Mist is 18 years old. We've had her ever since she was a kitten. She's napping most of the day, 20 hours or more. There's a box next to my computer with a cushion in it that she really likes. She also seems to like to nap on the corrugated cardboard scratching box on the floor.
She eats reasonably well - half a can of Fancy Feast Classic turkey and giblets or tender beef feast, 4 times a day, topped with a crumbled freeze dried chicken cube. Drinks water. Uses her litter box with no problem.
If we're not awake in a timely enough manner in the morning she comes upstairs. Uses the little step-stool to get up on the bed and purr at us. Comes downstairs by herself too. But she's no longer going upstairs to nap on a chair as she used to do.
She had a dental about a month ago - her teeth were really brown with plaque and her breath smelled very bad. She came home just fine. And hungry.
A few days ago I noticed that she's now missing an upper canine. I'm sure that if it had been extracted at her dental the vet would have told me. Maybe the plaque was holding it in (that's a joke.) And some mornings she has little brown gunky stuff in the corner of her eyes.
I don't think there's anything wrong. I think she's just a tired old lady. Her weight is good, her coat is fine, her eyes are bright.
But 18 years is a good long life and I don't know how much more time we'll have together. I'm sad. And know that TCS is the best place to come for commiseration, now. And later.
She eats reasonably well - half a can of Fancy Feast Classic turkey and giblets or tender beef feast, 4 times a day, topped with a crumbled freeze dried chicken cube. Drinks water. Uses her litter box with no problem.
If we're not awake in a timely enough manner in the morning she comes upstairs. Uses the little step-stool to get up on the bed and purr at us. Comes downstairs by herself too. But she's no longer going upstairs to nap on a chair as she used to do.
She had a dental about a month ago - her teeth were really brown with plaque and her breath smelled very bad. She came home just fine. And hungry.
A few days ago I noticed that she's now missing an upper canine. I'm sure that if it had been extracted at her dental the vet would have told me. Maybe the plaque was holding it in (that's a joke.) And some mornings she has little brown gunky stuff in the corner of her eyes.
I don't think there's anything wrong. I think she's just a tired old lady. Her weight is good, her coat is fine, her eyes are bright.
But 18 years is a good long life and I don't know how much more time we'll have together. I'm sad. And know that TCS is the best place to come for commiseration, now. And later.