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Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 163
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 8:18 am: | 
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she's been given liquid prednisone for the arthritis pain, 1 ml initially and then 0.5ml 12 hours later if required and repeated for as long as needed.
we've also discovered she has 'low grade cataracts in both eyes' and as she's over 12 years they won't operate (given the verbal quote for a similiar aged dog, i can see why!), and we have had her age-related hearing loss confirmed.
and yes, there is some degree of age-related 'vagueness' that sets in when everything else is aggravated. The manager of the disability advocacy agency where i work has said Kitty is over-eager to fit into 'our family with disability', and a colleague at the other job suggested i bring her into a centre-based social support group for frail-aged people!
We've already had several mornings of below zero temperatures (minus 5 degrees C at 8 am, which is quite unusual), and it's not officially winter yet. i think this may her last winter, or penultimate one. <sigh>
thanks for all your support last week, folks! |
Calliope
Citizen
Username: Calliope
Post Number: 295
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 9:21 pm: |
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Just checking on the old girl---how is she faring?
Just as a word of encouragement, Joanne, my grande dame lived to 22!
Calli |
Nancy - LibraryLady
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3506
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 10:32 pm: |
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Give Mins a hug from me too! What could be better than being your kitty,Jo? |
tabby
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Username: Tabby
Post Number: 289
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 8:57 am: |
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I have had 2 female Siamese who lived to be 21 and 18. Currently the oldest of our 4 kitties is 10. We have a young female Siamese now who is 2 (a baby!). When our last senior Siamese was no longer able to jump up on the bed, we put a step stool next to it so she could just walk up.
Meow,
Tabby |
Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 166
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 5:17 pm: |
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Minnie is doing pretty well thank you, but it's been an ordinary week. She's better when people are home, especially curly-haired female people (me). We (me) talk to her, and play a little more than the bearded, gruff testosterone-loaded computer-hermit types, and we smell better - problem is, HE's the one she's in love with!!! 
I have no doubt she'd go on for many many years, I just wonder if it's kind to let her deteriorate simply because we love having her around. It's not like there's a Suuported Accommodation Facility For Aged Pets she could live in and we'd visit (oh yuk - how awful a concept that would be!) Anyway, today will be not so cold and so not so painful but very lonely as we will both be working away from home. I'd better leave the TV on  |
Calliope
Citizen
Username: Calliope
Post Number: 309
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 9:27 am: |
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I just wonder if it's kind to let her deteriorate simply because we love having her around.
Ahhhh, Joanne, just rolling that thought around is so difficult.
They are never with us long enough----yet somehow I think they let us know when the time is right.
My grande dame was actually pretty healthy until the end. She did have the bouts of vagueness you speak of. She would sometimes sit in the middle of a room, or face a wall, and meow ,plaintively, as though she had lost her way.
One of us would then retrieve her, and console her. Having our hands on her calmed and comforted her.
That last day I took her to the vet, she let me know she would not be coming home again. I held her, and felt her little loving heart stop. Fortunately, (for me,too, because I was inconsolable)it was so peaceful and fast. But she definitely let me know when she was ready. I think we are privileged to hear our companion animal's hearts, if we just listen.
Minnie will let you know, when the time is right.
Calli |
Soparents
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Username: Soparents
Post Number: 707
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 9:35 am: |
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Joanne, I am sure kitty loves being around you as much as the other way round. I have been faced with this situation twice and both times did whatever we could while the kitties were not in "terminal" pain.
There is always a time when either nature takes over, or a vets guidance is needed, but in your heart you will know what is best, as you love kitty and you always do the best for the people you love.
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Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 175
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 9:52 am: |
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I've been meaning to say, Calli, that your pic looks so much like Minnie if the grin were just a little smaller and there were just a little less orange around her face. Her orange bits are like flashes, a bit neo-punk bright when she was a kitten in '91.
It's been a good weekend so far, despite the radical makeover in the garden (not to mention the migraines she and I shared from the noise and dust). The rosellas (a kind of green Australian parrot) who are now homeless set up an awful screeching and she basically glared at them as if to say 'Get a life!' then curled up for a snooze.
Soparents, I gotta ask: why the Union Jack?  |
Soparents
Citizen
Username: Soparents
Post Number: 712
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 10:24 am: |
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I'm English..  |
Soparents
Citizen
Username: Soparents
Post Number: 713
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 10:24 am: |
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Doesn't it look nice and bright??!!!! |
Calliope
Citizen
Username: Calliope
Post Number: 310
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 10:25 am: |
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Joanne,
The little picture looks like an amalgam of my Grande Dame and the Wild Child (my old girl was a dilute calico and the little girl is a patch tabby with amber finger prints all over her classic brown tabby self)
Now, it will always remind me of Minnie, too
Calli |
tabby
Citizen
Username: Tabby
Post Number: 294
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 3:47 pm: |
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Why don't we post pictures of our kitties? I would love to see your Minnie, JOanne and your girl, Calli.
I will do a separate post, all the pictures are on Mr. Tabby's laptop.
Meow,
Tabby |
Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 177
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 6:21 pm: |
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So now I'm inspired to finally do something with some kind of picture-taking device! give me a few days to wrok something out and I'll see what I can do!!
Soparents: how did a good English girl (for some reason you sound female in my head) land up on MOL? |
Soparents
Citizen
Username: Soparents
Post Number: 731
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 6:37 pm: |
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I started on MOL as most do, looking at the classifieds etc and THEN I began to read all the posts about South Orange and it went from there.. |
Calliope
Citizen
Username: Calliope
Post Number: 315
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 8:01 pm: |
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Tabby,
I could really bore this entire board with all my cat pictures! Do you think there are enough ailurophiles to makre it worthwhile? If you decide to do it, I will contribute---but we had better be prepared to field jokes and
recipe suggestions.
smile
Calli
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tabby
Citizen
Username: Tabby
Post Number: 295
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, June 3, 2006 - 10:20 pm: |
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Hi Calli,
Yes, for sure! I do think that there are alot of "Cat People" on MOL. I also thought that there should be an MOL cat lovers F2F. We could all bring pictures of our furry feline children.
Mr. Tabby is still working on his laptop, so I won't get access until tomorrow morning to post the pictures.
My guys are telling me its time to go to bed. My big orange alpha male is already curled up by my pillow. |
Nancy - LibraryLady
Supporter
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3530
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 4, 2006 - 12:44 am: |
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If it gets too late (like right now) my little orange one Minkus(don't ask  ) bats at me and the key board until I give up my MOL addiction and get into bed so that he can curl up between my legs. What we don't do for our kidd(tt)ies!!! |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 5254
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 4, 2006 - 1:41 am: |
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Joanne
As everyone has said Minnie will let you know. Continue to love her and do what you can to make her comfortable as long as you can. |
Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 189
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 4, 2006 - 2:41 am: |
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Minkus??? Now I gotta ask...! |
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