Update on sick animals

Cleo, true to her tortoiseshell personality, is still hanging in there. She's even perked up enough to eat a little. Rose and Marcie came over yesterday, and we all plied her with chicken liver treats. She still has trouble getting around, but she gets there. We negotiated whether she was going to sleep on my head last night and arrived at a compromise.



According to the oncologist, today will be Oka's worst day from the doxirubicin, the last of the induction-phase chemo. Oka is definitely under the weather, wanting to be close to his people, so I've stayed home from Quaker Meeting. I took him for a short walk this morning and he clearly enjoyed sniffing and peeing on things. I took this picture on Friday -- sorry it's so blurry, as I am so not a photographer:



And finally, here's what Oka found in the back yard (outside the deer fencing) a few weeks ago:



You can read more about the story behind the skull on my blog.