Abelard = 6.6 lbs.

"Yowie" wrote in message
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"Gandalf" wrote in message

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat"
wrote:

I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It
was a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than
6.5 lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's
too thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of
being semi-comfortable this winter.


Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat!

But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of
course.

Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully.

I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm,
and I can add more clothing.

I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at work,
and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house.

Is that considered cold for inside the house on a winter night?

It gets colder here at night (down to about 10C, 50F, sometimes a little
colder) and I've never bothered to leave the heating on after I've gone to
bed. One nice thick doona (duvet, comforter) and flannelette pyjamas and
I'm toasty warm. I figure the cats, having a natural fur coat, can easily
cope with those sorts of temperatures.

I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before the
sun starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the place - it
keeps the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to open up the
windows, even on winter days, because of the sun). The A/C comes back on
at some point after the sun going down, and usually stays on till we go to
bed. But at the moment, with me sitting in my flanny PJs and bedsocks
(yes, such a sexy image), I am perfectly comfortable without the A/C. Suki
is curled up on the printer (which will no doubt soon suffer the same
cause of death as the two previous ones - cat hair overload), Shadow is
curled up on 'her' mat on the kitchen floor (woe betide another cat that
thinks of putting so much as a whisker near its perimeter) and Pickle is
once again shedding into the clean laundry pile. None of them are seeking
out the natural heat sources (me, the computers, the top of the tv, top of
the fish tank light, etc). I reckon its about 13C, 55F in here at the
moment.


That would be "warm" for my house in the winter if I was out at work or in
bed (which means my woodburner would be too)
Am I the only person who has found my flannel (face towel) had fallen into
the bath and frozen to the plughole overnight? Probably ;-)

Tweed