Mr. Boots is home!

Mr. Boots was finally allowed to come home Fri­day!? We are still try­ing to get a good han­dle on his med­ical issues, par­tic­u­larly the cause of the ane­mia, but as Dr. Ray put it, “Mr. Boots needs to get on with his life.” So every­one cleared him to get out of that double-​wide cage and into his For­ever Home.

He does def­i­nitely have poly­cys­tic kid­ney dis­ease, but right now it’s not affect­ing him at all.? Sooner or later he will go into renal fail­ure, but that’s pretty com­mon in elderly cats any­way.? Dr. Ray has him on a trial of Epogen for the ane­mia, so I’ve had to learn how to give him an every-​other-​day injec­tion.?? He’ll go back to the vet at the end of next week and we’ll see if it’s doing any good.

As for adjust­ing to his lat­est move, well, he just made him­self quite at home.? He had a “safe room” to him­self Fri­day after­noon, but by the time I got back from run­ning my errands he was eager to come out and begin explor­ing the rest of the house and meet Dono­van and the Sarah­Cat.? They, OTOH, were NOT quite so eager to meet him ::rolling eyes::.? But they are adjust­ing as well.? He is turn­ing out to be a “prox­i­mate cat” and wants to be either near us or near the other cats (but not TOO near them yet).? He fol­lows me around the house; he sleeps on the bed with us; he sits on the sofa and watches TV with us; he snoozes in the office while we work.

He purrs a lot.? I think he’s happy .