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"Cheryl" wrote in message ... Hard to believe he is sick by looking at him. He was enjoying the sun today. I still wonder if some of the tummy fat is bloat, but the vet has checked him out many times. http://community.webshots.com/photo/...82978103lvhuIP He looks bee-u-teee-ful! And so much happier than in his post-operation pictures! BTW, I think I asked about this before, but what kind of netting is that again? I'm looking more seriously into putting something up for my cat. Summer is almost over (she won't go out during winter) but I may as well start looking now! rona |
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"Cheryl" wrote in message ... Hard to believe he is sick by looking at him. He was enjoying the sun today. I still wonder if some of the tummy fat is bloat, but the vet has checked him out many times. http://community.webshots.com/photo/...82978103lvhuIP What a wonderful transformation. I am so happy to see Shadow looking so much improved. That device he's resting on looks great. Is that a slantboard scratching post attached? Great job! MaryL |
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"Cheryl" wrote in message ... Hard to believe he is sick by looking at him. He was enjoying the sun today. I still wonder if some of the tummy fat is bloat, but the vet has checked him out many times. http://community.webshots.com/photo/...82978103lvhuIP What a wonderful transformation. I am so happy to see Shadow looking so much improved. That device he's resting on looks great. Is that a slantboard scratching post attached? Great job! MaryL |
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"Cheryl" a écrit dans le message de news: ... Hard to believe he is sick by looking at him. He was enjoying the sun today. I still wonder if some of the tummy fat is bloat, but the vet has checked him out many times. http://community.webshots.com/photo/...82978103lvhuIP Now thats living for ya!! :-) He don't look bothered by his tummy either (g) Elaine |
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"Cheryl" a écrit dans le message de news: ... Hard to believe he is sick by looking at him. He was enjoying the sun today. I still wonder if some of the tummy fat is bloat, but the vet has checked him out many times. http://community.webshots.com/photo/...82978103lvhuIP Now thats living for ya!! :-) He don't look bothered by his tummy either (g) Elaine |
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"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote in message
... "Cheryl" wrote in message ... Hard to believe he is sick by looking at him. He was enjoying the sun today. I still wonder if some of the tummy fat is bloat, but the vet has checked him out many times. http://community.webshots.com/photo/...82978103lvhuIP He looks bee-u-teee-ful! And so much happier than in his post-operation pictures! He's come a long way and been through a lot. BTW, I think I asked about this before, but what kind of netting is that again? I'm looking more seriously into putting something up for my cat. Summer is almost over (she won't go out during winter) but I may as well start looking now! rona I bought a roll of the material from http://www.friendlyfence.com/ff/ They have kits but I just got the roll of 7 1/2' high x 100' long and attached it to the deck posts with plastic strapping. It's very tough and hard to cut even with an exacto knife so even if they could chew through it, it'd probably take longer than their attention span. I attached it to the ground with 10" garden spikes that have a hook to hold the material close and tight to the ground. Shadow has a lot of strength and barrelled through before I put the spikes in, now he can't budge it. Shamrock tries to dig but I curved the bottom inward before spiking so he scratches across the mesh along with dirt so gave up. I did have to cover it; Shamrock has also tried climbing it. Just heavy duty staples to the deck supports above and the door frame on the side of the house and strapped the top corners together where the top and "walls" meet and every few feet along that. I would have done something like the cat fence-in since my backyard is fenced in but I don't want to discourage the strays from coming around now that they are so used to a food source and they come and go over the fence. Oh, what we will do! LOL |
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"Rona Yuthasastrakosol" wrote in message
... "Cheryl" wrote in message ... Hard to believe he is sick by looking at him. He was enjoying the sun today. I still wonder if some of the tummy fat is bloat, but the vet has checked him out many times. http://community.webshots.com/photo/...82978103lvhuIP He looks bee-u-teee-ful! And so much happier than in his post-operation pictures! He's come a long way and been through a lot. BTW, I think I asked about this before, but what kind of netting is that again? I'm looking more seriously into putting something up for my cat. Summer is almost over (she won't go out during winter) but I may as well start looking now! rona I bought a roll of the material from http://www.friendlyfence.com/ff/ They have kits but I just got the roll of 7 1/2' high x 100' long and attached it to the deck posts with plastic strapping. It's very tough and hard to cut even with an exacto knife so even if they could chew through it, it'd probably take longer than their attention span. I attached it to the ground with 10" garden spikes that have a hook to hold the material close and tight to the ground. Shadow has a lot of strength and barrelled through before I put the spikes in, now he can't budge it. Shamrock tries to dig but I curved the bottom inward before spiking so he scratches across the mesh along with dirt so gave up. I did have to cover it; Shamrock has also tried climbing it. Just heavy duty staples to the deck supports above and the door frame on the side of the house and strapped the top corners together where the top and "walls" meet and every few feet along that. I would have done something like the cat fence-in since my backyard is fenced in but I don't want to discourage the strays from coming around now that they are so used to a food source and they come and go over the fence. Oh, what we will do! LOL |
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"Arjun Ray" wrote in message
... In , "Cheryl" wrote: I know Shadow was overweight at some point, but was he muscular before that? Oh yes. He was always muscular (thick neck, thick legs, very solid) but he gained weight when my Marley got sick with megacolon and he was eating all of the food from both of their bowls. I really get sad when I think back on all of the things I missed between both of those boys. Food gone = everyone eating. Not. Funny how you don't even notice weight changes when you see them every day. I've never bought a scale but now that I have 2 new kitties that are young (~2 years, and ~7 months) I think it's something to seriously consider. Shadow went from 19lbs early last year to 12lbs at his worst, and back up and now 20lbs. My fault... when the diarrhea started he was so hungry all the time. It seemed the food went straight through him without anything being used. Until the vets and I could find a way to stop that, I just let him eat when he wanted to thinking it would stave off malnutrition, and after all that time without eating... Stupid, but what do I know. He's now doubly at risk for diabetes so he gets regular blood work. I'm also getting meaner about cutting down and finally out of the dry food. Nobody gets dry food at night and I only put out a small amount when I leave for work. I hope that it might help him drop some of the weight but for real, his life expectancy is shorter now... not that I plan on letting stuff go with him.. oh hell, now I'm rambling. sigh I just hope that even if he doesn't get to run outside much, the workouts on the stairs coming downstairs more where the entrance to the enclosure is will help some! In some recent pictures, my Scruffy looks pretty good, but in some subtle way he isn't the same. He used to be very muscular, solid all over, like a decathlete. His tomcat jowls are basically gone, and he looks dry and drawn a lot. From close, you can tell he's wasting. It's hell watching them seemingly waste away. http://www.nyct.net/~aray/cats/temp/ 404... I see that was a temp location. Do you have an updated URL? But still better than a few months ago. When he crashed in February, he was down to 9 lbs 4 oz. As of a few days ago, he's back up to 11 lbs 11 oz. Well that should make you feel good! Yay Scruffy! I'm not sure about anyone else but when you help them fight for their life when they are so ill there is such a bond, almost a parental bond.. where you'll do just about anything to save them. |
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