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"My furmily and I were named Dogster's Dog(s) of the Week for the week of Christmas! I was Dog of the Week!!! MOL! Thanks Dogster HQ! What a furbulous honor! :D"
Coloration: Calico
Likes: tuna, sitting on the window sill looking out at her yard, playing with Zelda, being petted vigorously
Pet-Peeves: taking medicine, other cats coming into her yard, large chunks in her tuna
Favorite Toy: Zelda, Dad's spider plant,paper bags, ink pens
Favorite Nap Spot: next to the woodstove (burning or not!) under the "cat" sign
Favorite Food: tuna, half & half, tuna, Chicken Soup For The Cat Lover's Soul, did I mention tuna? And...tuna!
Skills: Rosie grabs Zelda around her head and neck and body-slams her when they play! Since Rosie has gotten older and started having health problems, she no longer wrestles with our MinPinChi, Zelda. The two are still the closest of friends.
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: While reading the newspaper, we couldn't help but notice how many ' free kittens ' there were that needed good homes. We decided that we could provide just that for at least one kitty. We went to look at a litter and the sweetest little girl with her little pink nose just took to us right away. I said, " We'll take the one with the pink nose!" I could not have made a finer choice.
Bio: Rosie is a very sweet girl. She is a good cat and she always comes when called and she has always treated our tiny new puppies very gently. She loves the dogs and sometimes she can be seen curling up with Penny in the doggy basket, sleeping. She is Zelda Marie's favorite playmate and she really is a saint, the way she tolerates the rambunctious puppy!
Rosie was an indoor only cat for about the first two years of her life but when she became an adult she wanted to be able to go outside - and she told us so! After a few months of not giving in to her pleas, we didn't have it in us to keep her inside for her whole life. She is a cat! She wants to go out and sunbathe and hunt and stalk. That is what cats do! To keep her away from nature would be akin to a person spending one's life in prison! So , Rosie won and she began to go out for short little adventures during the day, and usually spending most of her nights outside. She has fared well over the years and, thankfully, never came home once with so much as a scratch on her! For the past year or so, since about the age of 12, we have gone back to staying indoors, especially at night. Rosie is more and more becoming okay with this rule. She never goes outside anymore, except each night, before I go to bed, she runs out the front door. I wait 5 minutes and open it back up and in she runs!
Beginning in about August of 2006, Rosie began to have a chronic cough. We treated her for hairballs. After about 3 months, Rosie still had a cough and it was getting worse. This would be the very first time in her life that she ever made a visit to the vet for anything other than routine maintenance! Age 13! She has been diagnosed with a serious heart condition. She is responding very well to her medication and we hope to have her with us here for several more years.
Lives Remaining: 8 of 9
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My special days: *My purrthday: November 17, 1993*
**My Catster honors...
Daily Diary Pick: 9/7/08, 9/08, 1/13/10, 1/26/10 -
Catster Cat of The Day: 5/22/2009 - Dogster Dog(s) of the Week (The Tater Tots! ) 12/21-12/28/2009 **
It is sooo yummy! It's a prescription wet food called k/d with chicken. When Momma put some in my dish tonight, I ate faster and with more gusto than I ever have before!
I normally pick at my food, ever so delicately, but tonight I just chowed down!
My canine furblings all stood around the table where I eat, their noses all aimed up at me and my yummy food. Link bounced around a little bit, trying so hard to make himself not jump up onto the table with Momma standing right there watching. Penny Ann yipped a couple times and Zelda just cried a tiny bit. Teddi Sue didn't make a peep, as usual. That pup never does anything bad! What a goody Two-Paws.
But anyway, the dogs didn't get a single taste, but I got all I wanted! :D I finished what was in my dish and Momma was right there to scoop a little bit more into it for me!
Momma is relieved that I like it. It's a special food from that is gentle for my kidneys. Who would have ever known that it could be sooo tasty! But I sure am glad it is! Hopefully I'll start to gain some weight back soon. I'm not a real large kitty to begin with, but being down to 5 pounds is way too thin, even for me.
