we wuz purraying fer annie and mao to come home safe and sound. we jus didnt gets to post thare pikshures. we is fery glad they is home. we hopes skeezix donts gets too pooped doin his happy danse.



YUKI: as the spokescat fer ars fambly, i ams gonna tell yus abouts whys we hafnts been postin. moms been busy wif kintaro. he has been kinda sick. he started out pukin once a day the first day she gots him home. she thots it mite be frum the trip and tryin to get settled in the house wif us two girls. we has been perty hissy arounds hims.

KIMIKO: he got puky lots on Chrissymouse day. he had to stay in his room cuz one of the beans is a-lergic to cats. so mommees thots he gots a nervous tummy. but instead of gettin better he just stayed the same. mommee has taken him to the vets a couple of times and he finally gots pikshures of his insides taken and they tooks his blood. see what happens wens the vet takes yur blood. yu get so poopsed yu cants efen curl up to take yur nap.

YUKI: all of his tests came back negative. ans now he gots the runs. mommees feels sorry fer hims cause his poor hiney looks so sad efery time she gots to wash hims. we fink it mus be em-bear-es-sin to be a half wet cat.



KIMIKO: our vets name is doktor bell. he gaves mommees sum medicines to gifs kintaro. when mommees looked at the package it wuz the same stuff she wuz taken in the big bean hospital when she had her tummy problems. she tooks fla-gel but hims is taken metro-ni-daz-ole. we is callin it metro days. kintaro hafs to take it fer 5 whole days. it is an anty biotik and it in-hi-bits the immune system. doktor bell says he thinks kintaro has in-flamin-toy bowl daseese (inflammatory bowel disease).

KINTARO: iffens any of yus cats gots this in-flamin-toy bowl daseese please hafs yur bean tell mommees what yu can abouts it. she gots sum information off of the pet education site from dr. foster & smith site. but she wants to hear frum real kitties and beans. fanks yu fer yur helps.