my cat came when i put out food. i found out yesterday that he was a kitten that the people up the hill next door to me were feeding.

he was very sick when i got him, ear infection, gingevitis, ear and eye mites, and some kind of upper lung congestion. i took him to the vet and they did surgery on his mouth and gave me medicine which cured everything except for the lung congestion and ear mites. i think he has asthma, in fact, but he didn't start coughing regularly until after his visits to the vet.

supposedly i can fix the ear mites by cleaning his ears regularly but i have tried to do this a bit and it doesn't seem to stop them. i think that the ear mites and lung congestion will be reduced if i just take him with me to a drier, higher altitude place than the seaside location i'm in.

anyway, i hope you find a way to give your beast relief, i presume you mean that dog i've seen in photos.

for us lonely folk, a pet is essential, and will get all the spends that we might have directed towards family things. so, i consider the animal lucky, but i sure will make certain when i do have family to care for that they get more than the pet. but the pet will still be taken care of.