Evil eye

Evil eye
Originally uploaded by fbruehl

I believe we have had Sakaura for almost two years and this is about as close as these two cats will get to each other. They sometimes actually get close enough to smell each other - which is a far stretch from the early days when all they could do was hiss and spew and fight.

They will never be close buddies, but they are finally tolerant and, best of all, Snoopy is no longer afraid to come out from under the bed.

She roams the house whenever she wants and spends a lot of time being "social".

We need to have her in for a blood check next week to see if the current level of medicine is working. Fingers crossed.

It's been a long time with no update

Snoopy
Originally uploaded by fbruehl

Snoopy continues to improve in my opinion. Of course, her bloodwork has not yet shown that the hyperthyroidism is under control. Her medication has increased from .5 ml a day to 1.5 ml. a day. We go back in a couple of weeks for another set of blood tests. I hope that the levels will be down this time. So far we have had no trouble dosing her, but I suspect that if we increae the dosage much more she will begin to taste the medicine in her food.

We have to give it to her in one dose so maybe if we need to increase we could split it between morning and evening.

But, as I said, her behavior is much more normal. She is no longer terrified of Sakarua. And she is much braver about walking around the house much like she did when we had the other two cats.

I'm not sure how much longer she will hang on. She moves slowly, and she is beginning to need another haircut. But her appetite is good and she plays like a kitten most days. So for now all is good.