Tonight I had an appt to take Shamrock to the vet to get yet
another Depo shot. The last time I had to take him, he'd gone 3
months since the shot before. I had such high hopes that I'd found
the allergy trigger. I thought it was possibly the wheat gluten in
the canned Pro Plan that he loves. I stopped feeding it when I was
trying to get him switched over to Wellness canned. Well, that shot
only lasted a month and for the last couple of weeks he'd been
chewing himself again and I didn't want to get him a shot at the
first sign of itching because, well, he's been getting shots nearly
every other month for the last 2 years. Lots of steroids. But its
all that helps him and I feel so bad to make him wait.

Our vet has a resident cat that was born with a defect - one of her
front paws is curled up and is missing many toes. She's elderly
now, so she has grown used to her disablity and hops around and
even uses part of her leg above the curled foot to put her weight
on rather than hop on three legs. There is a wicker basket in the
waiting room with samples of Science Diet dry food for clients to
take home. Well the little clinic cat (I can never remember her
name) was hanging around the basket and meowing for some. Shamrock
is a noisy cat when he's in the carrier, so he's meowing and she's
meowing back at him. He'd meow again, she'd answer. I wonder what
they were talking about?  I imagine she was complaining about food
that she couldn't get to, and he was complaining about being in the
carrier and just wanted to go home.