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I'm starting to wonder if Dougal losing weight has got something to do with his teeth, since he'll happily eat wet food but there's no evidence that he eats the dry food if that's all there is. Given his age, however, I'm extremely reluctant to put him through being anaethatised to deal with this if it is the problem so I'm currently making dry food soup for him. Chicken paste and the like is okay as a short-term thing but it doesn't really have enough protein to work as a long-term food - I need to go and scour the wet kitten food labels again for one that's high enough in protein to be a possible substitute (ferret food is around 40% protein because of the shortness of their digestive tract).

In other news, we get the 4th season premiere of The Closer on Monday and then next Friday sees the season 3 premiere of Psych. I watched the second season premiere of Burn Notice this morning, which was enjoyable (and I can't wait for the four-episode arc with Michael Shanks!), and I also enjoyed the pilot episode of the new show Flashpoint which aired last night. Given that it's ostensibly set in Toronto and has both Hugh Dillon and young hottie David Paetkau in it, Flashpoint also ought to be good fodder for Canadian Actor Bingo, as well as hopefully giving Enrico Colantoni (better known as Keith Mars) more well-deserved screentime. He's got that air of calm competence that just works perfectly in this show, even if it does look a little odd seeing him in the SWAT-style outfits rather than a sheriff's uniform... ;)

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What I've read since my last post about books I've read:

Ice Blues by Richard Stevenson (excellent, can't wait to see the movie version)
The Game by Diana Wynne Jones (good, as always)
Sign of the Cross by Anne Emery (intriguing first novel)
Sisters of the Raven by Barbara Hambly (excellent)
The Dime Museum Murders by Daniel Stashower (okay)
The Redemption of Althalus by David & Leigh Eddings (disappointing)
Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead (good)

And I'm currently reading The Face of Time by Camille Bacon-Smith.

If you're interested in more on the above, you can check out my book blog, or some kind person has made me into an rss feed for LJ: graculus_vox.