Chunky Monkey Kitty

Well today i took gizmo back to the vet to get weighed again. I didn't get the best news this time. Gizmo is back up to 13 pounds. I was hoping for him to be around 12 pounds, but i guess after the last weigh in he was determined to gain back the weight he lost. I am going to try feeding the kitties separately now. I give them each half a can of cat food in the morning, and they eat their own portion. Then i was giving them some dry cat food over night. Obviously this isn't working. So I'm still going to give them the morning wet food, but i think i may cut down the dry cat food at night and only leave it out for 10 minutes and then let them go the whole night with out food. I hope this works because if it doesn't I'm not sure what I'm going to do to help Gizmo lose weight.

Oh and i also took gadget to the vet with me this morning. He wouldn't get out of the kitty crate so i just took him with me. He also got weighed today. He is around 7 months old and weighs 9.5 pounds. I am afraid that he is going to get chunky too. He looks completely healthy and only has a slight belly. The vet didn't say anything about Gadget's weight so I'm not really too concerned, but i think cutting down his intake of food may be good for him too. I don't want him to be losing weight, but if i could slow down his progression of gaining weight that would be nice. Plus I am pretty sure that Gadget is mixed with a Siamese breed and they are supposed to be thin cats, so keeping him at his weight now will be good. (Oh yeah, and seeing gadget at 9.5 pounds makes me dread what Gizmo is going to look like if he gets down to his 'goal' weight of 10 pounds. I still think that it is just too small for a cat of his build. To me he looks healthy now. I would like to get him down to under 12 pounds, but 10 just seems so skinny.)

Wish me luck, I'm pretty sure I'm going to need it.

3 Weeks and Weight Loss

I took Gizmo to the vet today to get weighed. I have been having trouble keeping him on a diet, so i was worried that he had been putting the weight he had lost back on. To keep him on a diet the vet had recommended feeding Gizmo and Gadget separately. Good idea in theory, not so great in real life. Neither Gizmo nor Gadget liked the idea of scheduled feedings ( Which is what i had to do to feed them separately). Gizmo wouldn't eat when he was supposed to-which was okay cause he's supposed to be losing weight anyway- but the problem was that Gadget wouldn't eat when he was supposed to either. I didn't want Gadget to be losing weight, he's still just a kitten and that would be bad for him. So i decided to just leave food out for them but i cut the amount i left out by half. I also have been giving them between 1/2 a can and a whole can of cat food each a day. When i give them the wet stuff they eat it right away, so i know Gizmo is getting some food. Then i leave around 3/4 a cup of dry stuff out for Gadget. Gadget will eat the dry stuff when he gets hungry so most of it is gone before Gizmo can get to it. Yay for my hungry kitten. Since Gadget eats the dry stuff before Gizmo can, Gizmo is only getting the regulated wet cat food and losing weight!!!

1week after his surgery-13.3 pounds
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3weeks after his surgery-12.8
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Difference of .5pounds.
Countdown-2.8pounds to go!

P.S. I tried their Halloween costumes on them last night. They didn't like them but i thought it was GREAT. Here are some pictures.

Gizmo wearing his Devil Kitty Costume. (It hides his shaved behind)


Gadget in his witch's hat. Or should it be a warlock hat
because he's a boy?

2 Weeks after surgery

It was two weeks yesterday that Gizmo had his FHO surgery. He is doing very well. He is still limping, but he is back to running down the hallway and being playful. I decided to let him and Gadget play around (even though i was a nervous kitty mom and didn't want them playing too rough). I figured that the playing is only going to help Gizmo in his recovery and if it is too rough for Gizmo then he will stop the playing. So far they seem to be doing really well with each other and are playing all the time.

One way i know that Gizmo is starting to feel a lot better is that he has started to wake me up in the mornings again. Before the surgery Gizmo would come running to my bed as soon as my alarm clock went off, or if he saw me starting to wake up. Then if i decided i was going to sleep for a little longer he would crawl all over me and put his face directly in front of mine and head butt me or lick my nose until i got up. (What a good kitty right? :) ) Well he has started up with the head butting and licking again. Even if i bury my face in the covers he will dig under the covers and smash his face onto mine. That must mean that he is feeling like his old self.

His limp is still a pretty large and noticeable limp. The vet said that he may always have a limp (because in the surgery they cut off part of the bone, so now one leg is longer then the other), but i think that he is still building up muscle and rebuilding a 'false joint' so hopefully the limp gets less noticeable as the weeks go on.

Oh and his hair is slowly but surely growing back. The hair is not just long enough where it doesn't stand straight up and feel spiky. Here is a picture of him at a week and a half after surgery...