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"Since my tummy is bothering me, Mama fixed up my favorite room with everything I need. With the door closed no other cats can bother me, and Mama's right next to me at the computer!"
"Stalking and being brave! I am on a purrmanent mission to destroy the bad people who decided it was okay to use toxic, industrial-grade filler ingredients in pet food. I lost my furriend T.C. because of toxic cat food, and I am one angry little furball."
Coloration: Orange & White Tabby
Likes: feeling safe, looking out windows, supervising Mama-Queen in the shower, observing paper shredder in action, licking books and shiny paper, shredding paper with teefs, helping Mama-Queen on the computer, killing bathroom rug with bunny kicks of DOOM!
Pet-Peeves: Leo, being chased by Leo, being stalked by Leo, strangers, loud noises
Favorite Toy: small portable battable objects, coins and other shiny things, pens, q-tips, anything that can be pushed off a surface
Favorite Nap Spot: on a box next to Mama, or in a basket of laundry
Favorite Food: Royal Canin HP; Eagle Pack Holistic Select Duck and Oatmeal or Chicken and Rice
Skills: staying alive
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: Pixie is our little girl of hard knocks. I found her at the Morris Animal Refuge in Philadelphia as an older (5-month-old) kitten. I was looking for a baaaabykitten, but she caught my eye from the start and wanted to interact with me, and when my first attempted adoption of another kitten fell through and I went back to try again, and she was still there and still focussed on me, I decided she was making it quite clear that she had chosen me - and would I please get a clue already? :D
Her adoption took awhile, because she was suffering from a chronic sinus infection (that's what being born on the streets in the winter will do to a kitten) and her health needed to improve before she could be spayed, a requirement of release at Morris. But I went in to visit her and cuddle her several times in the interim, and a few weeks later I was able to bring her home.
Bio: - Has congenital gum disease that has left her with only a few teeth, but insists on eating only dry food.
- Has a very sensitive tummy. Update 7/14/07 Finally it seems we've corrected this issue. It appears Pixie has an intolerance to corn products, even in small quantities. We discovered this by switching her and the other cats in the household to what we thought was a "combination" of Eagle Pack Duck and Oatmeal formula which contains no corn at all, and VeRUS Life Advantage which contains a small amount of corn gluten as a protein stabilizer. Apparently when both were combined she was only eating the Eagle Pack, because as soon as we ran out of that and she started eating only VeRUS for 4 days she started vomiting again. She's been back on Eagle Pack only for 5 days, and hasn't vomited once in that time, so from now on we're going to supply non-corn-containing food for her needs. (Felidae and California Natural also contain no corn, and she's been snacking on sample packets of those with no ill effects, so I'm pleased to report we have backup products for her in case Eagle Pack is ever unavailable or switches its formula.) 2/09 After a very bad bout of sick-tummyness, Pixie's emergency vet switched her to Royal Canin HP Rx formula (hypoallergenic soy isolate based food) and prescribed 1/4 Pepcid a day. She seems a little more comfortable with this ... time will tell. The vet also did bloodwork which came back fine.
- Went missing for a week several springs ago during the uproar of household construction. An indoor cat ever since she came home from Morris, with a trembling fear of being outside, she presumably fled through an open door to escape the loud hammering and sawing noises, and crawled onto a car's engine to hide. The car starting up probably wasn't part of her plan at all. She hitched a ride to a point several miles from our house before managing to get off the car somehow, but was quite ill and disoriented, with burns on her abdomen and paws, by the time she was found cowering under another car. Her kind rescuer returned her to us, and after almost a week of hospitalization she spent another week at home recovering from her ordeal.
- Given her horrific formative weeks on the wintry streets of Philadelphia, and her later ordeal by motorized vehicle, we do our best to assure that she is and will remain an indoor cat. She's definitely the most vulnerable, insecure, and high-strung of our cats, taking offense easily and suffering miserably when she's out of her safe zone. (Boarding at the vet's is just not an option for her anymore; the others take their occasional vacation stays in stride, but she gets depressed, refuses food, rejects all staff attention, and is nervous for days after returning home.)
Lives Remaining: 5 of 9
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About Mama: My Mama has a human diary that you can read here. She loves making new human friends!
I miss my dino-hunting, purreaking angel furriend Alaidh:
I have always said mur-mur. It's how I talk, when I'm not chirping or screeching. And now I know why.
I have a heart that says mur-mur.
Actually, it says gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.
It's a bad thing called Hypertrophic CardioMyopathy, or Hokum. I have to take a pill efurry day for it, and the pill might make it better, or it might make it stay the same, or it might have no effect and my heart will get more and more gurgly and I will have trouble breathing.
I don't want that. I think I'll take my pills. They're very little pills, anyway, so taking them is not so bad.
And I have to go back to see the heart expert guy in six months, or a year, or earlier if I'm not doing so well.
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