My New Kitten - October 2007

Since it has been over 20 years since I have had a kitten in my home I could be forgiven for not remembering exactly how manic they really are!

I can hear myself in the consulting room reassuring concerned clients that kittens are either going at 90 miles an hour or are sound asleep and that the behaviour they are describing is perfectly normal! But I am sure that this stray kitten given to me for my birthday (a bit of a busman's holiday if you ask me!) must have eaten some performance enhancing drugs to see the speed he moves at in the evening!

Appetite? He could eat for England (well Scotland actually now that we are sadly the obesity league champions of Europe).

And the worms? Who would have thought that something that small could produce so many worms.

Just as well I have a never ending supply of top of the range worming tablets! As a vet's pet he can look forward to a lifetime of the very latest treatments for worms, fleas and vaccinations............all for his own good, although I suspect that this chap may take some convincing.

Who knows if he grows large enough he may even become a blood donor. At least he will get involved in the taste tests of the latest recommended cat foods!