Thank you for your reply Smokey. I've changed the vet appt. to tomorrow (Wed.) night at 7:30pm. I'm encouraged by the information coming from this forum. The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that if a new diet does not work (I'll give it 6 months), I'll let it run it's course. Speckles will be a very unhappy cat if she needs to get poked all the time (as it is, she hates to be picked up or even held). I'd rather see her have one happy good-quality year than 3 or 4 unhappy years. We'll see.

Thank you to all!

slick
max & speckles