Sparky thanks you for the compliment
Standing up on all 4's like he's walking, he's roughly 16in to the top of his shoulders, kinda hard to get him to stand still for an exact measurement. Lengthwise he apx 19in from head to butt not counting his tail. He's at 16.5lbs and holding. He's not overweight at all and can probably use a few more lbs.
Chausie's are a very close bonding cat that has to know what you are doing at all times and needs to be there observing it too. They do not do well being alone and need company. Pretty vocal and have their own distinct noises but I absolutely fell in love with them. I have 2 rescues, him and Chandler who was a mix breed Chausie that came from San Francisco a week apart from each other.
Sparky is an early generation boy an F2 which means one of his grandparents was a Jungle Cat but you'd never know it by his personality but his looks show it. Think of an Abyssinian cat on steroids...he's my mini Cougar.
I got him into my rescue 4yrs next month from a dentist in NC who said Sparky would jump his 6ft fence and beat up his neighbors cat daily. I was prepped for the worse but Sparky's nature couldn't be anything but the complete opposite plus the owner had him front declawed when he was a kitten.
He has such a wonderful personality I simply could not believe what his former owner told me plus I think I found the real answer when I took possession of Sparky. He had real bad diarrhea and was malnourished but after talking to the old owner he confessed he couldn't do anything about it...Sparky's sister was still there last I knew and doing ok but I treated Sparky for a UTI and put him on my home made raw diet and he's been great till July 2014 when he had his first case of neuropathy in his back legs which was very devastating for both of us. I had to carry him to the litterbox to use it cause he just tried crawling. I took him to 3 different vets and after spending thousands and even trying acupuncture, none of them could find an answer but to put him on prednisolone so he's been on a 5mg dose almost daily since then but still had an neuropathy episode atleast 3 times a yr till last Dec when he was finally diagnosed with diabetes. I think this may have been the underlying problem all along but who knows. The pred can cause diabetes too and that's the answer I got from the vets. I put him on methylcobalamin just before he was diagnosed and hasn't had a neuropathy episode since and has been off the pred too so...knock on wood something is working.
He never did get his full jumping strength back though cause he used to jump from the floor to my shoulders but now the highest he will go is a chair. Gotta be some nerve damage in there somewhere.
I will post an update to you when I get this Alpha Trak...I'm also anxious to see the results. The only semi normal reading I got from the I Pet was the very first reading that was 266 at 6pm just before feeding and his shot but after that it never went below the low 300's even after passing several control tests....if the new readings are close to the old then its back to square one and I may need to try a different insulin.
I'm glad the methyl B12 has helped him.