>Give our best to Othello.
>Jim Nichols
Thanks for the good wishes for Othello--I will pass them on. "Poo"
definitely looks like he was an excellent kitty. Othello has superior
ear hair however. :-) He is still a youngster and I hope will have
many years of good health. We obtained him about 10 months ago from
the Animal Rescue League in Boston. (He will deny any humble origins)
We lost Portia this time last year after 17.5 years. She was the only
cat I had as an adult and was very very sweet and well behaved.
Marnie was right stating I was her favorite. Oddly though she liked
Marnie she despised her identical twin Kate for at least 10 years.
She did not warm up to visitors quickly but did take to Moose
immediately.
She has been losing weight and was borderline hyperthyroid in the
summer of last year. Oddly no one has developed a Kittie TSH assay.
There is some data on using one canine assay as confirmatory
evidence---I called the first author in Vancouver and she
kindly discussed Portia's case with me. I did have tuna flavored
tapazol compounded by a pharmacist and it did normalize her thryoid
function.
Portia had a more disturbing reason for the continued weight loss
however and was found to have a horrible widely metastatic malignancy.
She was doing OK for a bit though started to fail while Marnie was
away. I arranged my schedule so I could come home for lunch to hand
feed her. She did not keep herself well hydrated but I gave her 50cc of
lactated ringers daily. The OR wondered why the endocrinology division
required all this LR, but were fine with it . I could see she felt OK
for a couple weeks but the last day I just kept her going till Marnie
came home. I had the vet's cell number and he came to our house right
after Marnie arrived as not to have to stress Portia further.
I still miss her.
I had a few final film portraits but she just looked too thin and ill.
The shot below was a day or two before. She helped me test many Zuikos
and the last shots were with one. I still have not processed many
shots. Maybe this year.
Perhaps sounds over the top for a pet, but we did nothing heroic and
all the above was not difficult for me to arrange.
Mike
http://www.olyendomike.com/Other/Portia/14254595_fzSbbR#1365227199_q755jzw-L-LB
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