Housekeeping
Housekeeping
Three months later
I'm still vacuuming up dog fur,
Each clump a ghost of her.
Maybe this one hair
Came from the previous Shepherd,
Loyal, fierce, and strong,
Or this bit of fluff
My old tortoiseshell cat.
Gone four days later,
Content to pass on at 20 years of age
In the sure knowledge
She'd finally outlasted the damned dog.
Three months laterI'm still vacuuming up dog fur,
Each clump a ghost of her.
Maybe this one hair
Came from the previous Shepherd,
Loyal, fierce, and strong,
Or this bit of fluff
My old tortoiseshell cat.
Gone four days later,
Content to pass on at 20 years of age
In the sure knowledge
She'd finally outlasted the damned dog.
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Freyja
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Mar 19, 2017 08:11PM
You did well to have a cat that lived to 20. That's older than dirt in cat years. I had a cat that lasted until he was 19.
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Freya, what was even more amazing was that she'd been hyperthyroid and on tapazole for most of her adult life. The vet kept warning us that she was at increased risk of either heart or kidney failure from either too high thyroid or too low, respectively. She adjusted to pills twice a day, but hated blood draws with a passion and many razor claws. The last couple of years, I agreed with her that enough was enough, and we used the very approximate measures of her heart rate and weight. Even so, 20 is wow indeed.
Vet care has come a long way since Cleo-the-Torti-Queen. Sounds like both your kitties have painfree methods of medication administration!
Yup. We use Pill Pockets to dose our cats. Nimitz purr-furs the chicken flavor, but the other boys will eat salmon flavor also. Alas, Honor doesn't like them, so we pill her. She pills easily.One cat with ESRF needed subcutaneous fluids every other day to keep her alive. We did 100cc of lactated Ringer's for that. The compounding pharmacy turned her antacid that helped block her phosphorus to her special chicken gravy. She lasted 6 months longer than the vet thought she would.
