C.J.

Our cat CJ is high maintenance, because he is 15 and diabetic, but ,of course, like most pet owners, we feel he is a member of the family.When Adam was seven, he picked the cat out at the Humane Society, and named him CJ for Chipper Jones. Adam says now that his middle initials were why he called the catster CJ , but for whatever reason, that's our cat's name. CJ looks like our previous cat Gata,who we had for 23 years.Gate was an indoor/ outdoor cat and she had an incredibly long life. Adam was about five when she died, and I guess Adam wanted another cat that resembled Gata.We got Adam a cat, but if truth be told, he is more Alfredo's cat than anybody else's.CJ is totally an indoor cat; he doesn't have his front claws, so we couldn't let him out in any case.He has given us a lot of joy, comfort and entertainment, but now he just sleeps, eats, voids and vomits. He vomits almost daily, and I'm waiting until he passes to get new carpet. Cleaning the light carpet after he vomits is a real chore,because of the dye in his food. I mainly have wood floors, but my front room and dining room have carpet and, naturally, that is where he vomits at least half the time.Also, we give him insulin shots twice a day. We moved his litter upstairs from the basement, because he can't manage stairs very well any more. Of course, we do what we need to do for him,because we all love the little fella. That said, Al and I have decided that CJ will be our last pet. We no longer want to do the daily care, and we travel a lot. Pets are wonderful, but they deserve and require so much care the older they get, and we don't need - or want- any more children, so to speak. So we will enjoy our last pet for the time left that we have him.