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Last Updated: 3/29/08
There is a video of Dude on my video page!
Dude under the Christmas tree on 1/1/07.
Doodally on 2/19/05.
Doodally in April of 2003, very sleepy!
Polky on 8/20/97.
Polky is better known as Dude, Doodally, Poopene, or Poopette. Doodally is all white with three gray dots on her head (thus Polky from polka dot) with medium-length, soft hair. She was born around 9/2/96. I picked her from her brothers at a local vet clinic on 10/11/96 when still too young. The first time I saw her, the week before, at only five weeks old, she sat in a pie pan full of litter with her eyes a quarter open and a piece of clay litter on her head. I feel in love instantly. I thought I could replace some of the love Bootsy gave me but this cat is totally unlike her. She only purrs and cuddles occasionally (like when I am too ill to respond). She bites, claws, runs, jumps, and generally acts like a crazy beast most of the time. As a kitten, Dude loved to have fights with little stuffed animals and hauled them all over the house. She also takes the bath drain and sink plugs out and loves to play with running water. She tore up and ate wall paper, curtains, and rugs until she was three years old. Although she is destructive, she is cute while she does it! As of July 1998, she began coming to me purring while I was on my bed but as soon as I touched her, she was off galloping around the house to eat more curtains. She ate at least 100 square feet of curtains before we got new ones (without wool in them). Needless to say, she had enough fibre in her diet! Dude only eats dry cat food. We got new curtains in the fall of 1999 which she has not bothered since they were not to her liking I guess! She did like eating the plastic table cloth cover though so we put up one of those motion sensors that squeals when she got on the table. It seemed to work but we let it lapse after the batteries kept dying.
Dude had her yearly checkup on 3/23/00. She was 8.2 pounds. As she gets older, Doodally has become more affectionate as long as Gino is not around. He attacks her every chance he gets. When she tries to be affectionate with me, he thwarts her by leaping on top of her.
Her checkup was again without incidence in 2001, 2002, and 3/27/03. As of 2/14/04, I can say that Doodally does like cuddle sessions now but only if she is tired. She is much less active now but can still bounce around the house with Gino is pursuit at times.
Dude had her yearly checkup on 3/16/04. There is nothing to report except she is 8.6 pounds. She was 9.7 pounds on 3/27/03 so I cannot imagine she lost that much. Dude is sometimes grumpy and sometimes sweet.
I had Doodally microchipped on 3/13/05 at a clinic.
On 3/15/05, Doodally had her yearly checkup. She put up a nice fight. She was up to 9.0 pounds. She got her exam and distemper shot. I also had a baseline body function blood test done since she is almost 9-years-old. It showed a dozen values that were border line or slightly over (the vet did not say what). He did say that the creatinine was 2.5 (normal is up to 2.4). I hope she is not going to have kidney failure soon too! For now, she is okay.
On 3/17/06, Dude had her yearly checkup. I have decided not to have yearly distemper shots anymore. There is too much literature now showing they do more harm than good. For some of my cats, I may still have them done every three years. Dude gets a high fever after every shot so I will only get her the rabies shots from now on. So, this day, she just had an exam. The vet could not find a thing wrong with her. She was down to 8.5 pounds but she does fluctuate a bit, or the vet scale is no good!
Since Gino is on special food now, the only dry out during the day is his food. Dude only ate dry her whole life although the canned food was always available. At night, I lock her up separate with her regular natural dry food. On 3/25/06, for the first time ever, I saw her tentatively eating some canned food. I guess she was desperate. It would be better for her. She has always had issues where she wanted to consume too much fiber, starting with when she was a baby and literally ate the wool curtains until we got new curtains. In a short time, Dude came to be eating Gino's vet diet (as do the other cats) but I wish she (and they) would not!
On 3/21/07, Dude had her yearly checkup. I thought she was heavier but the vet said she was 9.7 pounds down from 10.9 on 11/1/06 when she got a rabies shot (I guess I forgot to add that on this page!). Doodally has a lot of fat rolls under her belly. Dude has a Grade 2 heart murmur. The vet said it was noted before but I did not note it here (I try to write everything down here for a record). They worked on Dude in the back as she put up a fight. I assume she was properly examined but do not know. I had a geriatric blood panel run, and everything was fine. Her cholesterol was a little high and her platelets a little low (but they were clumped). Her T4 was normal. So, she seems fine.
Doodally had her yearly check up on 3/24/08. She was down to 9.2 pounds. They found nothing wrong and did not mention the heart murmur (I forgot to ask). Her blood test results were similar to last year with only a slightly high cholesterol and the rest normal.
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