this with Autumn I try to think what my mental state would be if I was say an 80 year old lady that had only known a certain way of life and suddenly I couldn't communicate with anyone else in my surroundings to tell them what I wanted and needed but everything I knew had turned upside down and sideways. I'm not sure I would feel completely secure about anything in a month or two or even in a year...I would be reviewing and questioning everything for a good long time. Heck, Jon and I have been married for 6 years now going on 7 and I still have my bad days where old baggage from my first marriage surfaces and I question, worry and overthink things. Or have little things set me off not because of anything he has done, but because of what I subconsciously learned from the idiot I married the first time.
The way I kind of explain it is like this...think of a woman that was sexually abused by someone as a child, she grows up and gets invovled with a great guy...He starts telling her how beautiful she is and how much he loves her...she freaks out...why because that is what she heard from her abuser...now the great guy did nothing wrong, in fact he did everything right, but now because of her past she doesn't trust those words anymore.
Cami maybe the same way in her own way, I'm sure she didn't start out life being worried about things, kittens seldom are, but somewhere in her life a human let her down and now she just doesn't know how much she can trust this nice person. Since we will never know her complete back story we will never know what kinds of thoughts and worries she thinks about, so you can't really avoid those things that may or may not stress her out right now.
As someone else said....Rome wasn't built in a day...and both Cami and Autumn have lived a long life before landing softly in our laps. They are little old ladies with a lot of living under their belts and lots of experiences we will never know about and some if not most of them not great ones.
Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
Look at it from her point of view...she is with strangers both human and animal that she has to get to know, while a great person that already loves her bunches and nice sisters and brother, she still doesn't truly know any of you. Plus she is getting poked and stuck daily...yes it makes her feel better but it is still a strange routine for her. Then there is a new place to live, new rules in that place to live by, new food etc. Everything she has ever known is now different, and while for the better she may still be very concerned about when her good luck is going to end.
I try to do this with Autumn I try to think what my mental state would be if I was say an 80 year old lady that had only known a certain way of life and suddenly I couldn't communicate with anyone else in my surroundings to tell them what I wanted and needed but everything I knew had turned upside down and sideways. I'm not sure I would feel completely secure about anything in a month or two or even in a year...I would be reviewing and questioning everything for a good long time. Heck, Jon and I have been married for 6 years now going on 7 and I still have my bad days where old baggage from my first marriage surfaces and I question, worry and overthink things. Or have little things set me off not because of anything he has done, but because of what I subconsciously learned from the idiot I married the first time.
The way I kind of explain it is like this...think of a woman that was sexually abused by someone as a child, she grows up and gets invovled with a great guy...He starts telling her how beautiful she is and how much he loves her...she freaks out...why because that is what she heard from her abuser...now the great guy did nothing wrong, in fact he did everything right, but now because of her past she doesn't trust those words anymore.
Cami maybe the same way in her own way, I'm sure she didn't start out life being worried about things, kittens seldom are, but somewhere in her life a human let her down and now she just doesn't know how much she can trust this nice person. Since we will never know her complete back story we will never know what kinds of thoughts and worries she thinks about, so you can't really avoid those things that may or may not stress her out right now.
As someone else said....Rome wasn't built in a day...and both Cami and Autumn have lived a long life before landing softly in our laps. They are little old ladies with a lot of living under their belts and lots of experiences we will never know about and some if not most of them not great ones.
Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA
Member Since 2009
She was 150 tonight - so another tiny shot.
I know all that stuff is probably true, Mel. And I know (or think I do) that Jeddie never quiet got to 100% trusting that what he had would not be taken. And, sadly, it was - in a different way. I think he was really, finally living happy and grateful... well, anyway (got off on a tangent there) the point being that I know it will take time. I guess, by her numbers, Cami came a long way very fast, so the back steps sort of throw me.
In a way I think that all this time that I have had to be gone to tend to my aunt these past weeks have been good for her. I have been gone as long as 14 hours and come back home and fed, tested and given her treats. Maybe she is learning that I will be there for her. She is sleeping in my bedroom at night now, on the far side of the bed, instead of down the hall by the front door.
She got on the sofa tonight - saw me giving Beau some chicken from my dinner. They both got some chicken. Don't know where the other two were, but they lost out.
I know all that stuff is probably true, Mel. And I know (or think I do) that Jeddie never quiet got to 100% trusting that what he had would not be taken. And, sadly, it was - in a different way. I think he was really, finally living happy and grateful... well, anyway (got off on a tangent there) the point being that I know it will take time. I guess, by her numbers, Cami came a long way very fast, so the back steps sort of throw me.
In a way I think that all this time that I have had to be gone to tend to my aunt these past weeks have been good for her. I have been gone as long as 14 hours and come back home and fed, tested and given her treats. Maybe she is learning that I will be there for her. She is sleeping in my bedroom at night now, on the far side of the bed, instead of down the hall by the front door.
She got on the sofa tonight - saw me giving Beau some chicken from my dinner. They both got some chicken. Don't know where the other two were, but they lost out.
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