Showing posts with label old cat behaviour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old cat behaviour. Show all posts

21.7.09

CATS ON TUESDAY

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CATS ON TUESDAY


Our little Lisa is really getting old. We have to prepare ourselves that she will leave us sooner or later. I hope it will be the latest possible. Lisa is now 18 years old. So far it all went quite well, she got on our nerves as usual sitting somewhere in the middle of the house and croaking loud without any reason. But even that she doesn't do anymore.

She is completely deaf now and I have to approach her so that she can see me and touch her carefully otherwise she is scared. She doesn't eat anymore or only a little. I try to give her all the things she loved in the past, but even that doesn't work. She also has diarrhera each time she eats a little. I have put a litterbox in the office which she has choosen as her room. During the nights I lock her in so she isn't bothered by the others.

Rosie who always tried to play with her tail or to attack her for playing, now goes around her in a big cercle. Even Pookie who always had hissed at her doesn't do it anymore either. It looks as if they feel that she is defenseless.

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She mostly sleeps in her basket

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sometimes she walks a little around and would sit with us in the living room.

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her eye is running too. On this picture she looks fine, but she became very skinny. I don't want to stress her with running to the vet. As long as she doesn't suffer and leads her life as an old lady, I am happy. If ever she starts to suffer then I will call our vet. I want that she dies here in her house and nowhere else. I only hope it won't be too soon. I always tell myself that she had 18 years of a happy life without any worries.

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Rosie spends her time with grooming to make a beauty out of herself

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Arthur watches over the street on our neighbors little wall

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and when he comes back (usually quite colorful) he tries to get white again !

17.2.09

CATS ON TUESDAY - The old Lady

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CATS ON TUESDAY


Lisa is the first cat I have which by getting old becomes more and more difficult. Max and Piccola lived with me for 20 years and when they were old they slept a lot, loved to be cuddled and then they got kidney troubles and I had to say them good bye.

Lisa is now 17 and really a very bad old lady. She wakes me up several times during the night by yowling like an old pigeon, it has nothing to do with a meauw anymore. The pill against anxiety helped, but it is not easy at all to give it to her every day, because she became more and more suspicious and runs away when she only sees me. It really couldn't continue like that.

If I don't move and get up immediately she would start to make other loud noises than her cooing. She scratches at the door, or wardrobe or any other thing available and a few nights ago she attacked a plastic bag which I had left on the floor. I can tell you the noise woke me up and that's what I saw


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Lisa pulling and biting at the bag until I switched the light on ! Meanwhile I had realized that the poor thing is completely deaf now and reacts only on light or vibrations. She had also started to poo in the house. I thought over and over what to do. Giving her these medication all the time was not a solution and didn't help for the pooing. So I imagined to be deaf not to be able to see in the dark anymore and maybe being attacked by her sisters. Probably I also would yowl for help.

So what I have done, I prepared Mr. Gattino's office as her private room during nights. There was already a basket in and a scratch post. I just added a small litter box only for her own use and a bowl with water and food. Before I go to bed I lock her in this room and apparently she loves it. It's now the 3rd night I haven't heard anything and she didn't damage anything either. She used the litter box and slept in her basket. The food bowl is empty in the morning when I open the door. Then she greets me and goes outside for a little walk and I put the litter box and food bowls away until she goes to bed again. During the day she shares her life as usual with the others. Wish me luck that it continues like that !

Rosie, Arthur and Pookie are doing their 24 h sleep because it is cold and wet outside.

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24.6.08

CATS ON TUESDAY - LISA THE TERROR

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CATS ON TUESDAY



Lisa is a terrible cat ! She terrorizes us, her humans ! She has found out that when she makes her plaintive noises she had done when she suffered from anxity, either one of us would run to see what happens and then pet and feed her.


Now Lisa feels so good that she loves to wake us up during the nights. Last night I woke up because she meowed so strangely, it sounded so sad that I jumped out of my bed, to see what happened to the poor girl. The poor girl was very satisfied of the result, followed me purring in the kitchen and ate a bowl full of food. I returned to my bed and tried to fall asleep again. But Lisa didn't want me to sleep, when she had finished eating she sat in the middle of my room and started again. First soft and plaintive, then angry and then furiously louder and louder ! It sounded like a mixture between meauwing and croaking like a frog, a very special noise indeed. I didn't move. I heard her scratching at the closet, then at the door and as I still didn't move, I heard her pee !

I said : "Lisa stop it !"then louder LISA !!! and as this didn't help I throw a book in her direction. Lisa didn't bother, she just continued. I switched on the light, Lisa stopped and looked at me happily. If she could smile I am sure she would have smiled from one ear to the other. I switched on the light and looked at the damages. I was considering a murder ! But then suddenly as if she had read my thoughts she stopped and disappeared. I cleaned up, and now fully awoken returned to my bed. Next day, Lisa slept the whole day peacefully while I was swearing silently, each time I saw her laying in her basket !

This night I woke up all by myself to go to my litterbox. Lisa didn't show up. Strange. I looked in the whole house because I wanted to avoid that she would wake me up later when I was asleep again. She slept peacefully on the sofa. I said : "Lisa come on and eat !" She looked at me as if I was just escaped of a mad house and didn't move. Ah ! I thought, not with me !! and I pushed her from the sofa. Slowly she followed me in the kitchen, I fed her and returned to my bed. I had taken my revenge ! I woke HER up ! But at 5 am she was there again. I think I will always be the looser !



The fur a little thin, but still in good shape, she


assists me in the bathroom





She started playing a few weeks ago, exactly as if she was a kitten !



and while I have dark rings under my eyes, Miss Lisa enjoyes a nice morning grooming !



Arthur apparently had put earplugs in his ears !