This is Bucket. Bucket is, sensitive. We added a puppy to the family recently and while he tolerates her, he’s been stressed because of other life changes (I work a lot and am not home as much as I’d like to be, and my boyfriend’s cat stays here sometimes while boyfriend travels) as well as the puppy. I’m scheduling a vet visit anyway because he’s lost a little weight, but does he seem to be in pain according to the grimace scale?

He’s almost three years old, eating and drinking normally as far as I can tell and using the litter box regularly. His vet also thinks he has a rare strain of ringworm that flares up in periods of extreme stress (he had a spot in February/March when the other cats were bullying him out of food, has since healed and food situation fixed). There’s been no flare up since then.