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[donkyboy]

My fox friend is back again for food

 

[UnderOpenSky]

It's a hard life being Katniss

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Just made friends with next door's cat, Cookie. He's a big lad and I was amazed to find he's the same age as Lilith (a few months older, to be precise - neither are one yet). Anyway, we've caught her eyeing him up out the window a few times and suspect she fancies him.

 

[stavros]

Just made friends with next door's cat, Cookie. He's a big lad and I was amazed to find he's the same age as Lilith (a few months older, to be precise - neither are one yet). Anyway, we've caught her eyeing him up out the window a few times and suspect she fancies him.

Or wants to knock the shit out of him for trespassing.

 

[May Kasahara]

Viv being absurdly cute last night.

 

[High Voltage]

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!

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

Don't get me wrong, if you've got a good vet (as we have, thank goodness) they are worth their weight in gold

BUT

On-going meds appear to be outrageously marked up

FiFi's insulin - as mentioned above, from the vet have just sneaked up to £20'ish per vial - a vial lasting NO MORE than 28 days once opened

A prescription, valid for a month cost us £15 and the exact same insulin FOR A BOX OF 10 vials delivered to the house in a chilled container was less than £70, so with the prescription £85'odd - from the vet north of £200

Similar mark up with syringes and sharps box and disposal of sharps box Grrrr!!

 

[stavros]

We men might've slackened off on the shaving over the last year, but we'll never get something this good on our chins:

 

[seeformiles]

Lil’ Bob exhausted

 

[moose]

Baldy.

 

[seeformiles]

Lil’ Bob has just come in grumbling about the windy weather - oblivious to the piece of hedge stuck to his nose

 

[May Kasahara]

Cat health experts, what might these bumps on Donut's ears indicate? I'll take him to the vet but just thought I'd canvass opinion in the meantime...

 

[seeformiles]

Cat health experts, what might these bumps on Donut's ears indicate? I'll take him to the vet but just thought I'd canvass opinion in the meantime...

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Perhaps some sort of dermatitis or bites?

 

[Epona]

Ew yuk, poor Donut, does it seem to be bothering him?

Poor love, I have no idea what it might be, let us know what the vet says!

 

[May Kasahara]

Ew yuk, poor Donut, does it seem to be bothering him?

I can't say he seems too bothered

 

[trabuquera]

Mites maybe? Again?

 

[May Kasahara]

Quite possibly

 

[May Kasahara]

Ugh, well, he definitely does have ticks as a big fat one just fell off him onto my bed and several little ones too. Have given him the back of neck treatment and he's now sulking in the shadows.

 

[strung out]

Don't get me wrong, if you've got a good vet (as we have, thank goodness) they are worth their weight in gold

BUT

On-going meds appear to be outrageously marked up

FiFi's insulin - as mentioned above, from the vet have just sneaked up to £20'ish per vial - a vial lasting NO MORE than 28 days once opened

A prescription, valid for a month cost us £15 and the exact same insulin FOR A BOX OF 10 vials delivered to the house in a chilled container was less than £70, so with the prescription £85'odd - from the vet north of £200

Similar mark up with syringes and sharps box and disposal of sharps box Grrrr!!

Really useful again, thanks.

Also, I've only just realised/remembered that the diabetic cats you and izz have been telling me about are the same cat

 

[izz]

Really useful again, thanks.

Also, I've only just realised/remembered that the diabetic cats you and izz have been telling me about are the same cat

 

[Hollis]

Last 3 days another cat has been meowing very loudly outside the back door of my house day and night. As my cat is male, it can't be a Tom., and I don't think it's a stray so not sure what's going on really..

 

[Puddy_Tat]

As my cat is male, it can't be a Tom

very heteronormative of you...

 

[spitfire]

Ziggy (or Cat as I call him) getting his head round the new scratching post/view point. Pic by Mlle Fire.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Kitten has discovered the wonders of the frontroom sofa.

 

[Epona]

Kitten has discovered the wonders of the frontroom sofa.

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Gorgeous!

My boys were fighting over who owns the sitting room window sill earlier - sunniest place in the flat

 

[waxoyl]

ACAB, Allcats are beautiful, even bald one’s.

 

[donkyboy]

everyone taking a nap

 

[Puddy_Tat]

ACAB, View attachment 258623Allcats are beautiful, even bald one’s.

that look says "either light the bloody fire or give me my fur back you rotten sod"

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Kitten has discovered the wonders of the frontroom sofa.

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The white balance is well out in that photo.


He'd shifted a bit into a more normal position here.

Colour is still a bit off here. I wonder if I have the wrong mode on.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

You can also see that his back legs are a bit wierd. He doesn't seem to be able to draw them up underneath him.
As he has gotten a bit older he has compensated so he isn't wobbly when running around but when he tries to jump any large distance it's kinda off.
he can get up onto a chair but not a table it seems.

 

[Orang Utan]

Here are some beautiful cat portraits:

Feline aristocracy: the cat portraits of Igor Kryukov – in pictures

Photographer Igor Kryukov brings an old master aesthetic to images of his aristocratic cats

www.theguardian.com