but our 1615-year-old Turkish Van, Snoopy, hasn’t eaten for a couple of days and is going to the vet at noon for a checkup. Snoopy has hyperthyroidism and we’ve been medicating him for that for about the past six months.
So even though I know a lot of you folks are dog people, if you’d spare a word for Snoopy with the Power That Is, Sally and I would be greatly appreciative.
Sally got Snoopy from Cats Haven when he was about 6 months old. She was looking for a black cat because she wears a lot of black. Snoopy came up to her with his weepy eye (he was apparently born with some sort of infection in it) and patted her face with his paw, and that was all she wrote. He is one of about 100 cats the Cats Haven people found locked in their delivery van one fine and chilly morning.
Cats Haven does the Lord’s work for our furry feline friends. Please consider a donation if you love kitties.
Obligatory picture of our little fella:
(That’s 22-pound Tiggr to the left.)
Thanks for your support 🙂
UPDATE: Snoopy weighs 5.13 pounds (down from 7), is dehydrated, and (as a result) is constipated. They’re keeping him overnight to rehydrate and clean him out, and they’re going to do blood work and some other tests to see if we’re still on the right dosage of the thyroid medication.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)