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Oh Lara, his purr brings tears to my eyes. He's come such a long way. Forgive me if you've addressed this already but what's the story w/his diabetes or is he even diabetic? I can't recall. You've done and are continuing to do such a fabulous job w/this boy, Mr. Barnacles Barney Frog. I just love him!
When Angela brought him in for his last exam they retested his glucose and the vet said it was still 'up there'. I don't know if it came down at all. I don't think so or she would have told us. But when I spoke with the vet she said she wasn't surprised and didn't expect for the glucose level to be down by much. She said that when trying to reverse diabetes with diet, it can take awhile to see a difference. They just decided to run the glucose test I guess because they were testing everything else.

One thing that I noticed this evening when I went in to feed him and give meds and clean the litter box is that his 'pee clumps' in the clumping litter are smaller. You would not believe how much pee he was producing each time and the vet said it was related to the diabetes. The pee balls were the size of large grapefruits!! They are getting smaller each day and tonight, they are about the size of a peach. However, there are lots of pee balls in the box for one day. I cleaned it this morning and by tonight there were 4 to scoop. But I think we're making some kind of progress.

Purr Tender wrote:
Something that I do for my cat cottage kids is have a radio going 24/7 so they have some company. My kids listen to the 70s music. By the way, the cat cottage is a small one room cottage just steps away from my back door. It has a nice picture window that opens for fresh air. I have it set up with tons of shelves, a couch, and other places for them to get up high. 8 of my fur kids live there. The rest are in the house with me. Anyway, I thought it would help Barney not feel so lonely.
Thank you for this suggestion. I wish it would help but Barney is deaf. We thought at one point that he might be hearing something because his ears were twitching but he can't hear anything it seems. Maybe this will change down the road if he is healthy enough for surgery and if we can get the ear infection cleared up. But right now, when my husband and I go in there, we say his name and then shout his name and clap our hands and stuff and if he is facing in the other direction, he doesn't hear anything. If we tap on the floor with our feet, he feels the vibrations and turns around and looks a bit startled that we are all of a sudden there.

I was thinking of finding an old tv set and putting it in there. That way he'd have some images to watch. The best thing would be for me to spend more time with him though and when my coworker comes back to work, I'll be able to do that.