Thug progress

The current theory (based on an expensive battery of blood tests) is that Chino is fighting off an infection. He has had a long-acting  antibiotic jab, and is off the poppy juice and back on his normal arthritis meds. Until this morning, he was still stubbornly refusing to eat but he sneaked into the kitchen overnight to clean the saucer of gooshy fudz that I'd left for him, and has demanded to be fed twice more, even condescending to eat some of his normal pellets. So the vet and I have had a guardedly optimistic conversation today and agreed that he doesn't need to be taken in to be put on a drip...