So on my way to work I got handed a pamphlet that said something like,

"Even if you like meat, you can still fight animal cruelty!"

And I thought, 'hey! PETA finally got a clue! They're appealing to us happy meat-eaters who are against animal torture! What a good way to become relevant!' I figured the pamphlet was full of ways I could avoid buying meat from places that like, kick little lambies, or make bacon by bashing pigs' skulls in with a rock, or whatever.

Nope.

The inside of the pamphlet went on to say,

"If everyone ate just half the meat they normally do, 30 million animals would be spared fates like this: (gruesome picture of dead chicken)"

So fucking stupid. When will PETA learn that most of us LIKE eating meat, and they will never convince us otherwise, but they'd have our support if they just appealed to the love of pain-free animal living that everyone can agree on?

My cat rarely ever gets sick. Actually, in the 7 years I've had him he's been noticeably sick only once.

Last night when I came home I fed him and he wouldn't eat. My cat loves food more than any cat I've ever met. I thought maybe he was just being finicky, most likely bored with his food, so I brought out some treats and he wouldn't eat those, either. I'm going to bring home a can of tuna tonight and see if he eats that.

To all the cat owners on the Killoggs, how long do you wait before taking a cat to the vet because of disinterest in food? 1 day? 2? It's been less than 24 hours at this point. I check his littler and it seems fine. I cleaned it to see if he uses it at any point today.

He's giving me those mildly sleepy-eyed looks that terrify me. The last time i saw sleepy eyes on an animal was when I tried to save a fledgling bird Trout brought in to play with later. Before I went to bed I chekced in on the little bird and he looked up at me with sleepy eyes. The next morning he was dead.

I am very very sensitive to my cat's health and have rushed him to the emergency room for ailments that probably didn't even deserve a vet visit, let alone a $600 emergency room visit (they ended up operating on him, don't ask, long story). So I'm trying to figure out if I'm just overreacting about this.

Advice!