Paula, thank you for the kind post!

Rommel was a thug, but he was a sweet thug, and as you say we were his people. For all of his “bad” reputation, he would curl up (or around) our other cats and snooze with them happily. And he let our little kitten, Iris, steal the food right out of his bowl.

I’m sorry to hear about your cat, Cinder. 20 years! That’s a nice age. How you and Cinder deal with diabetes is going to be a personal question just for the two of you to figure out. I will say this, though- Rommel didn’t mind the shots at all. As for blood sugar monitoring…our vet did the blood checks. In retrospect I wonder if, had we been doing more regular checks, Rommel might have done better.

Best of luck figuring out how to work out the diabetes question.