HURRAY! Tiger is fully recovered!

Just a short message, because I want to scream out loud....

In one of the last blogs, I mentioned Tigers progress. And... I can tell you the biggest miracle has happened. Tiger is fully recovered! Last week I noticed her reflexes had returned. Today I found out all her senses are back! She is aware of everything now, resulting in the motion cats make when their paw get dirty or wet... trying to shake of the dirt! She does whenever her toes touch something unexpectedly. Also I can no longer touch it unnoticed, no more squeesing, unless I want to get hurt. And.... she walked backwards! I tried to trick her with the laser light, and she did walk backwards perfectly! She could not have done if she didn't have full control over her motion.

This morning I was woken up by her and Grey. It can make me so happy, to have these two in my life! And I just got emotional about Tiger's miracle, and like she can do so well, she came snuggle up in my arms, and licked away the tears. Can I have this moment forever? 

My little girl!!! So proud of her :-)

To buy a cat in the bag...

It is a Dutch saying. Maybe it is quite simular in English,  but we say this when we bought something that is in the end quite useless or even one big mistake.
Of course, I took this saying not literally because I love my kitties to death and never ever considered them to be a mistake. But... Grey in the end found a new hobby which makes him for a change star of a blog!


Grey is very very attached to this particular bag. Though I have many of this big shoppers laying around the house, this yellow one is his favorite. He now spends a lot of his time exploring the wonders of it in and out. First time I caught him, it was filled with paper, since I use this one to collect paper waste. As you can imagine, the paper was shattered all over the floor. Before I knew it, I noticed this bag to be moving around the house. I expected Tiger to be in it, but a grey tail revealed the truth. It was Grey.

I really got a bit nervous when he managed to put his head through the handle. Because if I would come up to help him out, he would be scared he did something not allowed (he usualy is, because he has probably been chased off so many times in his past he is so easily being cleared out of the place). And if he was running away it would seriously be hazardous standing on the bag that strapped his neck. On the other hand, it was a matter of time for Tiger to arrive and terrorise him as well.

I decided to watch it from a distance, and take pictures. Luckily he took his head out of the handle. And then the bronze monster arrived on the scene. With a huge leap she jumped up on the bag, making Grey come out of it.

Together they explored the bag a bit more. Then Tiger left, she had some more management jobs to do. For she is Queen of the House, some rather important jobs have to be done and contact being kept.

Grey on the other hand, decided to have some good sleep on this new love... the yellow bag.
No picture of this available :-(

Tiger's progress

So much good news about Tiger's progress!
She had her last acupuncture treatment 2 weeks ago, the vet told me that now it is matter of waiting. She gave her treatment to develop her muscles more, because clearly she is on her way to full recover. But after we got back home I was so afraid things got worse. Because now Tiger was walking on her folded paw. But luckily the skin never got open. But it didn't look nice to see her walk this way.
Good news was that she only did this on the carpet. And I am planning to remove the carpet as soon as I can afford it and it suits in my plans.

But now, 2 weeks later I quited her medication. After 8 weeks the progress was not getting better, and for the problems I gave it, it had finished working. The medication was not really for long term using. But I can proudly tell you now, that since a few days I noticed Tiger to walk normal, also on carpet and today... today she showed reaction when I touch her toes! I guess my sweet has almost come to full recovery! I am soooo soooo extremely happy about this! You have no idea. My little girl, she healed after keep on believing in miracles. Now for 3 days I haven't seen her walking on a double paw, and from the way of walking I can no longer hear a lot of difference between her and Grey. Of course Grey is heavier, he is much more a sort of a tank moving through the house, but Tiger usually had a slight sound of dragging her injured paw. And, she is once more capable to scratch her head with her right paw again, with good force.

Since this is just a little blog about some happy and very good news, I decided to let you update on more little stories and pictures you may have seen already on FaceBook. I didn't take a lot of pictures lately.I may do so later today.

Grey has discovered that my bed is a very wonderfull place to sleep at night. Now most nights he sleeps besides me, and as long as Tiger is not aware, he wakes up with a very extremely cuddly mood I had never seen in him so far. He comes lay close to me, purring and giving heads, really looking very very happy. But he has to do before 5.30 because that is usually the time Tiger comes to wake me up. Tiger is no longer sleeping with me now for some reason. Usually her ritual starts with removing Grey from my bed. Very very sometimes I will find them sleeping together next to me, but usually it is a bed fight to wake me up. And then comes 'her Annoyance' to tease me, she makes me pet and cuddle her, she demands, there is no chance to get away with ignoring her! Walking up and over me, chirping in my ear, scratching my hand. I have no choice... but to obbey the Queen of the Houses demands.

Also, Grey found out water in the sink is quite cool. Now I have two cats annoying me while I am doing the dishes (no people, I am one of the rare ones not having a dishwashing machine...). I can tell even worse, I had to remove a plate to my closet to prepare food out of reach of the cats. Isn't that a silly world? Really I cannot take anything out without 2 furballs investigating.
Yes I know I could lock them out, but have you ever imagined how fast and dangerous the race back into the kitchen when I open the door again? Really they almost faced death with doing this when there is instable stuff on the table, like pots, pans, books etc.

Last week I had some home make over. I got a new desk, since my old one was giving too much freedom to collect useless stuff, and made me depressed because it was a corner model, making me sit and stare in the corner. I feel more happy now with my new one, overlooking the cats and outside. And, with plenty of space, usually Tiger is sitting beside me. But... I have no place for all my collected useless muck. It is piled up in other places, the floor, the old desk. Which means the cats cannot be free in the livingroom while I am gone. Simply because Tiger is making a mess of all this things. She LOVES cardboard, and when hungry she also eats it (she gets too less food she thinks... but that is not true of course, I just don't want overweighted cats).

Tiger helped me with constructing the desk (and the bookcase 2 weeks ago). Grey misses his hideout on top of this bookcase. I will restore it somehow, my project is by far not finished yet.

And of course she is very tired after a long day of hard working.... (I would not dare to say I took this picture very early in the morning though... ;-) )

And now, after publishing, I will go make muffins. Curious to the input of the cats, I can almost be sure to have new inspiration for a blog after finishing (I have no idea how 'easy' making muffins is with two curious cats around....)