Our Secret Paws!!!!

We received our Secret Paws yesterday from Pablo in Australia!!! How totally cool is that? He sent us really cute animals that live in Australia! Well, stuffed animals, not the real animals. He sent us a platypus, and a beeyoutiful bloo bird, and a kangaroo with a baby, and a Tasmanian Devil! And they sent this really great Tasmania bag for Maw, and they sent us 4 ping pong balls! And a box! How totally cool is all of this? And Pablo's Mom had a baby 3 weeks early, and it was a total miracle that she got this stuff shipped to us! We are so happy that everything worked out very well, and the baby is wearing the suit that Pablo was afraid that he might have to wear...







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Our Poses

These are some of our Christmas poses. Aren't we just way too adorable????







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Merry Christmas!

Christmas Glitter



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Typical Christmas Tree at Our House

So you will notice that the tree skirt is pulled out from under the tree and G.T. is sleeping on it. Reno is sunning himself under the tree, and Smokey is nearby. Smokey keeps pulling the ribbon off the lower branches as well. And each morning, a couple of ornaments are found on the floor. This is normal at our house.




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Gatsbi Has Diabetes

Here is a picture of Gatsbi from November of 2008. You can see that she is a wee bit on the plump side. She has been on diets, and she puked up the R/D food. She did ok on the W/D, but didn't lose as much weight as she did on the R/D.

Anyway, she suddenly started losing a lot of weight in the last few months, so off to the V-E-T we went. Maw assumed that she had diabetes, but the V-E-T said that she might have kidney problems, or a hyperactive thyroid. Obviously, the thyroid would be the easiest to treat. But oh no. Her tests revealed that she has diabetes. And of course she loves her dry food, and based on what we read about feline diabetes, she should eat much more canned food with lower levels of carbs. She really only likes honest to goodness canned tuna for humans as her wet food. So, the V-E-T said she needs to eat D/M. Well, some of the cats seem to like the dry D/M. Gatsbi doesn't like the wet D/M.



So, we have Gatsbi on the Glipizide, twice daily, and are going to see if this will work with the D/M rather than going with insulin injections. We'll let you know!

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