Jimmy is having a breakthrough!!

Eileen........you won't believe this...........



Jimmy is on the cat food table and he was eating. Now he is in the LV room floor just hanging out.....

And I am laughing my buttocks off........ I rattled the ice in my glass and he just sits there. I sure want a cigarette but I guess JImmy is helping me quit. They are in the living room too. And my crocket stuff for the baby.

Darn......

ok, I got my cigarettes and made a celebration margarita!!

I let the dogs in and JImmy ran back to the living room closet. I honestly believe that since he is NOT running to the bedroom, he is changing rooms. I put the dogs in the laundry area and shut the gate. Jimmy has went to the washing machine with the dogs in the house before. Walks right past them. But that was after he had laid in that window and stared and atared at them for a while.

But anyway...JIMMY IS NOW A LIVING ROOM KITTY.

AND THAT IS GREAT!!!

FROM A SMOKING GRANNY.........WITH A CELEBRATION DRINK..

I am going to sit on the couch and crochet and see if he comes out. He is in the edge of the door.

Jenn.......

p.s. Need a good satire satai.........

Originally Posted by jcribbs

OK, Jimmy is sitting in the living room watching me. He is not in the closet.

He's a big boy now. HE IS OUT OF THE CLOSET... The girls woke him up and they are INSIDE the cat food bag..... He is watching it russle.. This is a 20lb bag. hehehe

I love kittens.....

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Me too - I've got to say, I love these updates too.

Good luck with Jimmy, JJ, co, and grandbaby!

I'm glad yall are enjoying hem. I am too. I have been waiting on something to update as far as jImmy. At first he wasn't interested in giving updates on him.

Now he feel bold and beautiful..............hehe

Good for Jimmy! And congratulations, Jenn!

I got Jimmy's closet ready. He had echrich sausage with his cat food this morning sitting beside my husbands cowboy boot in the closet in the bedroom. While he was in there eating, I fixed his living room closet. I decided NOT to put his crate in there. Instead I made him a pallet and put a cat condo in there. He has not been in there yet but when he goes in there I'll get a picture. I will be in and out today online. Zachary is being born shortly so I am fixing to get ready to go to the hospital when she goes in labor. I am so excited.......

Also, eileen, I have frontline coming in mail. Any suggestions as to how to get it on Jimmy???? How did yall do it? I have enough for everyone but he is the only one I will have trouble with... It would be easy to get him in his crate and let the vet do it!! hmm, maybe.... but I hate to do that if there is another way that is not too stressful on Jimmy. I don't want a setback but I also feel if I do it, and then release him it will be less stressful on him than taking him to the vet and having the vet do it. The first time I doctored Star for anything it set her back, but the second and third time there was no setback. She knew with time I was not hurting her and so while she doesn't like me doing stuff to her, she lets me. I have to hold her scruff however to keep her still. She doesn't scratch me. She lays and closes her eyes and when I release her, she darts back to the couch and looks at me in disgust......"why mama"........hehe But it doesn't set her back now. I held her yesterday by the way on my shoulder. She turns her face from me but she lays it on my shoulder too. She likes it.

And if Jimmy takes over all the closets I am not sure where to put the human stuff....
He has three closets right now but only two have beds in them.. But of course, this might be a good excuse to clean hubby's out. But Jimmy not like it then. He likes being behind the cowboy boots. He peeks between them. I can't wait to really spoil him one day. Today I sat in my husbands closet about 3' from him talking to him. I was in the restoom earlier with the door open and there goes Jimmy......walking down the hall. So I have looked and I can't find him. Not sure where he is at the moment.. But his new room is ready.

His new room has really good carpet in it. It is very soft and cushy. I covered it with a sarape and and put an old sheet in the corner and if wants to hide, he can get in his condo. He is going to be a condo man......hopefully.

He is behind the stove. I gave him some more sausage and i'm just leaving him alone. Instead of a living room kitty, he might end up being a kitchen kitty like Toe.....hehe

Now he is sitting in the restroom. He is exploring everything now....

cooooool..............

OH my god. I thought he was out of the restroom and I opened the shower to get in and he jumped out........hehehehehe

He was sitting in the bathrub behind the curtain. I love it......

Aw, he is making such progress What a sweety!

He is so beautiful and he is taking over the dog crate. He is finding all kinds of spots that he is claiming.........Glad he doesn't mind picture taking.

OMG, Jenn, I absolutely love that closeup of Jimmy. That's the best picture of him I've every see! What a gorgeous boy!

