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It is going to take a lot of patience with kitty on a diet. Nacho would bang on the door, meow and meow and it was sorta sad. I had him on the science diet R/D and he hated that so I put him on low cal regualr cat food and he didn't like that either so I thought I would mix his favorite with the diet stuff and he would sort it out....so finally I just gave him what he liked but cut the portions and gave him little bitty treats ( those tooth cleaning hard treats) about 4 or 5. And the hell of it was just as soon as kitty was starting to trim down some we whould have to go somewhere and guess what the lazy kittysitter did...free fed him!!!!!!!! :^( Not only did it set his progress back, it took forever to get him back on a diet.

When we came back from Europe last summer, the first thing I noticed was something wrong in the iris of his eye. Took him in and he had a partial detached retina. Was going to take him to a specialist but first ( since I had to wait to get him in for 10 days) I had his teeth cleaned and that is when they found out he had hypertension. We put him on meds and slowly he started to improve but then one Sunday he started to crash but I thought it was the medicine and I took him in the next morning and his bloods were a mess..anemia, no platelets, everything that could go wrong did. He died that afternoon.. I still miss him a lot.

Kearen is pretty active, and honestly does not eat that much.
But she IS a hefty cat, which stumps everyone.
All blood tests came back perfectly normal, which should not be considering her size.
She is rather short of body length yet has huge paws.
(Maine Coon/ Norwegian Forest cat sized paws on a cat the body length of a Manx.)

I worry about her life crazy.
Another odd part, she normally likes ALL other cats.
Save ONE.
'Momma' cat was going after her kittens, hissing and swatting at them, and slapped Kearen in the face claws and all.
Kearen does hold a grudge quite well and quite long.
Ever since then, she has been chasing 'Momma' cat around and literally slapping her around like a rag doll.
('Momma' is the size of an Abyssinian, very thin and tiny.)
It's like watching a Battleship play with a pleasure cruiser.
The only POSITIVE note on this one is that KIearen is lighter by about two pounds just from chasing 'Momma' cat.

When I get the new apartment, thankfully, Kearen will NOT be 'mixed in' with 'Momma' cat.