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Milo is still getting used to his twice daily insulin injections. His appetite just seems to be all over the place - after eating dinner about 9pm last night, he has basically slept through the whole day, missing breakfast and only just asking for some food at 5pm.

We've been checking that he's still responsive and not hypoglycemic rather than just sleepy, but even after 20 hours without food, he's just picking at his food rather than wolfing it down. We're hoping it's nothing serious, but it's definitely strange after living with him being completely hyperactive for the last 6 months to just being permanently sleepy and not food motivated!
 
Found out where Vastra has been vanishing to during the day - she's found she can slup behind and under the spare bed. So you can bother her by lifting up the mattress.

Anyway, she emerged while I was working in the room and did a little skip-run accompanied by a 'Prrr-rrrrp!' as if to say 'Behold! I have emerged!'
 
Chloe and Rogue looking at a neighbours cat, Miko, in the communal garden. Rogue is incredible territorial and doesn't like any other cats. She routinely chases him away. attempted to get under the gate to chase him out but I stopped her and shooed her back indoors

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donkyboy said:
Chloe and Rogue looking at a neighbours cat, Miko, in the communal garden. Rogue is incredible territorial and doesn't like any other cats. She routinely chases him away. attempted to get under the gate to chase him out but I stopped her and shooed her back indoors

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That cat looks very like “Mrs Miggins” - a girl with a very mean streak who terrorises our two boys. On the plus side, when she appears they stop fighting for once and work together to vanquish her.
 
bellaozzydog said:
Stopped to say hai to a lively cute friendly purring cat. Put my bag down for a tickle and photo opportunity and it promptly backed it’s big balls onto my bag and gave it a good squirt of piss

little fucker

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Reminds me of the time Antelope and I befriended a ginger cat who hung around our apartment when on holiday in Italy.

We made a fuss of it and when we bought single cream by mistake instead of milk, guess who got it?

He rewarded us by pissing on Antelope's leather bag, which eventually had to be thrown away as he couldn't get rid of the smell. :mad:
 
strung out said:
Milo is still getting used to his twice daily insulin injections. His appetite just seems to be all over the place - after eating dinner about 9pm last night, he has basically slept through the whole day, missing breakfast and only just asking for some food at 5pm.

We've been checking that he's still responsive and not hypoglycemic rather than just sleepy, but even after 20 hours without food, he's just picking at his food rather than wolfing it down. We're hoping it's nothing serious, but it's definitely strange after living with him being completely hyperactive for the last 6 months to just being permanently sleepy and not food motivated!
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We're about a year down the line now with giving Fifi her twice daily insulin injections

The best bit of advice I can give re: food / injection is to keep records, if your not already

Fifi is on diabetic biscuits and for her weight she was meant to eat, 50gr per day, so 25gr per 12 hours, which we rounded up to 30gr per 12.and as long as she eats that then she gets her full injection (3.5units)

I've created an unnecessarily complicated sliding scale reducing the insulin for every two grams of biscuits she doesn't eat eg if she only eats 15 gr then she gets 7/14's (told you it was unnecessarily complicated)

The only time she's gone hypo was before I took notice of how much food she had eaten and was injecting her the full dose regardless

I've run this by the vet and have been told it's a good idea, shame they didn't spell it out from the start. We don't do the daily ear sticking thank goodness

One other thing worth looking into. Our local council collect sharps for free and supply a sharps box for free as well, also the insulin we get is £20 odd from the vet but they'll write a prescription valid for 6 months for £15 and the exact same stuff is less than £10 on line with a prescription
 
High Voltage said:
We're about a year down the line now with giving Fifi her twice daily insulin injections

The best bit of advice I can give re: food / injection is to keep records, if your not already

Fifi is on diabetic biscuits and for her weight she was meant to eat, 50gr per day, so 25gr per 12 hours, which we rounded up to 30gr per 12.and as long as she eats that then she gets her full injection (3.5units)

I've created an unnecessarily complicated sliding scale reducing the insulin for every two grams of biscuits she doesn't eat eg if she only eats 15 gr then she gets 7/14's (told you it was unnecessarily complicated)

The only time she's gone hypo was before I took notice of how much food she had eaten and was injecting her the full dose regardless

I've run this by the vet and have been told it's a good idea, shame they didn't spell it out from the start. We don't do the daily ear sticking thank goodness

One other thing worth looking into. Our local council collect sharps for free and supply a sharps box for free as well, also the insulin we get is £20 odd from the vet but they'll write a prescription valid for 6 months for £15 and the exact same stuff is less than £10 on line with a prescription
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Great advice, thank you.

Main problem we're experiencing with the food is that he's on a fully renal diet already, with additional medication added to his food for kidneys and pancreas. Once we've added all that in, it's hard to tell whether his appetite is off either because he doesn't like the food and/or meds, or because he's feeling sick/not hungry.

Case in point this morning, when he bothered me this morning about food and watched me prepare the whole lot, then pissed off out the cat flap as soon as he realised he didn't fancy it. Who knows when he'll be back and when he'll get his insulin. He seems to love his dry food still, but you can't add the meds to them unfortunately.

We've got another appointment in a couple of weeks for further bloods, so we can nail down his diet and meds a bit better. We've also got to do a day of blood glucose tests by jabbing his ear for blood every two hours for 12 hours, the day before his appointment. I'm sure we'll all enjoy that :D :hmm:
 
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