As it is the 1st of January we will review our 8 month with Tigani:
The 27th of April 2010 was our fist day with Tigani. Since then a lot of things happened: funny, good, entertaining, but also sad things.
The first three month with Tigani were turbulent and partially exhausting. It was nearly impossible to calm this little, furry guy and he was literally climbing our walls. Even though some of our inventory was damaged (couch, curtains, chairs, …) we were unable to be angry with Tigani because we love our little, furry monster. And believe it or not, he is also able to be kind and well-behaved (only if he is in the mood 
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In the beginning of August, Tigani started to behave strange: he was calm, slept a lot and ate nearly nothing (before he ate 300 grams a day). Therefore, we went to the vet, bu they did not find something suspicious only that he was teething. The vets assumption was that Tigani stopped eating because of his teething. We were pacified and went home, unfortunately Tigani’s condition became worse. He continued with his hunger strike, was flabby and not his former self. We were desperate and went several times to the vet for blood testing, ultrasound, and X-ray. The tests showed that Tiganis blood work did not look good with regard to his kidneys. His blood work was unbelievable for such a young cat. From that on we regularly went to the vet for two weeks for subcutaneous fluids to improve his blood count. Fortunately his values improved, but a new problem showed: Tigani’s calcium level increased drastically. His medical case became so complex that our vet sent us to the veterinary university clinic of Vienna.
We are still visiting the department for internal medicine at the university clinic, however Tigani’s blood work improved essentially. Finally, we found that among other things Tigani was suffering from vitamin D poisoning. His calcium and renal values are still elevated, but still lower than in summer 2010. Unfortunately, Tigani’s blood work points with high probability at chronic renal failure 
The triggers are unknown, but could be found by a biopsy of his kidneys. We are not doing the biopsy because it can be a dangerous procedure and it will not help Tigani.
In spite of Tigani’s chronic disease he is doing great. He is active and rascally like before and started to eat normally again. At the moment he weighs 4,7 kilos. Tigani is a very clever cat. He learns new tricks very fast, walks on a leash, reacts on his name and is especially creative when it comes to wicked things e.g. to reach unbelievable places (refrigerator). Besides his cleverness he is self-confident, flexible and brave. Driving with cars, foreign locations, dogs and so on are no problem. One of Tigani’s hobbies is playing Tarzan – he loves to climb trees (look at the pictures).
It is difficult to tell you everything about 2011, but they say a picuture says a thousand words … (none of the pictures are faked, Tigani likes to show himself in really funny positions)
And last but not least a video taken in summer in our fruit orchard.
