Mischief
Mischief was the first of our cats. He was born in Summer 1999 and came from Devon. He is slightly overweight (Against my Daughters liking!) and is VERY lazy. He eats, sleeps, eats some more and sleeps even more. Occsaionally he will venture out to the garden to the toilet! He does have a morning walk to the aviary to check all the birds are OK with Stacey (Only in fine weather though, not in the wet weather we are prone to!) and then back to sleeping again!!! He is a little shy of strangers and will frequently hide under any duvet possible! He is a heat magnet and loves to sleep in front of the fire! Despite his weight, he is in fine medical health apart from a flea allergy!
Mischief passes away
In December 2013 we took the hard decision to have Mischief put to sleep. In 2012 he was diagnosed with Diabetes which just wouldn't stabilise like any 'normal' cat diebetic and after further investigations, we started testing for the 'rarer' conditions. This developed into diagnosing him with a pituitary tumour which caused the diabetes. It was always a difficult one to control with blood glucose every mealtime and having to give insulin levels to tally in with it just like I do every mealtime, except his diet played a role as he was only using insulin every 12 hours. This condition then developed with him having heart failure. He had his chest drained of fluids a few times and we had specialist scans and we started him on medication. Sadly this wasn't controlling it. We knew he was ill with a tumour on his brain and diabetes. We just knew the time was right, he looked at us all in a special way asking for our help so we, very sadly, said our goodbyes. He is sadly missed.