Now that my tummy is filled with my furbulous new food, it's about time for me to go warm up my spot by my wood stove!
I got my test results today and I am very Hyperthyroidic. I also have a bit of kidney disease, but Dr. Johnson told Momma that it isn't real bad and it is something she wants to "keep an eye on". She said it is not uncommon for "olde furts" like me.
Now, the part momma is really upset about is that my vet's office is now closed until Monday and Dr. Johnson apparently forgot to phone in my prescription! She FORGOT!HOW could my vet have forgotten to phone in my medicine??!!! She just got done telling Momma how very HyperT I am! The normal range is 0.8 - 4.0 and I came in at 6.2 .
Momma did get me the k/d food that Dr. J recommended, so at least I can get started on that, but I was sooo looking forward to starting to feel better soon.
Momma got the phone book out and found one Nancy Johnson and she called it and left a message on the answering machine. Hopefully it's the right Nancy Johnson and she will phone in my prescription. If it hasn't been done by tomorrow morning, Momma is going to call the Emergency Veterinary Hospital that is open 24/7 and ask them if they can help us out.
Momma is livid! I keep telling her to calm down. It's only a couple more days, but I can tell she really hates to see me have to feel crummy for longer because of some dumb human mistake.
At least now we know for sure what is wrong with me and now we can start working on getting me all fixed up. . . . . . . . as soon as I get my medicine!
I guess there isn't much more I can do right now except go take a little nap.
So, that's what I'm going to do!
I went to see Dr. Johnson today. It was not a fun trip. First of all, I threw up and peed in my carrier during the car ride, so I was very upset when we arrived at the vet's office.
Then Dr. Johnson had a hard time getting blood from me. She tried my neck first and I wasn't very cooperative. Normally I am very good and let Mommy or the doctor do whatever they want to me. But I just did not want anyone sticking a needle in my neck, so I thrashed and yelled and scratched until Dr. Johnson gave up and moved to my leg, but not before I got poked three times in my neck. **OUCH OUCH OUCH**
I was real good after that and let her stick me in the leg, but it seemed to take furever for the doc to get enough blood.
Finally, she got the blood she needed, so then it was time for a urine sample.
Since I had peed in my crate, Dr. Johnson had to use a syringe to get a urine sample from me. **OUCH again** That's when Momma's face started leaking. She really, really hates to see me go through unpleasant experiences. I'd already been poked 4 times and when Momma saw Dr. Johnson put that needle to my belly, she broke down crying and told me how sorry she was. She petted me and kissed me and told me how much she loves me. All the lovin's did help a little bit. I'm not sure if it helped me or Momma more....
So, anyway, I'm really happy to be back home! I was greeted heartily by all of my canine furblings. Zelda Marie keeps wiggling her hiney over to me with her squeaky basketball dumbbell and bonking me in the face with it. Poor pup. *rolls eyes* She doesn't understand that I'm sooo not impressed with a dog's squeak toy, but I don't want to hurt her feelings so I just sit and close my eyes and pretend that I think it's really pawsome. As soon as Zeldy decides I've seen enough of her beloved toy, I am going to curl up by my wood stove and take a big, long nap!
Tomorrow or Friday, Dr. Johnson will call Momma and tell her all about my test results. Dr. Johnson agrees with Momma and she's pretty sure I have Hyperthyroidism. After feeling various parts of my body, weighing me (I weighed in at a whopping 5 pounds), listening to my heart and knowing that I've been eating Momma and Daddy out of house and home and throwing up alot, she's almost pawsitive my blood test will tell us that I do have Hyperthyroidism.
Momma says she kind of hopes that is what's wrong with me because it is treatable and then we would know that soon I'll be back to my happy, feeling-good, old self.
Thank you to all my furiends who have been so supportive and purring for me. Nothing is ever quite as bad when one has dear furiends who care and a family who loves them. :)
I'll be sure to update here in my Diary as soon as we hear back from Dr. Johnson about my test results.
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