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Scooter
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Age: |
Twelve years old
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Male
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Siamese/Maine Coon cross
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| Home: |
British Columbia, Canada
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I'd like to introduce you to my wonderful boy, Scooter. He is an approximately twelve-year-old Siamese and Maine Coon cross. I adopted Scooter from a local classified site in 2011. I fell in love with him on the first visit and brought him home. However, what his previous owners failed to tell me was that he was very sick. He was suffering weight loss, hind end weakness, excessive thirst and hunger, and excessive urination. I took him to the vet shortly after, and he was diagnosed with Feline Diabetes and hyperglycemia.
He has since been getting the proper treatment for his diabetes. Just like a human diabetic, he eats low carbohydrate food, has his blood glucose tested multiple times a day, and he gets insulin shots twice a day. He improved by leaps and bounds once we began treatment, and he looks and acts like a completely different cat.
Even with diabetes, he is the best companion I could have ever asked for - full of personality, intelligent and affectionate - but not clingy or needy. He is always in the same room as me, and sleeps on his back beside me on the couch, or on my feet in bed. He loves to sit in the window sill and watch all the cars go by. He also loves catnip, and we plan to grow our own plants in the garden this year for him. He knows his diabetes treatment routine and will come find me and meow at me when it's shot time. He is not afraid of all the needles at all - he knows that it all helps makes him feel better.
Although I adopted him as an adult, and was not expecting to learn much from him, as I had owned cats for many years. He has taught me so much, though, and has left a huge imprint on my heart. His disease has created an incredible bond between us that I have never experienced with any other cat before. I am so glad we found him when we did, and I'm sure he feels the same way.
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