Today is, as I found out this morning, International Cat Day - taking place annually on August 8. And because that is the perfect excuse to not write a long blog post today, and instead delight you (well, hopefully) with a cat picture, here you go:
Madame is, not surprisingly but still a little sadly, getting old. She's always had some food intolerances, but those got much more severe last year. After several months of searching for a possible cause, we did find out that it's probably the thickening additives in the canned cat food that she reacts to... and that ruled out about all kinds of available canned pet food (in combination with the kinds of meat she cannot have, there's about nothing left that would work for her).
So we switched to mixing her food ourselves, which means buying meat and adding in all the vitamins, minerals, and other things that are necessary to achieve the right amount of everything. Definitely not a low-maintenance cat - but she is much better now, having less issues with scratching herself, and also no more bad gut issues. The past few days, though, she seems to have hip pains :( and we hope that getting her some more aids to get onto her fave spots without jumping, and providing her with some nice warm spots, will help.
Growing old is not for cowards...