[Ciarnet]

I swear purple will be heading out in the next few days, things have just been over the top busy here lately. He is quite ready to journey home.

[Ciarnet]

Thank you so much! You are the best.

[Ciarnet]

Dixon has a store?!? Road trip time!

[Ciarnet]

Purple is on his way out the door on Monday after he attends a final birthday party here to round out his visit. It’s been a blast having him here but he is definitly ready to go home.

[Ciarnet]

I’m so tickled I already had the sculpt my swappee wanted! Time to get started!

[Ciarnet]

I’m in!

[Ciarnet]

The Pier One web site has them for a dollar with free shipping.

http://www.pier1.com/Basic-Glass-Votive-Holder/1001450,default,pd.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PLA&utm_campaign=google_pla&utm_content=1001450&s_cid=pla0000001&kpid=1001450

[Ciarnet]

Purple did ask for a wee bit more time, he should be on the road back to home base at the end of next week, we have two more stops he was all excited to see before he hopped the post line back home.

[Ciarnet]

Reminds me of this stuff. http://www.whatisall.com/housing-and-garden/what-is-yellow-mold.html

[Ciarnet]

Purple Fuzzy has landed, we are off on a whirlwind tour of St. Louis and the local area and he should be back on his way home the week after. He’s quite sorry to be heading home late but he took a couple of mail detours along the way.

[Ciarnet]

I just got mine back from the postal service today. I’m not quite sure why they felt the need to return them too me since they were weighed for postage but I’ll get them back out once again in the mail hopefully tomorrow after work. I’m really sorry for holding things up.

[Ciarnet]

Purple should be here any day now. We have a full run around St. Louis planned, hopefully including the City Museum, the Arch, the Zoo and perhaps the Botanical Gardens.

[Ciarnet]

Mine have hit the mail today, I sent them out express so hopefully they will make it in time.

[Ciarnet]

If you need a place to send Purple, Kimk, I would very much like to play host!

[Ciarnet]

It really is quite treatable! Our fellow developed the full blown version and was on insulin injections twice a day. When we got him at eight months old he was already fourteen pounds in weight and we had a really difficult time keeping his weight in check. We took him to the vet straight away and they put him on a restricted diet, special food, the whole nine yards. He was on the best of foods, I think that stuff was costing us more a month than going out to dinner at a really nice resturant (of course he was absolutely worth it). He stayed on an excellent diet, we never took him off of what our vet recommended and still at the age of six we started to notice our boy was not acting like himself. He plummeted from eleven pounds down to eight despite us taking him to the vet repeatedly. They finally tested him and he was in the high 600 range, I about had a heart attack.

So we stated the run of insulin, first the atrificial kitty version and then onto the full blown human insulin. It wasn’t easy and it was a lot of both home testing and vet testing but we got it under control fairly quickly and he was the happy lug he had always been again. He lived until the rip old age of just shy of fifteen, almost ten years of being diabetic.

It is not your fault, though I understand perfectly what you mean. I think I cried for about a week straight everytime I looked at him because I felt like I failed him in some way. You can do everything right, and sometimes it just happens was what the vet told me. It is excellent you caught it so early and that the numbers were quite reasonable still. We ended up with our neighbors cat after she found out he was diabetic and was going to put him to sleep. We have had him a year now and his issues are fully controled by diet and checking his urine with strips at home. You just have to make sure they are the only cat using the litter box. The testing is a pain but they are worth every bit of it.

I wish you good luck with your kitty! Keep your chin up.

[Author]

Posts