For those who have visited Chez Muffett:

I have two cats, Buster (Grey/White male) and Suzi (Tabby/White female); they’re about 13 years old, and Suzi is fit as ever, if occasionally erratic with epileptic fits.

Buster has started to go downhill – he’s lost a lot of weight and is perhaps 2 or 3 pounds lighter than he ought to be. He eats like a horse but it’s not sticking on him. Doesn’t drink a great deal, but then he never has, at least in the house. He’s been wormed, which I think improved matters temporarily but it’s getting worse again.

The vet now says that one of his kidneys is a bit shrunken, which does not sound good to me. He’s taken to lying outside on the lawn 24×7 and coming in only for meals, and I am trying to encourage him to stay in the house. Sometimes this encouragement means blocking the catflap and carrying him upstaris, but unless he’s being cuddled he prefers to be outside.

He’s going in for blood tests tomorrow. I’ll let you know what happens.