Purrkins is in CATSTER MAGAZINE

Purrkins is a Star HE IS IN THE CATSTER MAGAZINE !! OMC
Miss FETA and PURRKINS ARE STARS!

 

How to Care for a Three-Legged Cat

No words that can truly explain how Proud & grateful we are !! Thank you Tripawds if it weren’t for the site for Jerry for You both we wouldn’t be saving lives Purrkins is a shining example of what a Tripawd kitty can do not what he cannot do!! What a QUALITY OF LIFE IT IS!!

I showed Purrkins & he is posing for the next CATSTER issue to arrive with PURRKINS & FETA IN IT! Will see on the print edition?

The article addresses the kitchen cupboards.

We tried blocking access and do when we are not home & at night!

When we are home, his steps come out!

With Purrkins if there is a will, there is a way and with three legs that does not change!  Yes, we would love that aspect to change but what we do is just provide a safer route, even if it means a not human-friendly route!

Would I have done this before NO LOL but yes as we all know this journey changes us!!  Saxton doesn’t climb up the cupboards & never has & still doesn’t with the steps? I think it is a per cat on what kitty does and what you have to do or should do to provide a safer way up and down!!

Purrkins isn’t counter surfing he is going to his favorite lookout spot to layabout;)! A royal pain to move in our little kitchen to open drawers the fridge the oven to use the micro you have to slide the steps out of the way !! This makes Purrkins happy, so Purrkins wins! We will be working on a human & Purrkins friendly route this winter!!

We Celebrated  Purrkins 1 year Ampuversary July 27th !!

We are way late posting I had this in my drafts but never got to post it! Life took a significant turn!  We did celebrate his big day!! We have been MIA for family health issues & more dreaded Cancer!

I know it is strange for some people to celebrate the day we have taken off a limb!! However, that is not exactly what we celebrated! We celebrated a year of Purrkins!!  A year our little man learned his new life on 3 or actually it is a year of Purrkins showing us what a Tripawd Kitty CAN do!! Not what he cannot do;)

I never thought I could love this little guy any more than I already did!! But I absolutely do!! I love him even more!! We got thru this past year together stronger and wiser!

Purrkins is still Purrkins with one less limb so what? Purrkins doesn’t mind he happily hops on like nothing ever happened!

We have lost 1 more lb a total loss of 3.55 lbs! YAAAAY unreal we have got the weight off!! WHOO HOO!
I do worry about the too skinny since we had cancer but we will do what the professionals think is best.

We will forever monitor his food intake & weigh him on a regular basis; there is no other way to ensure he stay’s at a healthy weight! The loss of weight has been amazing to see it has made a HUGE difference in how he is getting around !! To be clear Purrkins got around great anyway before the weight loss, but we knew going into the amp we had to get the weight off! We did notice before his weight loss his one remaining leg would quiver, too much weight on that front leg! He is so much more active it’s wonderful to see!!

I wish he did act like he had three limbs for our sanity purposes!

Purrkins is paying us back by racing around the house, jumping up on everything ZOOM ZOOM & ZOOM ZOOM which is great to see but also worrisome!! I have literally caught him 3 times from slipping off of the kitchen table! He needs suction cups on his feet! Or I have to carpet my kitchen table next?

He races around & does not let a missing leg slow him down, in fact, he is more active & more confident. I am just so thankful to have been right there and my instincts kicked in like they did and Grabbed him!!!! I know I am more reactive because of losing a cat to a fall!

Purrkins tummy hair is almost all grown back in already

Wouldn’t be great to be a cat for a day!?!?

We saw Dr. Matt for our tune-ups & not surprising Purrkins needed Chiro adjustment being Monkey on 3 does come with consequences. I suspected he was off he looked uncomfortable to me again & we actually had an incident that has not happened before Purrkins pooped outside of his litter box (normal poop noted)!! He peed in the box and pooped right outside of the box 2 X !! I knew something wasn’t right!!

His pelvis was out way out of whack further than it has ever been & his atlas. He had his acupuncture done, and Purrkins is back to being the same monkey & back to pooping in the box!

We went for our CBC recheck to the traditional Vet & to check his teeth! He scraped the tartar off his teeth and bought us six months before we need to do the cleaning !!

The Vet wanted to wait on his CBC for a couple of weeks to a month! Since we did our Dr. Matt appt on Friday and went to see him on Saturday, he said we would likely get a false reading from the stress!! He is right; we didn’t think of that we were trying to get to these appointments with the time we had! We can return in a couple of weeks to a month and run in for a blood draw and head right back home !! This vet is just 10 minutes away!

Here is to many many many more years of hopping on!!!

Much love & appreciation !!

XOXOXO