Less Cat

Read Ted Chiang's "The Story of Your Life" yesterday. It probably was my favorite of the ones I read. I like the way it jumps around and the form matches the content in that you know how it's going to play out from the beginning even though you think there's more. Mary Beth and I also watched the latest installment of Women Vs. Tropes in Video Games and it kept up its goodness. This morning we got up to take the cats to the vet. They did well. They've both lost weight, but Horace especially! (I mean, he's the one who needed it the most and with the most weight to lose.) He went from 19-something pounds down to 13-something! That's a lot! We'd been noticing he was thinner for a while (I mean, you can tell he has bones and stuff) but this was more loss than I was expecting. The vet was very proud of him and they brought in their social media guru to take pictures and put him up on facebook as a weight loss success story! Our vet says he's at a good place and doesn't need to lose any more. He was also well-behaved and they said he was the patient of the day. Trudy felt a little more traumatized at the vet, but acted the least so when we got back home. Horace did his usual run off and hide, but we gave them some extra food and Trudy had the lion's share and ate most of both bowls and Horace only had a little bit when he came out of hiding.