Hello all. I haven't updated on Pippin for a while. Which is always a good thing. In May over the holiday my husband accidentally left Pippin's Prozinc (insulin) out for about 3-4 hours. Just in that time the insulin went bad. Of course it was a Saturday morning. So we gave him his normal shot Saturday night and his insulin stayed high. So we realized right away that the insulin went bad. Well... of course it was a holiday weekend so the vet office wasn't open on Monday. I was very worried about the glucose numbers so Monday morning we went ahead and called one of the local emergency vets who said they had insulin and that we would just have to come in and pay $100 for the vet appointment and they would sell us insulin because they had a full pharmacy. So I drove Pippin all the way out to the vet. We got totally wrong information. I get there and I tell them where his numbers were sitting at (which if I remember correctly was about 450). I say he is on Prozinc. The vet tech was like... well I've never heard of that, they only have human insulin. UGHHHH! I didn't want to switch Pippin's insulin which I thought would be worse then having him on no insulin. Plus, human insulin doesn't really work on cats. I then asked if maybe they had vetsulin and she said she would check. She was gone for a very long time. Finally, a totally different person comes in and says they just don't think there is anything they can do for me. Annoying. Why when we called did they act like they could help??? They didn't charge me anything and I left.
So Tuesday I called my normal vet and explained what was going on and why I needed to come pick up insulin right then and there. They were nice. I got up there an hour later when they told me to come and it wasn't ready, but I told them I had to wait because he really needed it. So he got back on his insulin again and has been fine ever since.
We are about to sell our house and buy a new one, so we installed new carpet everywhere in the house. Prior to having it installed we personally pulled up all the areas where the cats had peed. There is no better time to get under that carpet. If your cats pee a lot in certain spots it will stink no matter how much you shampoo that carpet. So we pulled up the carpet and put down Kilz in all these spots. The carpet installers still threw out the carpet we pulled up. The new carpet is amazing and smells amazing! HAHAH! Diabetic cats will pee a lot before you discover they are diabetic and will keep peeing in the spots that smell like their pee. Also, the year before Merry passed away he couldn't make it down to the basement so having the little box in the living room pretty much stopped both cats from peeing anywhere else.
I'm nervous about selling the house with a cat. I plan on taking him with me every time the house gets shown. I don't want to leave him here with strangers coming in and out. We'll see how that adventure goes and I'll update here with any advice for those of you who might also be trying to sell a house with a kitty living there.
