Good thing work is light today so I was able to bring Kimchi to a new vet clinic that I wanted to try.

I told the vet to do a general check up, including x-ray so everything will be covered.

Despite her obesity, her bloodwork is ok, everything is normal, including her heart. She’s just too fat. X-ray showed that her stomach is empty and there’s a thickening of the stomach lining, kind of irritated/inflamed given that it’s distendend by gas or stomach acids. Her intestines are fine and are digesting food. She has poop in her lower bowel, no blockage.

She just stopped eating her kibbles and is now suffering from gastritis.

She’s stressed.

What an expensive way to know that she’s stressed.

The vet asked, what changes happened that caused her so much stress?

Geez, the kids. I hosted too many kids — my children and their friends — last Saturday because they used our house as a pit stop to the university fair. My cats do not like strangers. Noisy strangers at that.

As my high school classmate-vet told me, cats are like human children that are under the autism spectrum. They cannot handle too much stimuli.