TigzMom
Member Since 2015
Hi all
Just checking in..
For the past few weeks Tiggy's been doing great with maintaining his blood glucose off insulin. He's recently been mostly greens and only a couple of blues! 5/22/15 - AMBg = 86; PMBg = 56; 5/21/15 - AMBg =96; PMBg =75; 5/20/15 - AMBg = 96; PMBg =88; 5/19/15 - AMBg =96; PMBg =76; 5/18/15 - AMBg =89; PMBg =69; 5/17/15 AMBg = 96; PMBg = 92; 5/16/15 - AMBg =96; PMBg =72; 5/15/15- AMBg=98; PMBg =82, etc.
So, it seems the change in diet has made a huge impact for him. I've took the great advice I got here as well in purchasing one of those automatic "feeders" and finally got Tigz trained to use this.
Tiggy is a bit of a scaredy cat and initially didn't like the noise the feeder made as it moved when the timer indicated it was time to feed him and his non-diabetic bro, Boo. I had to coerce Tiggy by putting his fav low-carb "treat" inside the bowl so he would come and eat at the bowl. Once he got the hang of it, he decided he liked this and ended up sitting on-top of the automatic feeder and staring at the bowl waiting for it to move, as it appeared he thought he'd get another treat! He does the same thing both when I get up in the AM and when I arrive home at night, in that he jumps on top of his "special wicker stool" where I standardly do his blood glucose testing. After his testing, he gets a low-carb "treat" for being a good boy and sitting so nicely for mommy. He is a very quick learner when it comes to his "treats"! LOL
I still do have left over dry food, which I didn't want to just throw away and waste good money and good cat food, even if it is dry cat food. So, I am feeding the dry food to a little feral kitty that has been hanging around outside my home. My kitties are both strictly indoor cats and don't go outside at all. I feel a little guilty for feeding the feral kitty dry food (as opposed to canned), however, I did try to feed the feral kitty some canned food, but she didn't seem interested in it.
I found out that this feral kitty has been fixed as her ear has been clipped (to indicate she was fixed). When I first saw her ear, I thought she had gotten her ear mangled by some machinery. Yikes! But a neighbor of mine works with a cat rescue and informed me that this is what is done to feral cats when they get fixed. This neighbor had found this feral kitty and her newly born kittens to the rescue shelter where she works. The kittens ended up being adopted, and the feral mother kitty was fixed. But the feral mother kitty was found to be non-adoptable as the shelter felt she was not "people friendly", as she kept hissing, spitting and trying to claw at people. I am assuming this is because she was very very scared when she and her kittens were captured and taken to the shelter. Thus, she was returned to the area where she was first rescued from after she was fixed.
I personally think it depends on the people feral cats are around as this feral kitty is super sweet and friendly toward me. Go figure!! I already have two indoor kitties, (especially one who has diabetes and asthma), so I can only keep her and feed her outside my home. I think she is happier outside anyway as she really won't come inside anyway. I've started to call her "Peanut", because she's still so tiny. She still looks like a kitten, even though she is approximately 2 years old. My neighbor who works at the rescue shelter seems to think she is still so tiny because she was malnourished as a kitten. She's very cute and knows exactly how to get my attention when she wants food. In the morning, she will bang my screen door against my sliding glass door on my patio to make noise to get my attention that she is sitting on my patio...waiting oh, so patiently for her food..She also greets me on the walkway near my driveway and walks with me up to my front door. She will then go around to the back once I go into my front door and then go around to the back patio to sit by her food and water bowls to be fed. Oh my, I think I'm starting to become a "crazy cat lady"..LOL
Hope everyone is doing well...
-TigzMom
Just checking in..
For the past few weeks Tiggy's been doing great with maintaining his blood glucose off insulin. He's recently been mostly greens and only a couple of blues! 5/22/15 - AMBg = 86; PMBg = 56; 5/21/15 - AMBg =96; PMBg =75; 5/20/15 - AMBg = 96; PMBg =88; 5/19/15 - AMBg =96; PMBg =76; 5/18/15 - AMBg =89; PMBg =69; 5/17/15 AMBg = 96; PMBg = 92; 5/16/15 - AMBg =96; PMBg =72; 5/15/15- AMBg=98; PMBg =82, etc.
So, it seems the change in diet has made a huge impact for him. I've took the great advice I got here as well in purchasing one of those automatic "feeders" and finally got Tigz trained to use this.
Tiggy is a bit of a scaredy cat and initially didn't like the noise the feeder made as it moved when the timer indicated it was time to feed him and his non-diabetic bro, Boo. I had to coerce Tiggy by putting his fav low-carb "treat" inside the bowl so he would come and eat at the bowl. Once he got the hang of it, he decided he liked this and ended up sitting on-top of the automatic feeder and staring at the bowl waiting for it to move, as it appeared he thought he'd get another treat! He does the same thing both when I get up in the AM and when I arrive home at night, in that he jumps on top of his "special wicker stool" where I standardly do his blood glucose testing. After his testing, he gets a low-carb "treat" for being a good boy and sitting so nicely for mommy. He is a very quick learner when it comes to his "treats"! LOL
I still do have left over dry food, which I didn't want to just throw away and waste good money and good cat food, even if it is dry cat food. So, I am feeding the dry food to a little feral kitty that has been hanging around outside my home. My kitties are both strictly indoor cats and don't go outside at all. I feel a little guilty for feeding the feral kitty dry food (as opposed to canned), however, I did try to feed the feral kitty some canned food, but she didn't seem interested in it.
I found out that this feral kitty has been fixed as her ear has been clipped (to indicate she was fixed). When I first saw her ear, I thought she had gotten her ear mangled by some machinery. Yikes! But a neighbor of mine works with a cat rescue and informed me that this is what is done to feral cats when they get fixed. This neighbor had found this feral kitty and her newly born kittens to the rescue shelter where she works. The kittens ended up being adopted, and the feral mother kitty was fixed. But the feral mother kitty was found to be non-adoptable as the shelter felt she was not "people friendly", as she kept hissing, spitting and trying to claw at people. I am assuming this is because she was very very scared when she and her kittens were captured and taken to the shelter. Thus, she was returned to the area where she was first rescued from after she was fixed.
I personally think it depends on the people feral cats are around as this feral kitty is super sweet and friendly toward me. Go figure!! I already have two indoor kitties, (especially one who has diabetes and asthma), so I can only keep her and feed her outside my home. I think she is happier outside anyway as she really won't come inside anyway. I've started to call her "Peanut", because she's still so tiny. She still looks like a kitten, even though she is approximately 2 years old. My neighbor who works at the rescue shelter seems to think she is still so tiny because she was malnourished as a kitten. She's very cute and knows exactly how to get my attention when she wants food. In the morning, she will bang my screen door against my sliding glass door on my patio to make noise to get my attention that she is sitting on my patio...waiting oh, so patiently for her food..She also greets me on the walkway near my driveway and walks with me up to my front door. She will then go around to the back once I go into my front door and then go around to the back patio to sit by her food and water bowls to be fed. Oh my, I think I'm starting to become a "crazy cat lady"..LOL
Hope everyone is doing well...
-TigzMom
It is kind of funny to watch how they react to their auto feeders. Neko ran away the first couple of times, and now it's her best friend.