Regarding the flea medication, the first time Millie applied it, she had to net him to do it. She didn't apply it again until right before you adopted him and she wore gloves to do it with him in an open top cat carrier. He'll probably be temporarily traumatized, but your best bet might be to have the vet do it. Jimmy did very well at our vet with the tech holding him down very gently in the carrier as the vet examined him. Wish I had more advice. Good luck!

I have about a week till it arrives probably, so I will use that time to plan my "strategy"......... I promise I will let you know how it goes. And yeah, that closeup of Jimmy is GREAT!! He is georgeous. He looks like a calendar cat!

And look at my new grandbaby. He was born about 6:30 tonight. I took 57 picture of him..... We are so proud... His name is Zachary Bryan.

Your new grandson is absolutely adorable. What a little sweetie. Congratulations!

I'll ask Millie to see if she has any tips regarding Jimmy. She's going to love that picture of him.

Thanks Ellie....... I am going to see little Zach this afternoon. Thanks for the compliment. Going to be one spoiled babe... He is the spitting image of my son when he was born....

As far as Jimmy, I'll check back in this afternoon as well to see what Millie thinks.. Hope MIllie has some great advice without me going to the vet. I have never netted a cat and don't know if I could. Don't have a net for one thing. Might just have to get some big gloves and bite the bullet.

The crate that he came to us in? It would be easy to get him in that. Thatis his den. I know it's not open topped but with gloves [elbow length long gloves] I might could do it...

Going to a job interview and then back to sheetrocking........

See ya, Jenn

Hey Jenn, here's what I got from Millie: She recommends trying another anti-flea medication that can be put in Jimmy's food. She thinks it's called Program and said to ask your vet if it's available. If so, you need to entice Jimmy with wet food he really likes - stir this in it. It should be good for 30 days.

Also, she said in her experience, if nearly all the animals have the anti-flea meds on them, having one indoor animal without it may not be a problem. The fleas are usually wiped out via all the other treated animals. (She
actually did this one summer in regard to her own - can't touch all of them
so I treated all but one or two. The flea problem disappeared).

I'LL CHECK ON THE OTHER MEDS. JIMMY LOVES WET FOOD SO THAT SHOULD BE EASY TO GET HIM TO EAT THAT..

and all the other critters will be frontlined. So I might try that too.

We'll see what happens. I haven't noticed him scratching. And the fleas seem to finally seem to be disappearing. I have salt and DE in the carpet which I have left for a week. Can't wait to vacuum..

I don't know what happened. They just took over all at once. Table salt is a cheap solution for fleas in carpet. It dries them up and they DIE... You have to leave it on the carpet for a week. Or I do. Gets eggs and everything. Works as good as a bomb but just takes a couple days. And definately works better the the DE I bought. I tried that first and it did not work. Total waste of money. But the salt is working. And I hate using bombs indoors where I have to breath and right now, there is no way I could bomb with Jimmy and the kittens and JJ in here. It would be impossible. But the salt has worked. I used it once years ago and it worked. But this is the first time I have had indoor fleas since then. And that was 20 years ago or so.

I found some Program that I can use for Jimmy. I'll get him some. That is very non tramatic. They have a liquid formula that I can just put in his food. On ebay they have a 6 month supply for 30.00 or so for cats 7-15 lbs. And I suspect he weight 12-14 lbs. He is a big guy......

That is the answer. No trauma, no stress, no scratches and no setbacks. It also said on one site that this is used a lot to treat the ferals just for those reasons. Thank you for that. I have never heard of it before.

I couldn't use Program with Star because she resists eating or drinking anything different. She only like hard cat food. She is very paticular with her food FOR A FERAL and doesn't even like me changing brands of hard cat food to try something new. She has tasted wet food but she always suspects I am putting something in it so she won't eat it. hehe...... She knows. So I am frontlining her.

Jenn - I'm just reading this thread. For various personal and work reasons, I haven't been able to visit TCS very often for the past few years. But hubby and I are working a regular job again (*phew*!), and I'm slowly catching up, and not just popping by to give advice.

First - Congratulations on the new grandson!!!! I don't know how many grandkids you have, but it's till got to be so exciting!

And next I have to say - JIMMY IS SO INCREDIBLY CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for posting those pics of him - especially with your other kitties!

He looks very much like a "winter version" of our Tuxedo - that same black wrap around the front left leg! But once we brought Tuxie inside, he lost the extra weight and fur that made him look so bulked up. But the resemblence is really quite amazing.

And you are doing SUCH a wonderful job with him! Apparently you've got experience with this (with Star?) - but it doesn't lessen the amazement at every little step of progress along the way, does it?

He sounds like he's coming out of his shell at a really rapid rate - and it's such a wonderful thing to witness! You are obviously a very special person, and your kitties are lucky indeed.

Keep the updates coming!