We realized there are many things to be thankful for.

Here are a few things that we’re thankful for.

We are no longer renters worrying about what our landlord will say if they discover we have four cats.

Kali and Kiko share the Amazon nesting box without getting territorial. Translation: This box doesn’t get peed in.

The Science Diet TD, a dry cat food that promises to promote dental health for our cats’ remaining teeth, has been well received. They all seem to like it. It reminds me that we’ve been through this before after several cats lost teeth in a round of dental exams. I eventually took them off the TD because Kinikini was gaining weight, or so I thought. Our vet, Ann Sakamoto, reminded me last week that this problem can be dealt with by portion control. Fair point. Although we’ve had at least one cat that seemed to survive the loss of all his teeth, we’re trying to avoid a recurrence.

We’re thankful that our middle-aged cats are in relatively good health, for the selfish reason that it makes it less stressful for us to travel.

Although Kinikini is FIV positive, he has not had any health issues related to FIV. We keep a close eye on him, since he could be susceptible to dangerous infections, but so far all has been well.

And we are thankful that nearly four years after we brought home The-Cat-Now-Known-As-Bessie, she’s not picked on so much by her housemates, and the harrassment isn’t as serious as it was earlier. It’s all relative, and things are relatively much better.

I could go on, but it’s time for the cats to make their weekly appearance.