Since she’s become ambulent, one of the pecadillos Maggie has been able to indulge more easily is her taste for cat food. Given the slightest opportunity, she will make a beeline for the cats’ bowl and start scarfing down the cheap, dry food we give them, which she evidently finds preferable to any human food we’ve sent her way. We’ve now taken to putting the cat dish in the laundry room and keeping a very careful eye on the door so that our cats don’t waste away to nothing.

She is developing a nice shiny coat, though.