Katorina
Super Secret Back Up Support Agent's 18 year old cat Pookie is winding down.
Pookie was a pound kitty picked out when she was little. She has been a fierce warrior and communicative house mate (probably part siamese). She has overcome being pinned by a falling mirror, having to have her left front leg that was broken, be plated and screwed. And at the start of this year, she somehow broke that leg again and had to carry a fiberglass cast on her 5.4 pound body. She sustained the all too frequent Hyperthyroidism that so many middle aged and older cats get. She gets her meds twice a day for that ailment, and once a day she gets the increaser of motility med. Her GI tract hasn't been really good for a few years, and that's what will probably take her out. She has good days (like today), where she's peppy and can't wait to get out to the smells and necessary marking of the back yard. And then she has slow days, not too interested in eating, getting our of her various nests, or interacting. We have a large part of the living room and big back room covered with blue instrument wrappers from my job in the OR, like I mentioned; her alimentary track has seen better days. She can't see or hear very well, but does try to keep her squirts on the papers, if not in the cat boxes. She's starting to spurt sometimes when her bellys rubbed, when she goes to jump and sometimes for no reason at all. She likes to sleep with us at night, we've had a cover sheet to ward off the little specks and spurts---it's hard to time the life of another. She has grown sweeter in the last 4-5 years and is so dear to the two of us (as well as to her other fans!). She's getting more rickety on her feet, but some days like today, her lust for life and adventure dim the rest of the picture.
Super Secret Back Up Support Agent's 18 year old cat Pookie is winding down.
Pookie was a pound kitty picked out when she was little. She has been a fierce warrior and communicative house mate (probably part siamese). She has overcome being pinned by a falling mirror, having to have her left front leg that was broken, be plated and screwed. And at the start of this year, she somehow broke that leg again and had to carry a fiberglass cast on her 5.4 pound body. She sustained the all too frequent Hyperthyroidism that so many middle aged and older cats get. She gets her meds twice a day for that ailment, and once a day she gets the increaser of motility med. Her GI tract hasn't been really good for a few years, and that's what will probably take her out. She has good days (like today), where she's peppy and can't wait to get out to the smells and necessary marking of the back yard. And then she has slow days, not too interested in eating, getting our of her various nests, or interacting. We have a large part of the living room and big back room covered with blue instrument wrappers from my job in the OR, like I mentioned; her alimentary track has seen better days. She can't see or hear very well, but does try to keep her squirts on the papers, if not in the cat boxes. She's starting to spurt sometimes when her bellys rubbed, when she goes to jump and sometimes for no reason at all. She likes to sleep with us at night, we've had a cover sheet to ward off the little specks and spurts---it's hard to time the life of another. She has grown sweeter in the last 4-5 years and is so dear to the two of us (as well as to her other fans!). She's getting more rickety on her feet, but some days like today, her lust for life and adventure dim the rest of the picture.