These sweet folks live on the island of Martha’s Vineyard (when Alex called in to CAT CHAT® he had to find a hilltop to stand on for a phone signal!). This is their sweet account of how their beloved cat Hampton has flourished now that he’s on exclusively wet food. He’s a lucky kitty cat, because his veterinarian makes house calls:
I can’t tell you how happy we all are about Hampton’s progress! Hampton’s doctor came for his annual visit on Monday and weighed Hampton in at 17.9 pounds! 2.1 pounds [lost] in two weeks – we can hardly believe it. Where we once thought Hampton was “knocking off the local rodents” to protest his hunger. We now think he’s doing it because he has more energy. Who ever said that humans are the only animal that hunts for sport?! Hampton used to use empty dinning room chairs as a pathway, or ladder, to get on top of the dinning room table and see what everyone was eating for dinner. To prevent him from doing this, we would push the chairs under the table – keeping him on the ground. Even though Hampton’s very happy with his new diet, he remains certain that what Carol and I eat is better than what he gets. Now that he’s lost over two pounds, our chair trick has become obsolete. Hampton doesn’t need the chairs any more – he just jumps up onto the table from the ground. Because Hampton was never a very good jumper, this new found talent of his came as quite a shock to us. If this is the price for a healthy and happy cat we may as well set a place for him too. We just wont tell him his menu is different from ours. The evidence in incontrovertible! Hampton looks smaller, he has more energy, his eyes are brighter and he is happy. Even though the contest is over we will keep you posted with stories of Hampton and his progress. Thank you again for getting the information out to your listeners and us – we couldn’t be happier with the results!
Your friends,
Carol and Alex
