Current situation:
And how are the two cats getting along now?
Oyā¦ Donāt ask.
My FIL passed away last Sat 
so my MIL has been down here and he was living in her house (upstairs) while they were gone. We didnāt want to bother her with this stupid idiot at a time like this so we moved him down with us. He spends his nights in the basement bathroom (same thing we did with other cats we have gotten when we had other cats).
Heās out a lot with Kara and she does not like him. A lot of hissing and growling from her but no attacks. He just wants to be friends and she wants no part of thatā¦
Iām sure they will sort it out but itās still pretty stressful. My MIL is returning to her summer home tomorrow and we might just move him back up there just to have some peace for a bit.
Iām so sorry for your Father In Law, ASV_Vites 
He was able to spend his last months peacefully at home with his family, I believe.
Yes, it was a minor miracle. On Feb 1st, when he was released from the hospital after they screwed up and caused massive internal bleeding with unneeded medication, the doctors gave him 5-10 days to live and sent him home under hospice care to say goodbye to his family.
The hospital administrator apologized for their mistake which Iāve never even heard of.
He had a minor heart attack on Jan 23rd which wasnāt uncommon for him. The last few times, my MIL decided not to take him to the ER and he bounced right back in a 24 hours. Because we were back in the city this time, we decided to have him checked out.
They thought they found a minor blood clot in his ankle and started him on IV blood thinners. On Friday, 1-27 I went to visit him and he was standing up with PT who was getting him ready to go home. That night, they started him on Eliquis and he started bleeding out and had to stay for a few more days getting blood transfusions. That laid him up for a total of 10 days (Jan 27th - Feb 1st), and when you are 96 years old and lay in bed that long, you donāt get back up and thatās what happened.
He never got out of bed but he did thrive under home care, primarily (90%) of that being done by my 82 year old mother in law. He was happy, pain free, and mentally perfect at 96, still trading his stocks from his home hospital bed.
On June 30th, the home hospice aide came to their upstate summer home to clean him up and stressed him too much with a ton of activity because they have very limited time up where they are. In the city, my MIL had 36 hours a week of help. Up there, she had 3 hours. He had a heart attack after the aide left and never bounced back.
The whole thing sucked and doctors really need to stop treating everyone the same. 96 year oldās are not 65 year oldās.
If we never called that ambulance on Jan 23rd, heād still be alive and mobile today and that I am quite sure of. If he turned 5-10 days into nearly 7 months, he would have been fine from what happened on Jan 23rd.
Sorry for this post. Iām still pissed and very upset about all of this. The good news is any suffering he was dealing with is over and heās at peace. We had 2 wonderful celebrations of his life and he had a send off by Navy soldiers at the cemetery which he would have loved and was quite moving.
He is absolutely adorable! 
So true. I am sorry your familyās final days with him were clouded by poor medical decisions. You were lucky to have him and it seems he was also lucky to have you.
If he doesnāt work out at your house, I will take him 
My guy is going for a follow up in 2 hoursā¦ Heās doing great.
Just got back. Got his booster / Rabies shots. Nail clip, eye all good. Minor corneal scaring continues to fade. Sheās 95% confident that it will completely go away in time. Regardless, it works and he can see out of it. In low light his vision in that eye might be a little obstructed. Depends on pupil dilation / position of the scaring.
Heās 6lbs 6ozs which is heavy for his age. Vet thinks heās going to be a big boy. No sign of any adult teeth yet so he may be a little younger than we thought he was.
No more vet for 2-3 months when he gets his nuts snippedā¦
The longer we wait, the more muscle he will develop and the more filled out his head will get so we may push this as long as possible or until he starts sprayingā¦
I always wondered why the size of male cats heads vary so much. Didnāt know that it depends on when or if they are fixed. Learn something new every day.
I like learning new things! (well, not always ā but useless new things ā oh yeah!)
Never heard that before.
Yea, she was telling me that she had a 10 year old male in this week that was never fixed and his head was huge and he had really developed scent glands in his cheeks that made him look ridiculous. She also said he smelled really bad. LOL
She knew about the big head thing from her training, not just this one recent smelly example.
I am pleased that your SILās training regimen has contributed so mightily to Ollieās well-being.
I am less-pleased that Humankindās profligate nature in husbanding Natural Order has led us to the point of blithely considering the neutering of it, in the manner of āSee? I fixed itā to which such worthies are bound by various device, to be an eternally-acceptable state of affairsā¦
@ASV_Vites I believe you. I agree with you.
Hereās visual proof. Here is my newest cat Buzzy, before and after. The first photo was taken back in December when he was just starting to hang around. He wasnāt neutered yet. Look at those chubby cheeks.
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The next photo was taken a few minutes ago, one month after his neuter. Notice the difference. (I had a hard time getting him to sit still. This is the only good photo. I had to trash can six others).
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Thatās one cool looking kitty!
Yes, he has turned out to be a real lovebug. He follows me around a lot wanting to be near me. Heās not clingy, just wants to know that Iām near.
Iāve given him a nickname due to his tendency to run around the house at Indy 500 speed, his paws creating a pounding sound: Thunderpaws. So his full name is Buzzy Thunderpaws. Sounds like a WWE wrestler. 
This is interesting. Did he smell because of the scent glands? My formerly feral guy was estimated to be about 3 yrs old at his first vet visit, which did include neutering (he was spraying - down the hvac floor registers !!). I will have to find some before photos to compare head size. He does sometimes have foul smelling drool; I wonder now, could it be related to scent glands.
Whozzit and I have an ongoing argument about āferalā. If a cat was born to a feral mother, but he now eats at our house and sometimes even sleeps on the bed with us ā is the cat still considered feral?
Regardless, here is a pic of my feral-ish boy.
Remember the picture I posted a little while back, of the gigundo cactus in my front yard? My cat decided the cactus was a good place to nap yesterday. Heās ~4ā up, nestled in-between cactus pads. Yes, everything has stickers.
Thatās what the vet said it was from. Not sure if they continue to smell once fixed bc they were allowed to fully develop. Shouldnāt be the drool though.