A Tubby Triumph

When I adopted Benny and Casey about four and a half years ago, they both weighed about 12 lbs. Pretty plump for cats, but they eventually got down to a good fighting weight of about 9 or 10 lbs. Last year Benny started mysteriously losing weight and rapidly dropped 4.5lbs- half of her body weight- in about a year. We never really figured out what was wrong with her, but after dozens of visits to various vets, she seems to be on the mend. And today when I went in to weigh her, she tipped the scales at a tubby 7lbs even!!! That's over a 2lb gain since Christmas!!! No one can account for the change, except that we stopped giving her all the pills that her first vet prescribed and let her eat kitty junk food instead of all that organic health crap. I almost started crying in the vets' office- about six months ago I was pretty sure that she wouldn't last this long, and now it looks like she's almost as good as new. Of course, now Casey is dropping weight for no apparent reason, but she's still heavier than Benny so I'll take a couple minutes to celebrate before starting the worry cycle all over again.

Isn't she gorgeous!?