Svelte cat-brother

Moses went to the vet on Sunday, not because he also got an upper-respiratory virus, but for his annual check-up. He passed everything with flying colors except for his teeth, which evidently need major cleaning that he won't like. A positive note is that cat-brother has lost almost 4 pounds in the past year, when we started his lard-butt on diet cat food. The vet was very proud.

An additional factor in cat-brother's weight loss, we are sure, is that we live in a place with stairs. Our apartment before this was all on one floor, with no other cat activities but lazing around in the windowsill. Now, cat-brother is exceptionally motivated to run the stairs because it used to be his only way to escape from Isaac. Note how I said "used", because Isaac, in true Rocky-fashion, has been training himself to climb stairs at school. There, they have a baby-workout piece of furniture where one side is a few steps and the other side is a ramp. Evidently, this is one of Isaac's new things -- hanging out on the stairs at all hours, trying to figure them out. And he has. Let us all feel sorry for cat-brother.