At 08:18 AM 2/26/03 -0600, gumbie tygress wrote:

>> result in his insulin dose being upped. He has been losing weight in 
>> recent months. He is getting old, will soon be 19. Old kitty.
>
>Very old kitty.
>Could be he has a thyroid thing going like Tenzing did, too....
>Good ol' Tenzing -- calm as a dog about taking pills.

No thyroid problems.  The vet did a complete metabolic panel when we took
him a couple weeks ago when he was peeling skin off like a sunburn and
losing hair.  He's much better on that now, and since there were no
metabolic red flags and no microbial red flags, we attribute it to stress
when we were doing all the painting, tiling, carpeting, and moving-in.
He's doing much better.

I don't know about "calm as a dog" about pills, though.  With Diamond, we
had to use a pill popper.  Well, try using it, anyway.  He got around that
pretty quick.  Then we disguised the pill in his favorite food -- cheese.
Most times that got it down him.  Sometimes he'd find it out and spit out
the pill and eat the cheese.  Rotten dog!

Veloci--that's my old cat--raptor

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