Tales of the Moggy Horde or How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love Bast

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Yesterday, I picked up cans of the duck and green peas canned food that the vet wants us to try Pippin on. We're supposed to introduce it in his special diet canned food gradually over a couple of weeks. The Pippymeister is doing well and feeling spunky, probably thanks to the antibiotics he's been getting. We had other good news as well. His blood work-up came back normal. Last time we took him to the vet it was for tremors and his blood work showed a couple of worrisome anomalies in enzymes that could mean heart or nerve tissue damage. So hearing that everything was normal is a great relief.

I also bought more the regular dry cat food that I had been feeding to the office cats in the past. For the last couple of weeks, I had switched to a light diet food. The girls have been voting with their stomachs: "What IS this crap? We're not eating this, except out of total desperation." The rest of the diet food is now mixed with a large bag of the regular food, so it should be tolerable.

Randy dropped a leaf of spinach on the floor. Saffy picked it up like a trophy, carried it off, then ate it. After that, she raced around like a lunatic. Randy figures it was the Popeye Effect. Spinach power!

Poor Pippin is having problems. We've had incidents of bloody diarrhea, including a rather disgusting accident in the dining room. It's highly unusual for our cats not to use the box. We were fairly sure it was Pippin, given the condition of his rear end lately. Randy kept a close eye on him during the day until we confirmed it beyond doubt.

Randy took him to the vet this afternoon. The vet suspects colitis caused by some sort of food allergy, most likely to a meat protein. She wants us to gradually change him over to a different food, specifically some kind of unique protein like duck or venison. So I'll be out buying gourmet cat food for the boy this weekend. In the meantime, we've added pumpkin puree to his diet.

In related news, Tosca is now doing extremely well with pumpkin as a daily part of her meals. I'm lucky that she likes it so much.

Zoe ended up getting an extra dose of trank tonight. Things have been so peaceful for so long, I was actually once again considering trying to wean her off it. Then she pulls this stunt. She attacked Jetta, chased her around the office and ran off with Jetta's fur still clinging to her mouth when I broke it up. Brat.

Five minutes later, all three of them were sitting around the water bowl together, though I could see that Zoe continued to plot trouble. I gave her a warning. Now, with the extra trank kicking in, she's curled up next to my keyboard give me her Big Innocent Eyes. I am not fooled.

I turned away from my computer last night and found a good-sized lizard, sans tail, in the middle of the office floor. It had somehow found its way inside, into the lions' den, became a toy and was left, more or less intact, behind my chair. It wasn't moving much, but was still alive and didn't appear badly damaged from the outside. The missing tail actually looked as though it had happened some time ago and was starting to regrow, rather than my cats doing it. I rescued the poor thing and put it in the bushes outside. My Sierra foothills Moggy Horde, who had experience as outdoor hunters, would have eaten it, but these indoor moggies haven't learned that particular skill. Just as well. I rather like lizards and would rather have them whole and well in the yard.

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