I just wanted to say thank you so much!

It was at your urging that I ordered my digital baby scale (I actually got a
killer of a deal on a brand new one on eBay for $11 US and $20 US S+H - and
it's as accurate down to the fraction of an ounce as the vet's scale!).

Jessie had been looking lethargic for a few days, but I might have wrote
that off to the heat and drought we're experiencing in Houston right now.
It's hard to keep exact track of what each one eats since I have four and
they pretty much free feed even their canned food (and as I mentioned in
another post, I don't interact with Jessie as much as with our other three
since she's *such* a "daddy's girl").

When I got the scale, about three weeks ago, I weighed each of the girls.
Jessie was 7.5 lbs then (her last vet record had her weight at 7.0 lbs*).
So after two days of her acting lethargic I plopped her on the scale again
and she weighed 7.15 lbs.  3.5 oz in a cat that small is a pretty
significant amount, so it was off to the vet right away.  *If the vet had
gone by that recorded weight alone, she would have thought Jessie had
*gained* a half ounce rather than just losing 3.5 oz!

As a result we caught whatever it is soon enough to treat it easily and were
alerted to the weight loss soon enough to get her on the cyproheptadine and
A/D before she suffers any side effects from a greater weight loss.

Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for your advice and let you know that you
saved my little girl from a lot worse illness than what she has!

Hugs,

CatNipped