So, I finally told Cat what's bothering me. She's been very upset about Neko peeing on the floor in front of the door. I knew why she was doing it, but I tried to see if I could get her to stop. Cat's brought it up a lot lately - it's a stresser, but I'd been asking her to let the matter drop. Tonight, I finally told her why I didn't want this ( Read more... )

She had weighed only 3.2 kg when we took her home last time.  When we brought her in this morning, she weighed 2.7 kg ( Read more... )

I've been taking Minou to the vet's a lot lately.  She lost a lot of weight about a year ago, due to a hyper thyroid, and lately she'd been losing weight again.  Last week or so, she seemed to have no energy, and didn't seem to want to move.  I tucked her into bed with me, and she slept there the entire night - not something any of my cats do ( Read more... )

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So, Minou's on her medication.  I thought I'd have to force her to eat it (and even tried), but she spit it up.  Until I just set it down in front of her -- at which point she ate it.  Apparently, these are 'gourmet flavoured' pills, so she likes them.  Makes my job easier.  ;)

My cat Minou has lost a lot of weight lately, and I was a little worried about her over the last week.  Tonight, when I went to clean the poop off the litter room floor, I noticed the place was coated in cat urine.  This set enough alarm bells off that I checked the local vets to see who was open tonight.  The only place was the emergency, and the ( Read more... )

I head off to do something that'll take me maybe a minute or two.  Come back to my chair, and Malkin is curled up on it.  I come around and peer at him -- he's looking at me out of the corner of his eye.  I lean in, and he closes his eyes, pretending to be sleeping.  When I pet him, he looks up and gives a 'mrowl?' sound as if confused at what he's ( Read more... )

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Samantha was given some nice roses, so we put them on top of the printer, above the computer desk, out of the way so the cats can't reach them ( Read more... )