Ms. Wally is not going to give up.

She’s pretty frail these days, and has up days and down days.

The last few days have been “down” days for her, marked by picky eating and lots of needy lap sitting. And, with Meda in California for a several days at the UC Irvine campus, I’m the only lap available. At least she doesn’t bite my hand or my arm while in my lap, which is one of Romeo’s attention-getting tricks.

Yesterday I used the occasion of her presence in my lap to trim her claws, front and back. And today I tried some salmon cat food, which she liked. I’m hoping that this will spark her appetite and turn this into an “up” day. We’ll see.

I opened the door and let the cats out into the yard this morning when I got back from the early morning walk to the beach. All went out. Annie returned after about 45 minutes. She was the last to return. Romeo was back in about 30 minutes. Duke immediately went under the house, probably in search of Lumber, then came up on to the back deck and wanted to get back in. Toby sat on the grass for a while, then returned. Wally just took in a bit of sun on the deck. Kili did a bit of sun and some grass sitting as well.

So it was a good morning, from the cats’ perspective.

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