vet visit

Tonight's was not one of the better trips to the vet, despite the best efforts of my vet and her assistant to make things go smoothly. (My vet and the assistant rock, and when I go back in a few weeks I should take them cookies or something.) I'm not sure what got into Erik and Baldur tonight.

( in which we talk about biology and behavior )

I couldn't get three adjacent appointments, so I'll have to go back another time with Embla. I made this appointment as "Erik plus one" and that was ok with them. (The vet specifically wanted to see Erik tonight.) I'm not surprised that I was unable to capture Embla tonight.

But in interesting news, it seems the Atkins craze has cat-food analogues. I had commented that I expected Erik to have gained some weight (he didn't) because he's been getting canned cat food (to bury medicine in); the vet told me that actually, anecdotal evidence suggests that cats are more likely to lose weight on canned food. The dry stuff, by contrast, is full of carbs. Mind, this isn't scientifically-validated research; it's just what some vets have started to talk casually with each other about. Curious.