Ms. Annie welcomes you to another fine Feline Friday. Her week was spiced up by a visit to the Hawaii Kai Veterinary Clinic to visit with Dr. Ann Sakamoto, our regular vet who recently moved from VCA in Kaneohe. It’s a smaller practice, so we won’t be shifting completely from VCA, which maintains longer hours and more specialized services. But Hawaii Kai is closer than Kaneohe, and we have relied on Dr. Sakamoto for years, so it’s likely that we’ll move all the routine care appointments to Hawaii Kai.

Annie cried and yowled all the way from our house to the door of the vet. Then she went silent.

Annie has been a bit “down,” less active than usual, and had some spots of skin problems on her ears and under her chin. The cause of those crusty spots isn’t clear, but it turns out the one under her chin had gotten infected, hence the just not feeling well. So she got an antibiotic shot, we had a good visit with Dr. Sakamoto, and we headed home. The antibiotic seems to have done the trick, at least in terms of her overall affect. As you can see, she’s pretty alert and looking good.

Of course, the afternoon sun creates large patches of sleeping cats, curled up, stretched out, whatever. It’s warm, they’re cats, and so sleep takes over. You’ll see that in this week’s photos.

We recently had our mango trees trimmed and thinned, and that lets more afternoon sun through. Once they start filling out again, it will filter the light. Better for us, probably not as welcomed by the cats.

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