A Sweet Story

I just read this very sweet story of a kitty Saying a very special goodbye.  Really very sweet.  It made me smile and it made me tear up.

Totally worth sharing.

WOW..

can I make that wow stand out any more??

WOW!

What has me so stunned??  Well I was just on Facebook and the shelter I volunteer for posted that they currently only has six cats up for adoption..

SIX!!!

I bet you are saying wow too!!

(I bet they also want a nice photo of Beatrice to put on their website too.  I mean it wouldn't be a website for an animal shelter with out at least ONE cat up for adoption!)

She licked me

I spent some time with Beatrice last night.  I got her to play a bit with a feather, and she had a little bit of fun with a crocheted mouse.  She's not really a player - she is definitely more a "purr-er".  My husband came down after I had been there for a while.  She had jumped up on top of the litter box box and was laying there purring.  He went over, and she turned up the volume.  It was so funny, it was like a little kid when you ask them to be even louder when they are being loud..

and yes, she licked me in a "your ok" kind of way.  A few little licks while I was giving her snuggles.. I think she thinks I'm OK..

but she wasn't thrilled with the raw I tried to sneak into her food.  I don't much like the fact that cats aren't very open minded after they are a few months old.  You have such a short window to introduce so much into their lives so they'll be cool with it when they are adults.  Ah well. It helps them survive, so I can't complain too much.

Who knew...

Looks like Jason Wu likes cats.. this is part of his new collection for Target.
(image completely stolen from their LookBook on FaceBook.)

Beatrice

I think she likes the new room.  She's still not quite as confident as I might like in a cat.  She hides under the couch a lot, but she does come right out when I enter the room.  Lately she's been sleeping on the couch when I walk in, but she immediately jumps down.  I keep telling her she doesn't have to, but she does.

She likes to sit just out of reach - as you can see in the video.  She likes to make you work for it.. lol.  She also likes to jump up on the litter box box (the top is padded) and pose.

She has recovered from the URI quite nicely.  She's eating well. I haven't weighed her since I moved her into the basement.  I spent several hours cleaning that room from the kits and was just so glad to move her down there that I forgot to bring the scale down, and I only ever remember when I'm in the basement.  One of these days I'll turn around and run back upstairs to get it, but it hasn't happened yet.

I believe I've already explained I have a lot of experience with diabetic cats, but all of it was with "old school" insulin, and she's on Lantus which is quite different and I feel like such a newbie.  Basically the injection you give today will be used tomorrow or even later... at least that is what I think it is like.  Feel free to correct me if you have a better quick definition

She's currently on half of a unit 0.5 which is basically a tear drop size amount of insulin and she's throwing some wacky numbers.  With the old insulin I would think she is going into rebound (aka she got too much insulin and instead of going too low her body is pumping out extra glucose to compensate)   Fortunately I have some people who are very experienced with this type of insulin trying to help me make sense of it all and they are quite encouraging. 

*sigh*  Jack is giving me bedroom eyes.. so it's time to give him some one on one time.. oh the sacrifices I make for that boy.. (oh yea, such a hardship on me to love this boy)