Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The only skinny one in the family

So my very fuzzy cat Joey had a "spa day" yesterday. In other words he spent the day at the vet being poked, prodded, stuck with needles etc.. Too look at him you wouldn't know he was not much more than a bag of bones but when you pick him up you can tell he has lost a lot of weight. He is 15 so it is expected he will have some health problems. Well it turns out he has an overactive thyroid which is why we went from 17 pounds or so to roughly 11. He is still bigger than the dog but now weighs less. The good news is with some daily medicine (which should be interesting to administer to him) he should be fine for several more years. Which was good news to me. Hopefully he will get some of his weight back on. can't have one skinny family member when the rest of us are not.



Grover was very happy to see Joey come home fro the "spa day" since he missed having Joey around for the day but as soon as he arrived home Grover's sniffer went into over drive and he had to sniff Joey all over several times cause he suspiciously smelled like Dr. Dave's office. I think Grover wanted to make sure he didn't bring home anyone from the office with him. Then of course Grover wanted to play and poor Joey just wanted to be left alone.