Indigo has changed quite a bit from when she first came to live with me. She is, I have determined, a people-cat. She is available for adoption and, I think, would become quite attached to a new person, given time. She is diabetic and responding well to her twice daily injections of insulin. To achieve this, I started giving her injections while sitting with her for a few minutes in the mornings and evenings. I can’t spare much time in the mornings, as I am getting ready for work; nonetheless, I sit with her for ten minutes or so, and give her a shot of insulin then. I sit with her longer after dinner. I also try to give her time before bed.
The interesting thing is that she want me to sit with her. After dinner, especially, she is watchful, and gives a creaky cry when I come in to spend time with her. Throughout our time together, she purrs, even when I am not petting her. Pair her with the right person, and I think she will enjoy a human’s presence very much.
She is not a cat-cat. She doesn’t care for feline companionship, though I keep hoping she will come around, perhaps with a new beast. Her liking of me and her dislike of felines combines when she jumps up on the bed when I sleep. She will stay and purr while I pet her, but, needing to sleep at some point, I stop and roll over. Then she loses interest in being on the bed and usually leaves.
A big change will be coming at the end of October, when we all move. Indie will lose her safe-room - which she doesn’t really need any more - and have to spend all her time among the others. I will also have to adjust when and where I give her insulin. This period should prove interesting. I don’t think Indigo is a cat who likes ‘interesting’…
I'm glad to hear she's doing well. I hope she and the other cats won't be too upset by the move.
ReplyDeleteIt is good she a person cat and likes being around people and that she is doing well, I hope the move isn't to distressing for all of you
ReplyDeleteI, too, hope the move goes as smoothly as possible for all. I also hope Indigo does find her forever home....though if not, she at least has a wonderful long term foster home.
ReplyDeleteShe is such a cutie and you are her happy place!
ReplyDeleteMaybe she will have a forever home before you move.
ReplyDeleteThat won't happen, I'm afraid. No one adopts a diabetic cat.
DeleteIndie certainly has come around. She seems to have bonded with you, so perhaps moving to a new home won't be as traumatic for her as you think.
ReplyDeleteI am glad she is doing well and hope the move will go well for all of you. Maybe she will surprise you being a new home for all of you, and her not moving in with residents already there.
ReplyDeleteI hope that is the case. Sometimes, a new environment, even with the same people and cats, re-sets things. Paws crossed.
DeleteMost of our furry ones dislike disruption to what they know and love...routine. I hope the adjustment time is not long for any of your kitties.
ReplyDeleteHope they change to a new home is easy on Indigo. We moved to a new house 6 months after Precious came to live with us and at first she was very scared and at night when I would get up for my midnight run, she would come running into the bathroom meowing her little head off it took quite a while to get used to the new house.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping very much that she and the other beasts are going to have minimal upset with the change. It's going to be hard on all of you. In differing ways of course.
ReplyDeleteI do hope the adjustment goes well, or better still, she is adopted before the move. She'll need to adjust in either place, but it would be great that she finds a place of her own.
ReplyDeleteWe all know a few who don't enjoy 'interesting'.
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