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    Toni Noel posted an update 5 years, 4 months ago

    @keshawalker Hi Kesha. Please tell us about your Mora. I am sorry you had to part and hope you are doing okay?

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      Kesha replied 5 years, 4 months ago
      Her name is actually Kimora. Don’t know why it’s saying Mora. She was originally my sister’s cat and was a Christmas gift to my sister from an old boyfriend she reconnected with. I first met her on Christmas of 2007. My sister’s apartment ended up flooding the summer of 2008 so my sister asked me to take Kimora in while she got situated in new apartment. Due to lack of time to care for her, my sister was going to return her back to the shelter and that made me sad because I had grown attached to her. My sister then came to see me and decided to let me keep her. We were together ever since and she went with me each time I moved. Sometime after we moved out of the apartment we shared with my sister, my sister had adopted a second cat. ( she adopted a cat for my niece while I still lived with them, then later adopted a second one) last year my sister had her second daughter and started fearing for her safety based on second cat’s behavior towards her, so she decided to…

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          Toni Noel replied 5 years, 4 months ago
          No, I’m sure you are not doing okay right now, Kesha, and understand. It sounds as if Kimora was failing in many ways for some time, and I truly know how that hurts us so much. My 17 year old cat is being treated for progressive inflammatory disease, kidney decline, high blood pressure, hyper-thyroidism…the list goes on. She seem to be feeling okay and not in pain, but this past year I thought we were going to say goodbye twice. It was devastating. I know how sad it is to watch them age and fail and I hope YOU know you did what was best for Kimora, always. I am glad you have Rokko for company and to share your love. Please, please, let us know how you are coming along, and what Rokko is up to. I’m sending you both a HUG.
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              Kesha replied 5 years, 4 months ago
              In the beginning of Kimora’s absence Rokko started acting stressed out in response to my emotions and even ended up with a UTI. I rushed him to the Vet on the night of the UTI and was sent home with some medicine for him. He got better after medicine and I ended up having to switch him to a prescription food for urinary. He’s been fine since and still acts like his cuddly/ mischievous self. If he’s napping during the day he sometimes lays on my bed till he decides to get on my lap. He also sleeps right by me at night. I’m trying to transition him to Breeze litter system I used for Kimora so that he won’t make as much of a mess when he uses the box, I won’t have to scoop as much, the litter won’t get tracked all over my apartment and I won’t have to buy or change his litter as much. He pooped in the breeze box, but hasn’t peed in it yet. I first tried placing his waste from first box on top of the pellets to get him to realize that’s where to go, but he ignored it for awhile. Then he pooped in it, but hasn’t peed in it yet. I ended up having to buy a box of the litter we had been using before he got another UTI or had an accident from stress with new box. I then mixed in the Breeze Pellets like I should’ve in the first place. He still goes up to the Breeze box, smells it, and tries to cover the scent on it. I’m hoping that once it’s time to change his box again and I switch the pellets back to the Breeze Box that he’ll start using it.🤞
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                  Toni Noel replied 5 years, 4 months ago
                  It seems Purina owns Breeze Box and they may have useful tips on their website: https://www.purina.com/tidy-cats/cat-litter-boxes/breeze-systems. Maybe he isn’t using the box because of the UTI? Interesting information. Keep us posted and let us know what you find out.
                  How old is Rokko, Kesha?
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                      Kesha replied 5 years, 4 months ago
                      Rokko is 4 years old. That’s what Vet said on invoice. I did reach out to Tidy Cats about transitioning him. He no longer has UTI, that was three months ago. He did poop in it once after I set it up as I mentioned earlier. He’ll go up to it and smell it, and act like he’s trying to cover his scent that was left after everything stayed in the Breeze Box when I tried adding his waste. After finally getting a box of Arm&Hammer that he’s been using since my sister dropped him off to me last year, I filled up his box he normally uses and then dumped the Breeze pellets from the Breeze box into the Arm&Hammer litter. When I poured out the last of his Arm&Hammer before getting new box, there was some of his urine on the bottom, so I poured it out into the Breeze Box to pass through the drain onto the pad.