I appreciate your heartfelt tribute to Montgomery. Your love and affection for him are palpable and come through with great feeling. His photo is swell!

All of us who live with domestic feline companion animals know only too well that with the joys comes travail.

I am extremely uneasy with these teeth cleanings, especially in older age, so promoted by some veterinarians. More cats succumb to the anaesthesia than you might care to know, and the vets doing these procedures are, in my experience, not very forthcoming about the very significant risks. So what is there for it? One seems stuck between Scylla and Charybdis: a very uncomfortable dilemma indeed.