What Coffee with Cats is NOT. . .



Coffee with Cats is not a tribute to the coffee bean specially processed by the civet's digestive track.

Coffee with Cats is not a fetish page devoted to the cat cafes of Japan.

What is Coffee with Cats? Keep reading to find out.



The Valentine's Day Card that Started it All

The Valentine's Day Card that Started it All

The Valentine's Day Card that Started it All

The first of the Photoshopped spectaculars, created for my husband in homage of a poster he found in Cairo with a similar disregard for proportion or scale. That's us on the roof. But that's not our real house.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Gordita Visits the Vet

Strombeek was quite a hit at the vet. All the vet assistants had to come in to ooh and aah at her bowling ball-like physique.   
She looks like a cartoon character!
She's built like one of those good luck cats. 
Look how round she is! 
Let me see her face. Oh my gosh, she doesn't even have a neck! 

Dr. Cartlidge was not as taken with her roundness. She was so fat she didn't even feel the needle from her rabies shot!


So now Strombeek is on a vet-mandated diet of wet food only. The vet says it's the kibble that's the villain, that each little niblet is like eating a granola bar. Well, then no wonder she's so fat.

The vet also says that Safeway food isn't any worse than the boutiquey stuff I normally buy. So as soon as we got home I stocked up on Friskies. The vet gave me a list of lower calorie foods, and of course I went with Friskies because of their cool ads.

I notice the first ingredient in many of their canned products is "meat by-product." I guess that means Strombeek is eating old racehorses. Hopefully that will help her lose weight and run fast.


Consider this the "before" picture.  (fingers crossed)

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