Coco is a slightly shy 13 year old Burmese girl. She’s beautiful in nature and unlikely to be a nuisance or give you any trouble. She is starting to get old, and we suspect she might have the cat equivalent of Parkinson’s starting. She’s a bit slow.
Coco sleeps quite a lot. She’s happy in most warm places but particularly keen on your lap in front of the TV or once she’s comfortable with you, will get in under the bed covers at night with you.
Failing that, she will cuddle up to Rory and sleep on anything warm.
Coco is a fussy eater and takes her time. She doesn’t have a sense of urgency at all, so we have to separate the two at breakfast and dinner otherwise Rory will eat everything.
If you give Coco tinned cat food, she’ll tend to lick the gravy off the meat and leave the rest so we only give her tinned food when we run out of fresh meat. She doesn’t have many teeth left so biscuits aren’t really her thing, but often she’ll have a few.
She also has medication with her meal – more of that below.
Rory would graze all day if he could, although he’s a slightly fussy eater. He tends to munch his breakfast and dinner with gusto and then goes to check out how Coco is doing. He’ll push her off her bowl and finish it off for her if left unchecked.
Medication
Coco has ¼ of a capsule of Gabapentin with breakfast and dinner which we just mix in. We also add a sprinkle of Psyllium (to keep her ‘regular’). We just put a few drops of warm water into her food and mix it all up.
We’ve left some Gabapentin and Psyllium by the kitchen window (beside the door)