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Cats & Spats

I'm off to Cancun for just a few days on Saturday, will have a small army coming - individually - to check on King Raz. He's very old, 17 (I guess he'll be 18 in February, holy shmaholey!) and totally set in his ways. Where he used to go outside for long hours at a time, I didn't even know where he was, now he just goes from one of his beds to the other. Stopping on the way to eat or drink of course, and maybe to visit me for a pet.

He still looks good though, his eyes are shiny and his coat is soft. But most of his teeth are gone, one of those total fang canines snapped off the other week so now when he yawns there's only one sharp tooth on top. He still doesn't have a litter box (well, he has one but its just for emergencies, he hasn't used it in so long he's probably forgotten it's there), uses outside for his bathroom with no problems.

Last time I went away, in September for three days for a conference, he didn't eat the whole time. This time its five days, so I'll be pushing food into his face this whole week just in case it happens again. I guess I'm a bit worried that he'll just pine away without me, give up the ghost as they say. I'd hate for him to go and die, in his sleep or whatever, while I was gone. 

I'm told that's stupid and wouldn't happen. But he's fading you see, the other day he jumped up on the couch and didn't make it, fell over. We'll see I guess.

typical

its awake!!

On a final note, in compliance with Genie's Facebook note about more posts about cats, and following my test listen of Steph's FM station yesterday: of course one of the first few songs I heard was Symbolistic White Walls. The unexpected turn down memory lane prompted me to check out Matt's blog for the first time in ages, where I saw this photo .. . . the cuteness factor doesn't quite seem possible! Nusto kitty??

Matt's Catt