Cami update 2-13

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Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA

Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA

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Cami has been running around 100, although she spiked to 132 the other day. She keeps coming back down so I am holding off insulin still.

The best thing is that she has been getting on the bed in the early morning for lots of purrs. She has done this three mornings in the last week now. She like to climb up on my chest and face me. Then she will reach out a paw for my face. This morning she put her head down so it was almost touching my chin.

She also came up to me while I was working today and put her paw on my thigh so I picked her up and put her on my lap. She stayed for a half hour! Just a few mins ago she was yowling in the hall, so I called to her and she came trotting over and I picked her up. She is in my lap now, purring away.

I have never heard her yowl before. Beau does it all the time. I have had other older cats do it. Its like they get lost or don't know where I am so they meow loudly. Now I'm worried about her because I am going out of town for two days/nights to celebrate my mom's 80th bday and now I will worry that Cami is back home yowling and no one is going to call out to her. My neighbor will be feeding them, but they will be alone over nights. Seems like bad timing - just as she is seeming to turn the corner and start to feel like she wants to get on the bed and purr - and I will "abandon" her for two days.

She is still peeing on my carpet sometimes. She can go for a week and then all of a sudden it's several times a day for several days. She got up on a fabric basket with bags of yarn in it and peed over the side onto the carpet Monday night (well, Tues morning) at 3am. And then last night she squatted in the living room in the evening, but I stopped her and coaxed her to the litter box where she went in and peed there. I just can't figure out why she does this. Prozac doesn't seem to help, or not enough. I may try to raise her dose again, but the last time I did it seemed to make things worse. Maybe I should try weening her off it (again), but the last time I tried that it got worse too. Sigh. She is really so cute now that she is settling in and wanting cuddles, but the inappropriate peeing sort of ruins that.
 
Awww she sounds so cute wanting to cuddle...Autumn is starting to really show her purrsonality too now, she now races to greet us in the morning with kisses and head butts, she still isn't much for snuggles and cuddles yet but holding out hope she will get there too.

I know just how you feel about bad timing with having to leave Cami, I so wish we could sit them down like we would a human child and explain, mom has to go away for a little bit but I'm coming back. I'm worried about the same thing with Autumn and her dental, since she worries so much if she even wakes up in a room to find me missing and will cry until she finds me. Autumn doesn't really yowl as much as she cries almost like a lost kitten noise. Poor Cami wish there was some way for you to be able to talk to her while you are gone so she could at least hear your voice.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
good news on the insulin. bad news on that going away might make her revert some.

Hopefully the others can give her the message that mommy will be back in a day or two.
 
Well, Beau might be able to tell her I usually come back, but I so rarely leave them they don't really remember it. But this will be a sample of what is to come when I will be gone for 10 days in June. I will worry that whole time about them, especially Cami. The longest I have left the others was 6 days and that was almost four years ago (will be in June).

I got Cami to cuddle for a bit this morning. She came into the bedroom while I was getting dressed, so I scooped her up and put her on the bed and she started purring so we had a little cuddle.

I am still testing her once a day, in the morning, and she often jumps up on the chair and then onto the table while I am getting everything ready. Amazing what a few treats will do! And she greets me at the door when I come home and has started to run out into the hall and walk down it a little ways exploring. Jeddie used to do that all the time, but he trotted all the way down the hall as fast as he could go. Leanne also does that. But I think it is a sign of being comfortable enough in their home to venture out to explore.
 
Yes it is.

On Sunday it was nice out and Sneakers wanted to go out on the porch so I let her after I opened the widow curtains so I could see out. She darted out across the yard after a leaf and pounced on it, tail flashing :lol: . Then she explored the front yard for a good 10 minutes after that and finally came back inside, exhausted.

I am wanting to enclose my front porch in screening fabric so I can let her out in the morning/evenings without letting in the insects. She enjoys her outside time but I do not like the crawlies in the house :shock: :roll: .
 
Some day I want a house with a screened in area that the cats can go outside in - like either an enclosed porch or an actual "cat run" made for them.

Got back an hour ago. Everyone wanted treats and followed me around. They are all fine. I hoope Cami comes for some cuddles this evening or tonight (on the bed).
 
I think she did really well with me being gone. She was 64 the next morning. I am now testing her a few times a week only.

She got on the bed Tuesday after I called to her and purred a lot, but today she went and peed on my LR rug. Dang it!
 
Sheila just a wild thought because it came up with Autumn today at her dental....As Cami every had her anal glands checked...reason I ask is because Autumn's were badly impacted and she would every now and then pee were she wasn't suppose to too. Most of the time as was great about her litter box habits but every now and then she would pee on the bathroom rug (the only place there is a rug).

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Will do, so far today so good but then again it is only day, but it has definitely helped with the jumping and mobility issues she was having, she has literally been on Everything since coming home.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Hmmmm, makes you wonder what it feels like to have impacted anal glands, doesn't it? (lol!)

Cami doesn't walk funny, in the way you describe Autumn did (like a raccoon), but she does waddle. I think that is more from the belly bloat, which is still an issue, or some neuropathy. She poops ok too, but not the small, hard poops that are supposed to help express those glands. She has large, medium firm ones.

I started her on B12 3 weeks ago and hope that will help with the digestion and gas/bloat. And I will do more research into impaction and talk to the vet about it next time I see her.

Glad Autumn in feeling good!
 
See Autumn didn't poop those small hard poos either, hers were large to medium and semi-soft....don't you just love it that we can sit here and discuss poo first thing in the morning and no one things we're odd... :lol:

Autumn did waddle as well but she also walked like a racoon with her back hunched up and sort of shuffled. She would climb to get places like to get to her testing spot on my desk she had to go from the couch to her perch in front of the window, to the file cabinet then step over to the desk...yesterday after she came home for the first time she jumped from the floor straight to the desk. Her back is still more rounded than the other cats' but much flatter than it has been since we adopted her.

Plus I have seen her twice now use one of the higher sided litter boxes that before she would avoid, so she definitely has more mobility than she did, on the downside there is now no where safe to leave HC foodies except locked in the cupboard...lol. Before I could safely leave bread on the counter in the bread box...no more of that I see.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
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