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My Cats

Tomcat Sammy

Got Sammy December 2007. I don´t know his real age, the vet says he must be something around 13 or 14 years old. The family I got him from left him behind as they moved. The female neighbor called me up if I could take him. She took care for him but her own cats didn´t like and accept Sammy and she asked me to find a new home for him. But of course, nobody wanted a that old cat who never met a vet before. I took him and kept him. In October 2008 he got very ill, started to be diabetes and I wasn´t far away from freaking out! My vet was overstained and told me wrong things. I was afraid of the life of my poor old tomcat and searched the net. Found a pretty good site for diabetes cats and got some very important information. I searched for a better vet and drove into the animal hospital I was with my beloved cat Mausi before. There Sammy was treated right and I learned to measure his blood sugar level and how to give him his injection twice a day. It was very difficult because of my shift-work and to that time, we had that much work, I almost worked each weekend, too. But we made it. Around Christmas 2008 suddenly the blood sugar leven sank very deep. I called up the animal hospital and they told me with cats diabetes could go away again and that really was what happened. Soon after Christmas Sammy went in the so called "Honeymoon" and never had problems with the blood sugar level again till yet. We still keep our fingers crossed.

Sammy had a hard life before he came to me, the family didn´t reat him well the same with their own kids, but nobody cared. I couldn´t help the kids but I was able to help Sammy. Now he lives with me and toomcat Moritz at my little flat and enjoys a day on the balcony in the warm sun, eating some meat and sleeping in my bed.

Some more pictures of Sammy.