After being detained for weeks in an ICE holding facility when he tried to waltz through customs at LAX with a brand new set of sushi knives hidden in his luggage, our Haiku Friday sushi chef is finally back on the job. Break out the wasabi!

 
Food for Thought

Margo sniffs dinner,
hops on the bed to consume
California noir.

Five days after she stopped eating, Margo still seems alert, hydrated, and reasonably active, if a little subdued. I took her to the vet yesterday for bloodwork and urinalysis, and her liver values came back slightly elevated. She'd also dropped a pound over the last week. So she might be relapsing into hepatic lipidosis. The vet encouraged us to offer her lots of different food choices, so Martha picked up some chicken-liver Fancy Feast and a couple other stinky entrees on her way home from work.

No interest when we presented it to her, but somehow the three tablespoons of FF disappeared overnight! We offered her more this morning and she lapped up the gravy, and appears to have nibbled a bit more later. Is she pulling out of this hunger strike? Hard to say. The vet still sensed that she may have an underlying issue with her liver or pancreas, so we're taking her to a hospital-clinic on Saturday for ultrasound. We'll see.

 
Jackie-O Locks On

Her paw treads fur, then
blindly swats an intruder.
It's nipple-shark George.

 
Greeting Her Peeps

Furballs tumble free
as Minnie stands and stretches,
then strolls to the door.

Down in the villa, the Moochers are starting to venture a few inches beyond the nest, using the towel ramp we've placed outside it.

Mom Minnie spends almost half her time lounging on a cool strip of hardwood floor across the room from the nest, probably both because she likes to escape the paws and mouths and because the Moochers are taking up more and more space. And they're big enough to keep each other warm when they nap together.

All the Moochers' eyes are open now, though I found Mamie's right eye glued shut with goop and inflammation yesterday. I used a warm, moist cotton ball to massage it open and gave it a squirt of Terramycin. It looked much better by last night, but we gave her another dose just in case. We've been adding lysine to every meal we serve Minnie (and she looks great), but the feline herpes virus seems capable or materializing out of nowhere. We heard a couple of the Moochers sneeze yesterday.

We'll keep an eye on that (hopefully) minor issue this weekend. And now that the Moochers can see us, we'll try to get a bit more hands-on with them so they can get comfortable with their peeps.

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