Louis Catorze’s Broadline has been discontinued. It’s always stressful when this kind of thing happens because, when it comes to complicated cats like him, it’s not quite as simple as just replacing the discontinued item with something else.
It’s already happened with his food, and with his bowl (well, ok, that wasn’t discontinued – I broke it), and what a saga it was each time. You’d think that, if a cat were hungry enough, they’d just eat. Nope. And you’d also think that, once they’d decided on their favourite food, they’d eat it from whatever serving vessel were provided. Also nope.
Luckily there isn’t the option of accepting or not accepting a spot-on – the little sod has no choice – but I was all ready for a quest through every spot-on treatment in existence, with each one either burning holes in him, making his fur fall out, turning him into some hideous, mutated FrankenRoi or some other catastrophic eventuality that hadn’t yet occurred to me.
The other factor is that Broadline treated both fleas and worms, so it’s imperative that any new treatment does the same, or better. Since Catorze is utterly unpillable and can even make pills disappear at will, it’s absolutely out of the question that I give him both a spot-on AND Greco a worming pill into him.
By some miracle, the vet was able to recommend the perfect solution. Not only does it treat fleas, ticks and TWO types of arse-worm (although I could have done without finding out that there are two types of arse-worm), and not only is it a spot-on liquid and not a tablet, but it only needs to be applied once every three months. Once. Every. Three. Months.
Naturellement there’s a catch: it’s excruciatingly expensive. But, for a treatment that is used so infrequently, no amount of money is too much. And, by the time Cat Daddy finds out the price, I will already have emailed the vet back and begged them to just take my money.
All we need now is for Catorze to take to it, without any drama or unexpected twists. Ahem.
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