belated friday cat blogging: lucy goes on a diet edition
Lucy saw her new vet for the first time today. I wanted to get her set up with a vet in the town we're actually living in, in case anything should ever go wrong where she'd need to see a vet, and also get some advice on how to control her weight. You see, Lucy is fat. She weighed in at 12.4 pounds on the vet's scale, which was less than I'd come up with doing the whole "weigh me, then weigh me holding her and subtract" thing. But still, she's clearly overweight. The new vet says her ideal weight would probably be around 9 pounds.
In case you didn't know, Lucy has a...personality. In that she often wants to kill everyone ever. I was expecting flying fur and blood everywhere, but she actually behaved herself very well. She moaned and groaned the whole time, of course, but the only person she actually tried to bite was me, and she wasn't really trying to hurt me.
Anyway, cutting because I'm going to put up pictures
This is Lucy last month, wanting to know why I would possibly dare to take her picture:
The new vet is very hippy-dippy and weird, but nice. So I got a long explanation about how Purina is made of corn, and corn is TEH EVOL. Then there was some stuff about holistic remedies and detox and similar. I'm surprised he didn't manage to work free radicals in there somehow. But the upshot is that Lucy will be limited to one can of Fancy Feast per day, half in the morning and half in the evening, and must exercise from 10-20 minutes per day. And he wants her to come in once a month (yay) to be weighed, for free.
Finally, she got to come home, and after she forgave me and came out from under the bed, she enjoyed her post-vet catnip treat:
In case you didn't know, Lucy has a...personality. In that she often wants to kill everyone ever. I was expecting flying fur and blood everywhere, but she actually behaved herself very well. She moaned and groaned the whole time, of course, but the only person she actually tried to bite was me, and she wasn't really trying to hurt me.
Anyway, cutting because I'm going to put up pictures
This is Lucy last month, wanting to know why I would possibly dare to take her picture:
The new vet is very hippy-dippy and weird, but nice. So I got a long explanation about how Purina is made of corn, and corn is TEH EVOL. Then there was some stuff about holistic remedies and detox and similar. I'm surprised he didn't manage to work free radicals in there somehow. But the upshot is that Lucy will be limited to one can of Fancy Feast per day, half in the morning and half in the evening, and must exercise from 10-20 minutes per day. And he wants her to come in once a month (yay) to be weighed, for free.
Finally, she got to come home, and after she forgave me and came out from under the bed, she enjoyed her post-vet catnip treat: