Two Steps Forward ...

... and one step back. When I got home tonight, Bullwinkle was in a pretty bad mood, whining and looking rather disgruntled. Naturally I did what any good kitty mother/housekeeper would do -- I gave him pain meds through his feeding tube immediately. :-)

His neck is very itchy and his mouth is bothering him -- he keeps reaching up with both paws to try to get something out of his mouth. But when I rattled the magic bottle -- the plastic container with kitty tartar control treats -- he barreled across the room and up onto the second level of the cat tree, which is the only acceptable place to eat kitty treats (everyone knows that!). I put a few out ... and he actually ate some! Keep in mind that these are hard treats -- amazing.

The photo is one of the earliest I have of Bullwinkle (and uh, yeah... I was a bit younger then too). It was taken with the very first digital camera I had -- a Sony Mavica that recorded the pictures to a floppy.