No changes in her walking yet unfortunately.  She did come and jump onto my lap briefly this morning though - she used to be very cuddly as a kitten but this stopped when her limp started to get worse.   She is currently playing with a hair band in a tiny amazon box!  Sometimes I wonder if she has become more playful too.   Thanks.   

Quick update on Athena.   The vet has doubled her dosage today - 25mg 3 times a day rather than the 1/2 tabs each time.    She is definitely more playful since starting on the gabapentin,  she is plays fetch every day now, it's lovely to see her playing her favourite game again.  No change in her walking but hopefully the double dose will help, and we have more physio on Thursday.   We also sorted my daughters room at the weekend so we could lower her bed. Athena used to sleep at her feet her every night before the amputation but couldn't get on the bed since (we tried special steps but she wouldn't use them).   I think they are both happy she is back on the bed at night!   

Thanks for all your support. 

Thanks everyone.   We are just back from the physio now. 

She is really pleased with the progress Athena is making,  apparently her leg and back are all feeling so much better now and Athena was able to push back with some of the exercises which she couldn't before.   The physio is happy with her gabapentin dose,  all the extra playing Athena is doing shows she is a much happier cat which shows the gaba is making a difference to her.  She thinks the walking has elements of learned behaviour as that is how she learned to walk with the nerve pain and muscle weakness and we need to build her core muscles and strengthen the remaining leg. We hope that will lead to her walking gait improving.   Her remaining leg has very tight glut muscles so we have some stretching exercises and some other exercises to help.    It may be that she will need more gaba but at the moment it's worth trying to build the strength now we know the pain is much less of an issue.  

She wants to see Athena again in 4-6 weeks to give her time to build the muscles and we will see the vet next month as her booster is due.

Will keep you updated on her progress.   Thanks for all your support. 

So Athena had her booster on Monday (this is her annual vaccination booster).    We saw the vet who has been prescribing her gabapentin.  He says he has seen lots of cats walk like she does and thinks it's a learned behaviour to conserve energy.   He says we are doing the right thing with the physio and gaba, strengthening her remaining leg and controlling the pain but I says I should worry if she always walks in this odd way.    I'm not sure how I feel about this.  I don't want to worry about her but it really doesn't seem normal to me! 

We also had to reduce her Gabapentin to 2 pills a day for a few days before the appointment as I had almost run out and I thought it would be good to see how she manages on less as ideally we want to wean her off them at some point.   She definitely became less playful in this time so obv the gabapentin is still doing something for her.  The vet said if she needed to stay on it for life then she could but apart from the cost then it makes things much harder when we go away.   Obv we will do whatever is best for her though.  

She lets me stretch her leg out most days which is good but we are having less luck with the obstacles for her to walk over - usually she just pounces on them which moves them all out of position!  Luckily all the play should help too!  

Thanks for all your support. 

ps - Jerry her physio's details are on the rehab form which I sent over before if you wanted to get in touch with her.