Summer Salutations All!

Having sojourned with our dear Anastasia only yesterday, I have great news. She’s doing well, really well.

Of course, she’s in fact her usual self…. ever so pleased to see me when I arrive and ever so eager to display her ability to consume.

Keyword here folks: consume.

It is but a myth that cats purr, ‘a silly wives tale if you will.

Well, actually they do. Perhaps I exaggerate. However Ana does not. Purr, that is. This, I know first hand.

I walk in, greet her, she pops right up, wants to be petted. I pick her up, hold her close, and I can hear the purr – what I think to be a purr.

But in closer aural detail, I’ve discovered it’s not at all a purr as we know it, rather it’s the soft, subtle articulation of the words pddddddconsumeddddddddd, pddddddconsumeddddddddd, pddddddconsumeddddddddd.

Translated – consume.

Upon further research I looked up the correct definition of the word, only to discover the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language has updated the definition to be…

con’sume (kon-soom)

v. con’sumed, con’sum’ing, con’sumes


v. tr.

1. To take in as food; eat or drink up by Anastasia, a female cat residing at Tabby’s Place in Ringoes, NJ.

2. See definition 1.

3. See definition 2.

4. See definition 3.

But let me get to the good news regarding our Lady Ana….Ana was to begin on steroids, but has ended up not needing them at all. Her IBD/gulping has improved greatly with her new prescription diet.

Yes, diet. In Ana’s opinion: “Bring on the pizza.” No, Ana. Sorry.

She very well may have to be on this diet for the rest of her life, but if her condition is entirely treatable this way, I say bring it on.

So does Ana for that matter. Choosing between this food diet versus the opposite, let me be the first to share she has made it very clear she’s very cool with the idea.

Ana’s no longer keeping alone by the way. She now has Desi as a roommate. The two are bound to argue over who gets to hang what poster of Hello Kitty over their dressers, but I think they’ll get over it.

Desi (pictured below) has an autoimmune disease in which he’s allergic to the plaque in his mouth. The prescription diet helps him, so now he and Ana can be on the diet together.

And they can listen to records together, and fight over the cell phone, and make remarks about how bad summer television is.

Mind you, Ana’s not paid the cable bill in some time, so I’m real curious to how this will sit with Desi.

At least there’s take-out. No, wait… forgot about that 4-letter word.

Diet.

Yep.

Bring it on…