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This isn't good. Woke up this morning and went down to the kitchen (where Ziggy sleeps every night) and instead of having a lively, cheerful, purring cat meet me, he was still asleep on the table top. Since then he's been very lethargic and just wanting to sleep. He doesn't seem in distress and he sounds like he's breathing alright, but just seems unusually tired. He ate most of the food I left our overnight, and he now snoozing on the bed, but this is very unusual behaviour.
 
Well, he's really not looking too good. He's super lethargic although he managed to saunter over to get a few treats. I'm taking him to the vets tonight.
 
I wasn't even aware there was a mouse in the flat, but Radar found one and very quickly caught and killed it last night. He is a great mouser, and doesn't play with them while they are alive - he dived towards a dark corner of the hall, grabbed something, ran into the bedroom with it, put a paw on its hind legs and held its head in his mouth and yanked its head upwards breaking its neck. Was over in seconds. I was torn between being impressed and horrified.

editor - good luck with Ziggy
 
brighton cat bus

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(most Brighton & Hove buses get named after past / present residents)

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Babs and Bel have been spayed. Babs is fine but Bel is not so good. Phoning vets when it opens. She hasn't eaten, was sick in the night and has hardly moved since she came home :(
 
Bel has been back to the vets as a precaution. She's had a painkiller injection and how she is seems to just be because of the anaesthetic. She had an enlarged uterus so has had a lot more done to her too.
 
My One-eyed cat has lost his meow.

If he make sure the effort he can manage a croaky mewl but otherwise he’s silent.

I’m worried. It could be something, or nothing. I’ve had a good feel about in his throat but can’t find any obvious lumps. His thyroid doesn’t feel hard or enlarged. He’s not got any symptoms of an upper respiratory infection that might have given him a sore throat.

He’s old, and skinny because he’s old. He eats several times a day (he had roast chicken for his tea yesterday) but he can’t seem to gain any weight, but he’s not losing any either. He’s fussy, so as soon as he starts to like one type of food, he goes off it again. I have to rotate between several different brands.

The last time he was checked over (November last year) he was in good general health: heart kidneys thyroid all fine.

I’m hoping that he shouted himself hoarse when the house was empty. He’s pretty much deaf so he can’t hear himself roar, so that’s a possibility. Hopefully his meow will come back and I can stop worrying. In the meantime it’s quite nice that he can’t wake me up at dawn with his vocal requests for attention.
 
I came across a single Missy hair the other day, and it's the weirdest shit ever. In one strand, about 10cm long, was divided into three colours: dark, golden, dark again. It's how she gets her curious highlights, but I am really confused as to how one can alter a hair's colour as it grows.
 
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