Ruby saw Dr K yesterday for her yearly wellness exam and vaccinations. As usual, she charmed the office staff and was a model patient during the exam. Dr K said she looks great and asked what we feed her (mostly Wellness small breed formula, supplemented with Wellness canned food). She’s almost 16 months old, 18.8 lb, and in great physical condition.
Because going to the vet once this weekend just wasn’t enough, we took Asrael to see Dr K this morning. He’s been dragging his butt on the floor for the past couple of weeks and I was starting to worry about worms or impacted anal glands. His anal glands turned out to be fine and the vet gave him a topical parasite treatment and will check in with us next week. After all we went through trying to get his allergies under control a couple years ago, I’m hoping we don’t have to do another round of elimination diet with him. He’s somehow gained 3 lb in the past year (up to 17.8 lb), which is surprising. The only thing I can think of that might be to blame is switching his diet from about 50/50 dry and canned to mostly dry food. Might be too many carbs for him. I’ll start giving him more canned food and see if he slims down a bit. He’s always been a big, solid, muscular cat, but creeping up on 20 lb is worrisome.
