Update on Marcie!

Well so far it looks like Marcie DOESN'T have diabetes as stated in this post. Took her to the vet under less stressful circumstances with absolutely no bites or scratches. I still have to watch her water intake and eating habits. She'll visit the vet again in another month. Last time her blood sugar reading was about 300 but today it was around 160 or so. Yeah! That's a big difference.

Heheh! Here's a good way to safely put your cat in a carrier without hurting yourself and without over stressing your cat. Quietly hide the cat carrier in the bathroom the night before (preferably when your cat is in some other part of the house). When it comes time for kitty to go drape a towel over them and wrap them in it. Then march them over to the carrier and put them in there butt first (for easy cat insertion put the carrier upright with the door facing the ceiling...it's easier to gently drop them in there and quickly close the cage door). And keep the towel in there for security. I noticed that marcie seemed allot more at ease with the towel although she still yowled in displeasure.

I still have a hard time training my cats to realize that pet carriers aren't negative things. But what can you do? Indoor cats don't go out much and when they do it's for the purpose of visiting the vet or moving to a new place. So I decided to keep one of the carriers out to see if they get more comfortable with it. It's time to end their (especially Marcie's) or at least lessen their negative association they have with carriers. Not sure how that's going to work because the only time I will use it is for said negative purposes (at least it's negative to them).

But now she's back to her old self and not hating my guts for the horrible things I did to her last week. See this picture? That's the good old Marcie that I know. Yes it looks upside down but that's how I took the picture. One of her favorite pastimes is basking in the sun with belly exposed. :)

I found some really cool ideas for getting your cat to like the carrier here! I'll let you know if the felines in our house respond well to these training sessions.

I seriously think that the less-stressful ride to the vet resulted in a better blood sugar and urine reading. They monitored her throughout the day to make sure it was at a normal range and I'm extremely happy about this. But alas! she is considered geriatric so I must be even more vigilant about her health than ever before.