November 19th 2004 8:05 am
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I'm still on my diet. It's killing me! I. am. so. hungry. And now, Mom tells me about a horror story with my cousins Puck and Heidi that affects me! Here's how it goes ...

Mom went up to New York on business and went to visit her sister (my aunt), and her sister's kitties (my cousins), Puck and Heidi. My aunt and her husband are selling their house and were having an open house in a few days. So Puck and Heidi had to go stay somewhere else, so they had to go (*gasp!*) to the vet's office for a few days. While Mom and my aunt took them to the vet's office, the vet looked at their teeth and told my aunt that they have inflamed gums in the back and their teeth had a lot of tartar and gingivitis. The vet explained that it had a lot to do with them eating dry food all the time, and the carbs building up on the back teeth since there's no way for us kitties to lick our back teeth to clean them off.

So of course Mom hears this, and as soon as she gets back home, what does she do? She goes STRAIGHT FOR MY TEETH. Now, I like my dry food. I don't get much of it any more because of my diet, but I like it. But NOW, when Mom hears about the evils of dry food, she decides that it's time for me to have some wet food instead of dry. I don't like the wet food all that much! I like the gravy and that's about it. But of course, Mom wants my teeth to be pearly white - I don't know why - so now I'm a wet food kitty. I still get my dry food every once in a while.

Now Mom tells me I can go back on dry food if I will let her brush my teeth after I eat. More torture to look forward to I guess!