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Max is a beautiful Tabby who loves being the center of attention. He would make the perfect companion for a person who has diabetes as he requires a shot of insulin everyday.
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Where is one place that your cat can sit, but you can't? Your lap.
The domestic house cat is a small carnivorous mammal. Its most immediate ancestor is believed to be the African wild cat. The cat has been living in close association with humans for somewhere between 3,500 and 8,000 years.
Every cat is different, and each has his own way of dealing with a crisis and deciding what is a crisis.
A naturally timid cat may be afraid of many things and spend a lot of his life in hiding, while a naturally confident cat will be less fearful and will usually recover more quickly from scary events.
For example, one cat may confront a strange dog by hissing, spitting, and puffing out his fur to make himself look big. Or he may decide to cut his losses and beat a hasty retreat. Some cats are so overwhelmed with fear that they simply freeze, too terrified to run. A really laid-back cat, on the other hand, may not see the dog as a threat; he may simply sniff the dog and walk away.
My cat needs meds also. I learned to administer through a reward system. She is much less resistant now.
Agreed. When my cat was sick and refused her meds, I exchanged the pills for liquid form meds which I used a needleless syringe to shoot into her mouth and fed her a frozen piece of chicken afterward. Life became much easier then.
Some cats have a little “sweet” spot at the base of their tail that they love to have scratched or thumped. You might call it the cat’s “g-spot.” Judging from their behavior, I’d say that it stimulates the pleasure center in their brain. Whether the feeling is sexual or not is anyone’s guess. It’s hard to figure out what another human being is thinking, let alone a creature of another species, especially one that seems to display an array of baffling behaviors the way cats do.
Do cat lovers have an opinion about this subject? One friend assures me that the feline enjoyment of spanking is very much related to sex. That’s what her vet told her, she says. Besides, she once noticed that Carlton, her cat, had “a huge erection” from getting thumped on the rump (or “tom-tomming,” as my friend calls it). Carlton is very demanding about getting tom-tommed. He insists on it daily, regularly, several times a day—well, almost around the clock. Gets downright ornery if he doesn't get a piece of action, so to speak.
I strongly believe that people that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. I think someone with a diabetic kid should adopt Max. They could take their shots together!
Never knew that a cat could have diabetes. I'm assuming that it's type 1. Is there such thing as type 2 diabetes also for cats?
Whenever you change your cat's diet, slowly change the ratio of new to old food that you feed until you are feeding only the new diet. Monitor your cat's BG and symptoms closely when changing diets to help prevent hypoglycemic episodes.