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CAT NEWS

Féline has taught herself how to hoppity-hop up to the apartment’s prime napping spot near the radiator on my bed. That spot belongs to Zeki, usually, but she’s not letting the opportunity of his absence go to waste. Her recovery continues apace. She could do without the cone around her head. On the other hand, she’s pleased that she’s finally trained me to leap up every five minutes to feed her tuna. By hand.

Good news on the Zeki front. His creatine levels dropped by almost fifty percent overnight, which is hugely encouraging. The vet is pleased. I’ve just been to visit him. He’s not happy about being in cat-prison, but he’s looking much better—he’s all plump from the fluids, so he no longer has that dehydrated, ratty-furred look that alarmed me. He’s eating normally again. Apart from being visibly stoned out of his mind on the bupe they put in his IV, he looked perfectly healthy to my eye—and in no way did he look like a cat who’s ready to meet his maker.

THE EUROFILE

Substack sent me an email telling me I have three one-month gift subscriptions to Monique Camarra’s Eurofile to give away. We’re great fans of the Eurofile here at CG. I’d be delighted to give these to the first three readers who request them. Just send me an email.

THANKS!

I saw that a few of you subscribed after I mentioned the vet bills. Thank you. It really helps, and I so hope you’ll enjoy CG this year and think it was worth it. For those of you who asked what you could do if you subscribe already, here’s a suggestion:

Some of our readers are students, and others live in countries where the currency isn’t strong against the dollar. So if you donate subscriptions, you support CG, help with the vet bills, and you make CG available to, say, students in Ethiopia. Another bonus is that the more people subscribe, the more Substack promotes us, so donating subscriptions (or just subscribing) helps bring in more subscribers:

TANKS!

What a week, no? Yes, I was following the news—vet visits involve a lot of sitting around in the waiting room with a freaked-out cat. So I kept up with the tank drama. Here’s everything you need to know about how the tanks might change the course of the war in Ukraine.