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Matilda follows me everywhere. She sleeps on my bed day and night, and she often calls and calls when I'm not in my room, for me to come to the room and be with her. If I leave the house she calls and calls. My mum pacifies her and she now settles down quickly. Her eyes often follow my every move. When I lift my keys she knows that sound, and she knows I am going out. There is resignation and she goes and puts herself to sleep somewhere. She notices everything. When my car pulls up in the driveway, and I put my keys in the front door to unlock it, she has jumped down off my bed watching to see if it's me. I suspect she fears abandonment. Midnight is more of a back bencher. He still has his preference to be outside. Matilda turned 11 years old on the 23rd of December 2016.

Mercedes on the left. Midnight in front. Raphael behind. Charlie behind Raphael. Matilda in the shed way back, on the left out of the sun on a box. She had been in the sun and she got hot.

She is doing well most of the time. She never came back properly after she was poisoned a while ago. She vomits bile in the morning if I don't feed her a second dinner late at night, and it has to be meat, not canned. She is eating more than she used to, and I am worried she may be going the way as Josie. Matilda's thyroid level was 35. Over 30 can be pre-hyperthyroid. So I will test her again 12months from the last test. At the moment I am happy she eats. She does go off her food sometimes though. She starts to drop weight. I give her vitamins when she starts to go off her food and she bounces back. But she hates the vitamin paste.

Matilda is fast asleep outside. Our cooler weather has arrived finally. She has a very sore tooth at the moment. Trying to organise a vehicle to get her to my vet far away. I don't trust the local vets, and they charge a lot more than my old vet. Update on Josie: Josie is doing ok but gaining weight rapidly. I'm letting her eat more, then I put her on a low Iodine diet but she began to refuse the food. After researching online I'm giving her high quality protein, and when she wants to overeat I give her the low Iodine food. She's not drinking like a maniac anymore, but she's gaining fat weight. If I reduce her food, she loses muscle weight. I'm looking at homeopathic ideas to treat her. Realistically I don't have the means to treat her with a vet.