Diddles

This is Diddles, my little dork that terrorizes the birds, mice, or anything else not smart enough to move when he's anywhere near by. Although, from the picture of him playing dead, one might wonder how he catches up with anything. He's absolutely adorable in everything he does. And when he comes in to tell me his daily "adventures," I listen intently. In the above photo and ones to the left, you can see Diddles still has both eyes. In the lower picture you see him after I had to have his right eye surgically removed: a neighbor cat attacted him and cut the cornea, horizontally across his eyeball.

~Back to the Front~

On October 5, 2007, at 1:00 AM, PDT, my precious Diddles passed away due to complications from diabetes. He had been suffering from and was being treated for a condition called "Diabetic Ketoacidosis" or "DKA" for short. He was doing better when I brought him home at noon on October 4th but, twelve hours later, he became dehydrated again and then went into diabetic shock and suffered a series of seizures, and then a stroke. By the time I got him to the emergency vet, there was only a faint heartbeat. Five minutes later, he passed away.
I will miss him more than words can say. He was much too young to go, and too good a cat to have gone the way he did. All I can say is, if you've got a diabetic pet, watch them closely for any changes: sutble or obvious. The quicker you get help for them, the better chance they will have for survival. At Diddles' expense, I learned a VERY hard lesson...one I will never forget, nor forgive myself for.