Kate is looking more and more thin and frail. She eats about a third a cat of cat food twice a day, but it's not putting any weight on her. Other than that, she seems happy enough. I need to find a sneaky way to clip her claws, though, because she keeps getting them caught in things and goes into a panic. I worry she'll hurt herself doing that. But she really doesn't like having her claws clipped!

I'm also waiting for Tosca to put on some weight now that she's on the thyroid meds again.

I wish I knew why the slugs like to crawl under my garage door and slime their way through my office. I keep having to pick the blasted things up. Fortunately, the cats don't show any interest in eating them. Bleh.

Randy and I were on the sofa watching TV when we noticed that Saffy and Opal were extremely intent on something at our feet. It was a baby snail. We have loads of snails in the yard, but how a tiny snail got into the house and all the way across the living room is a mystery. Quite a feat for a creature with no feet. We couldn't tell what the moggies had planned for it, so Randy effected a quick rescue and returned it to the yard.

Pippin got snotty about his AllerPet rubdown this morning. He growled and hissed, which is unlike him. This is the first full application of the AllerPet on everybody, so we'll see how Randy's allergies do this week. One thing I like about it already -- it doesn't have a scent.

Randy had a serious allergic reaction to Saffy this morning. I gave her a thorough rub-down with Petastic on Sun., so the Petastic doesn't seem to be doing the job. In the meantime, the bottle of AllerPet arrived, so right after the allergy attack, I gave Saffy a rub-down with that. So far, so good. We'll see if it makes a difference.

I made the mistake of leaving a nail file on my bathroom counter and little Ms. Klepto made off with it. Randy found Saffy with it under the bed. She loves to carry things off --strings, clips, pens, nail files....

As I mentioned before, it's pretty obvious that Tosca has become severely hyperthyroid again. She eats desperately, is losing weight, is way more active than usual and is atypically aggressive toward Kate. She visited the vet's on Thurs. for follow-up blood tests. I had both the thyroid and FIP titres redone.

When the vet called me on Fri., he confirmed my suspicions. Yes, the thyroid levels were through the roof again. I had a hunch that the FIP titres would be lower and I was right. They were back down to 1:1600, which is still horrendously bad but lower than the 1:3200 when she was on thyroid meds. He feels she's euthyroid, meaning that she's has a malfunctioning thyroid due to some other condition, and my best guess is the coronavirus, whatever it is. He wants her on the thyroid meds before she wastes away, but she may very well end up overcompensating again and end up with thyroid levels that are way too low. He said he'd rather have them too low than have them too high.

It's all quite strange and baffling (even somewhat to the vet), but the best I can do now is try to get the thryoid problem balanced and see what happens with the mystery virus. She could very well develop full-blown FIP, but for now she's sassy and happy and seems healthy enough.

Meanwhile, Sassy mortally wounded me. We were playing with Mr. Scraps, who is still her favorite toy in the universe, and I stuck my hand into the wrong place at the wrong time. Instant Sliced and Diced Finger! Yowtch!

Today was bath day for the house cats. They get a major rub-down with a wet sock today, then a touch-up on Wed. This is the only way Randy can survive having cats around him. But lately he's been having serious problems with allergic reactions to the cats. I've used a product for years called Nature's Miracle that would remove the allergen when the cat was rubbed down with it. Randy complained that the Nature's Miracle no longer seemed to be working.

When I went to the pet store to buy more, I mentioned this. The woman who was helping me told me that the partners in the company split up. One partner got the name and the other partner got the formula. The second partner has released the product under a new name, Petastic. This might explain why the old product no longer seemed to be working.

So I bought the Petastic and we've been trying it for several weeks. Randy continues to have problems. It looks like this alternate product isn't doing the trick either.

I guess we'll have to find something else and quickly. There's one called Allerpet that we can only get by ordering on-line. That's next for a try-out.

Pippin can get irritable during his rub-down, but today he was downright pissy about it. He even tried to bite me! That's not like him at all. Unfortunately, the bath must go on.

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