Kray Gelder
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- Georgetown, SC
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I currently have five, two are from my daughter and are old. The one can barely walk due to the diabetes but he seems to really like his life here. (Diabetic Neuropathy.) The other one I got from my daughter is Tiger Lily, and she's just plain fat, but has lost a lot of weight in the last 6 months but is still a butterball.
The other three are Dusty the Jealous, Lil'while the 28 pound Maine Coon and Smoke the one who "owns" me.
Scrambles the Wonder Chicken is the alpha. I don't dare let her in with the cats, she'd hurt them.
Lola Mae tragically was run over and killed by someone when she was only about two years old. We had a pair of cats after her, then for some reason I developed a deathly allergy to them, and we gave them to friends with acreage. Now, when I enter a home with cats, very shortly breathing becomes difficult. Very strange, I don't even have to see a cat to know there's one around. We just have a small rescue dog now, a twenty pounder that believes he is a bad 100 pound guard dog.
I was told that your chemical balance changes approximately every seven years and that's why you become allergic to things that you were never allergic to before. I, too, developed allergies to cats and also poison ivy and tree pollen, the list goes on. Cat dander is supposed to be the numero uno allergen (according to a doctor).
I have a lot of allergies, mainly to man made chemicals and sulfur. The now 15 year old blood tests say I'm allergic to cats. Well, sometimes they sit in my face and there's no problem and I'm not on any antihistamine. If I ever become allergic to cats, I don't think it would be good for my mental health, as I would be then home alone.