Super Svelte Portia
Yes, you read that correctly, our ten ton behemoth has become a svelte superstar and we’re not even sure how it happened. With all the wet food she’s been getting, courtesy of Turq, and the old bait and switch con they have going (he asks for more and when it’s put out he walks away and leaves her to it) we’d assumed she was headed to the twenty ton mark. Wrong! All the bounding around this summer seems to worked its magic and she is officially at a healthy weight. (I should hope so since she lost over three and a half pounds in the last year.) This has had a very positive effect on her arthritus and she does not hobble as badly as she used to.
We found all this out when Portia went in for some innoculations. We also discovered that she has a heart murmur. We’re not surprised since she is 14 years old. We haven’t embarked on any seek and destroy options yet as she does not co-operate with the taking of medicine. (She has the patience of Job when it comes to evading swallowing.) We’ll see how she’s doing next time she needs shots.
Turq latest: the death spiral continues, though it looks like he’ll make it to 2006. He is now exhibiting symptoms related to blindness and we suspect he is losing weight again.
Current temperature 32F/0C
