The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

So very true and kept him occupied... my Bandit likes to take meat out of the sink but drops it on the floor then Moose my lab gets it

Moose trained Bandit well!

The only ill effect we notice with him is that he can't jump up as high as he used to but hey, neither can I lol.

Could have more to do with his age than the food. I'll have to check more into that food for Samantha. Darned expensive though, I wonder if there is a free sample available anywhere. Knowing her, I would buy a 4# bag for $30 and she would not like it. She doesn't run as high as your cat, has gotten into the mid 300s, but does get up to 3 units twice a day depending on the glucose reading. I think the low end of the "desirable range" is a reading of 90 so you are doing really well.

 

[microchick]

Moose trained Bandit well!


Could have more to do with his age than the food. I'll have to check more into that food for Samantha. Darned expensive though, I wonder if there is a free sample available anywhere. Knowing her, I would buy a 4# bag for $30 and she would not like it. She doesn't run as high as your cat, has gotten into the mid 300s, but does get up to 3 units twice a day depending on the glucose reading. I think the low end of the "desirable range" is a reading of 90 so you are doing really well.

Yes, the Young Again cat food is pricey but we figure when we broke it down that it was pretty much averaging the monthly cost of insulin and supplies. Cash literally went from 4 units three times a day and blood sugars sometimes in the HIGH range to hypoglycemic and a blood sugar of less than 40 in less than three weeks. The site says to start them on the food before you go to insulin. I wish we had been able to do that with Cash but we didn't find out about the food for a few months. We were pretty sure we were going to loose him for awhile.

One day we fed him, gave him his usual insulin and 30 minutes later he couldn't find his way around a garbage can in my utility room. His blood sugar was so low his vision failed. We spent the next hour trickling honey into him until his blood sugar came back up to 100. That was the last insulin he got. The vet is starting to refer people with diabetic pets to the site now. Cash made a believer out of him.

We realize that with Cash being almost 18 that the honeymoon won't last forever but for the moment, he's doing great for a cat that in December of last year was on death's doorstep.

 

[pennyJo1960]

our cats are all the same age inside but many different litters, the three the guys had are close in age but different litters... the two I have are within a week or so of age then the three outside are all boys from one feral litter we saved... inside they are about 5 now outside 3

 

[microchick]

We thought about getting a Rumba.

It would just be screaming for mercy within 15 minutes and we'd be dumping it every time we turned around. May as well just break out the shop vac and the dust mop. DH bought me a new vacuum two years ago, a really nice Eureka. It couldn't handle the hairballs. We went to a shop vac. End of problems.

@penny1960, we would love to have outside cats. Unfortunately they don't last long around us due to the coyotes. We have strays come through that we hope will take up residence in the barn but after 3 days we never see them again. Sad. We could really use some good mousers out there.

 

[pennyJo1960]

our 3 outside where raised in my old Shasta trailer 24 ft they still use it in bad weather or awful rain here we cut a whole under the closet for them to go in and out Fear guards her kitties like she does the birds

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Our Roomba clogs not infrequently, but it can run for about 2 to 3 hours each night before clogging. I have to say it was a very good gift for me - I can't keep up with the floors manually and crunchy floors drive me nuts. The Roomba helps them not be crunchy, but the pet hair is still out of control.

Sorry for all the photos recently, but I spent a few hours today playing around with movement and depth with this today, then turned it into a wall hanging. I have a date later this week with the penguin, to make into a pillow (it had 4 animals in the panel).

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Well it is the molting season, Diva.

Just up your protein.

IE get the ice cream with nuts.

.....

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Our Roomba clogs not infrequently, but it can run for about 2 to 3 hours each night before clogging. I have to say it was a very good gift for me - I can't keep up with the floors manually and crunchy floors drive me nuts. The Roomba helps them not be crunchy, but the pet hair is still out of control.

Sorry for all the photos recently, but I spent a few hours today playing around with movement and depth with this today, then turned it into a wall hanging. I have a date later this week with the penguin, to make into a pillow (it had 4 animals in the panel).

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Not too many pictures at all. I love seeing everyone's creations!

 

[microchick]

I'd say you did really well with the depth! I love it. So seasonable and you could almost leave it up throughout winter.

So are you using extra loft batting on the deer? Or are you getting the dimensional depth with strictly stitching?

I've been working for three nights on my sofa cover that I'm doing in a basket weave pattern. The weave squares are about 4X4. I wish I didn't love hand quilting so much.....or rather I wish my hands hated it less. When I was at the doctors this month the student working with me asked what activities I liked to do with my hands. When I told her quilting she tested my fingers to see if I was suffering from quilter's inflammation in my joints by pressing back on my fingers from the palmar side of my hand. When I told her no, that didn't hurt, it blew her mind. Thank goodness it was negative is all I can say. I'd hate to give up quilting too.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

It blows my mind the vision everyone has with the quilting/sewing!
My mind can appreciate, but cannot comprehend how to begin such tasks.
I can knit a mean scarf...but that's about it.