Strange night last night. Pain meds maybe, or just not comfy, or we have a food aggressive kitty lol.  David got bit yesterday when he tried to take the (empty) food bowl. He tried to nail me last night doing the same. I was a bad mama.. I swatted back and told him to behave. Oh the look I got... he sulked a bit and then got over it. He is not on much for meds and only has a couple of days left. I have one of the buprenorphine, and I think 3 gaba left. I gave him one of each last night and he was ok for the rest of the evening. Fancy Feast, the Fancy Feast broth are working well.  I did like you did Holly with the gaba in the juice, and syringed it to him.. that was so much better than trying to mix it with tuna and wait for him to eat it. His appetite is slowly getting better with the gravy like foods.

I wish I could move his crate into the sunroom during the day, but that thing is HUGE! You have to break it down just to get it in and out of the room, let alone downstairs. I open the window and turn the ceiling fan on for him when the days are nice. Soon, hopefully he will be out of the crate. I just want to keep an eye on that incision a little longer where it is more controlled. 

Oscar it a total trip, he is such a smart kitty. He has to do things the way HE sees fit, regardless of the consequences. He really is funny, and sweet. That is the one that races me up the stairs every morning and evening to drink water out of the sink and make sure I brush my teeth correctly He also helps me wash dishes, lol. 

Yes the days have been a blurr...first week back to work, I need another vacation lol...I can see one of these 8:00 bedtimes coming real soon 

He is slowly eating and drinking more, still no .  I just got off the phone with my husband and he told me that Oscar removed some of the blanket from Huckleberry's crate again, Huck was standing in his litter box (on the one leg) and playing toesies with Oscar. They were both perky, seemed to enjoy the play, no hissing, growling, or foul play. Now he is sleeping. David adds a small amount of water to the wet food when he has dried it up, so he is getting some fluids along with the food.  

I am going to close the door to Huckleberry's room for the first day or so when I open up the crate, just to let him adjust. Andy will be my guinea pig when I finally do allow visitation, and it will be totally supervised. If that goes well I may let Andy stay while I rustle Oscar up just because Andy seems to bring peace to things.  When I eventually open that door, Huck will have full run of the house except for rooms that have doors.  Our house is so open that other than closing doors off to the rooms, it will be impossible to keep him either upstairs or downstairs because of the other furbabies. I had a cat get caught on a baby gate one time and he really hurt himself so I do not want to go there again. I had planned on fixing the gate that I returned with something really tall in front of it so that he could not scale it or get caught up in it. 

Back to work 

Thank you, thank you!  I am so relieved. And your support has been amazing and so appreciated by our family! I came home tonight not knowing what I would walk in to 24 hours total medication free.  My little one was wonderful! I just head butted him, gave him a good massage, inconspicuously inspected his incision, and just gave and got lovin' Every time I come home I rip his den apart, shove two or three meds down his throat, and talk sweet to him. Tonight I decided that I was just going to love on my little man and not look at the bit of litter scattered on his pee pad. We only changed out his litter box. He was all purrrrs and knitting when I sat with him, oh my .. it was wonderful! I conned the rest of the crew into the bedroom with treats... we gave all of them treats while we sat together and they were all content 

I spoke with the Doc today. She was concerned about my disappointment with the experience.  I was a good girl!!!  I kept my composure (surprisingly) and explained that I thought it was shocking to have them charge me 78.00 for a bottle of antibiotics that I could get retail online for 32.00-38.00. Her response was that you never know where that stuff is coming from, blah blah blah...

*Cough cough* anyhow.. I got my records back, we bartered back and forth for about 15 minutes, and I left on a very neutral but positive note. 

Yay! I can change color now! 

Hehehe.. and my thought for the evening:

Hugs, kitty and puppy scratches and nuzzles 

Hi!

All is going pretty well. I have come to the conclusion that house life for the Hucksters is going to be like everything else we have done. One day at a time. He came out of the crate yesterday at first ONLY when I was not in the room, lol.  Once he came out, he guarded the door as if to say "This is my escape hatch... just go ahead and open it and I will be FREE!" Sigh.. he even walked around for David.  Of course going in to the room foot first did not help my dilemma lol. I went in, he ran back to his crate. I even went up with some delicious stinky food and placed it outside of his crate on one of his blankets that smelled like him. It took forever but finally he came out just briefly, sniffed around and then back to the crate. After I closed the doors to the crate we all went in with toys and catnip. The boys showed him how to play a little, and he was good.  He slept crated last night and this morning he came out and sat on my lap knitting in the air. I could not believe that he was actually sitting on me, it was so nice. I took Andy in with me a little later and they got some nose to nose time, then Huckles decided that Andy needed a bath.. THAT was funny! Andy looked at him like " what on earth are you doing??" But it was all good So today we have been in and out, he has been out of the crate a few times and is getting a little more curious. There is tons in that room to explore, but we have a young man that until just a few weeks ago had never been in a house. Never saw furniture, or curled up on a bed or chair, so this is all new to him and a little scary. I have the window to his room cracked a little for fresh air and he heard a dog start to bark like crazy. First thing he did was head to his box. He did not realize that he was safe. I kept talking to him and petting him, he finally realized he was safe.  This is all new for me also. I realized yesterday that this will be a learning experience for all of us. I have never tried to adopt an adult kitty that is a purebred feral, lol. Any that I have handled have been ready to domesticate, or so young that I was able to teach them early. I probably need to do more reading up on this, I believe I am out of my element here. For now we will take baby steps and go slowly.  As he progresses I will give him run of the room more and more, but I don't want to overwhelm him. If I go slowly and take my time, maybe he will be like Petra's kitties and learn to love having a forever home. He certainly seems to love David and I. The house thing? I think he is uncertain. That's ok, I have all the time in the world 

I have a few pictures that I am fighting to upload. Trying Amazon Drive for the first time.. don't think I like it