Weight loss

Well, I'm now down to 22lbs. I'm wasting away! I couldn't stop throwing up for a while about six months ago, and so Mom took me in and it turns out I have irritable vowel syndrome, or something. So they put me on special food, which is ok, I like it, but they don't give me nearly enough of it! I like being able to run and jump more, though.

Not so big!

I know I haven't updated this in ages, but I've been busy. I had some trouble earlier this year - I couldn't hold my food down. It was horrible! My mom took me to the scary vet place, and they had to keep me and I had a tube in my leg and everything - it kinda sucked. But I'm doing better. They said I have a condition called irritable bowel, and I have to have special food, and a pill. Plus I had to lose the weight. So now I'm down to under 25 pounds, and the vet says maybe 4 or 5 more pounds to go. They're starving me! But I can fit in Mom's lap now, mostly, and I can get up on the dresser again, so that's kinda cool. And the vet guy says we can try pills only every third day now - he says I'm on pills for life, but maybe only once a week - I sure hope - I hate taking pills!

They cut back my food!

Mom says that if I want to have treats I'm going to have to deal with less of my normal food.

She says I'm never going to stop begging for treats, since 8 months of no treats hasn't slowed me down, so she better figure a way to work them in.

I thought she was going to add them to my daily ration, not replace some of it!

She says that since my main treat is my kitty vitamin, I'm still getting all the calories and nutrients I need with less food, so I better just get used to it because I have to lose this weight.

I am NOT happy!

Thanks for the daily pick!

I just wanted to write (well, dictate - sadly the lack of opposable thumbs and articulated fingers makes it hard to use a keyboard) and thank the Catster people for making my diary a daily pick.

I also want to thank my mom for typing these for me. Even though sometimes she corrects my grammar (Hey, I'm a cat - not like I went to college or anything!) and I find that annoying.

Curses - foiled again!

I was soooo close!

I had Dad's watch all the way into the hall. I was just gonna use it to keep track of when Mom gets home so that I know when I'm supposed to be fed.

But Dad caught me and took it, and now it is in a drawer and I can't get it open!

Grrrr.

Then I decided that I would just buy one myself. I took all of the change off of the nightstand, and for good measure I took Dad's keys and this thing with his picture on it, too.

But they caught me, and put all of it in that darned drawer.

So very close.

Apparently I have been eating "too much".

What the heck? I'm still not getting nearly enough food, but the humans took me to the scary vet place and weighed me and they said I gained half a pound. I don't understand how that is possible since they are completely starving me.

Ok, I did manage to talk them into give me a few bits of turkey here and there when they make sandwiches. But now they say that has to stop, and now whenever I ask for food I get picked up! What is that?

Although sometimes they'll get out that thing that makes the fun red dot when I ask them for food, and that's kinda fun, too.

New place for me to hang out!

Mom has had the bathroom door closed all the time for about a month now. Lots of banging and other loud noises from in there.

Last weekend she opened the door again, and it was all different!

The new sink is big! Big enough for me! I never sat in the old one because it was too small, but the new one is huge, huge, huge. I like to sit in there.

Mom says she'll have to start closing the door again to keep me out...but I like it in there. I hope she doesn't. It should be a nice cool place for me to hang out this summer with the cold porcelain and all.

She says she got the parts to fix the cat tree, which she says I broke, but I didn't! It was Boober. Nevermind that Boober doesn't weigh anything much, it was her. Really. Not me.

New picture

Hi everyone,

Mom took some new pictures of me. She says I'm getting closer to 25lbs, but we won't know until she can take me to the vet to be weighed. I am definitely slimmer, as you can see.

Mom says to keep it up, and someday I can have some treats again.

I sure do like chasing after the laser pointer these days. I feel like a kitten again!

Had an accident today

I fell off a windowsill. We had to go to the vet, but thankfully nothing is broken. Mom has to give me medicine every day and I'm supposed to rest until I'm better. I'm good at resting.

But on the plus side, when I got on the scale it read 26 pounds 15 ounces. I told Mom I could lose this weight. I've lost almost three pounds!

I'm climbing again

I guess this weight loss thing isn't all bad. I now feel like I can climb the cat tree again. It shakes a bit, even though mom got a cinder block to put at the base. They said when it is in the new house they are going to put "seismic straps" on it.

Jeez, I knew I was big but I didn't think I was *that* big. I don't make earthquakes, you know!

It's nice up there. Besides, if I'm up there the my stupid sister Boober can't go up there. Hah!