An update on Walter

I know exactly how you feel, Twyla. I have set up a feeding spot for Tilly-cat on the dining table, so Pip doesn't wolf her renal food (which gives him diarrhoea, as well as being needed by Tilly) - this has meant moving all the chairs and other furniture to the sides of the room so Pip can't scramble up. All the animals are convinced Poppy's hepatic diet is better than theirs, except Poppy who would prefer what they are getting. The bowl of food that Pip and Tilly can share is outside the cat flap, where so far it has resisted Sophy's efforts to reach it, but where it is regularly raided by neighbours' cats and, through Spring and Summer, by a growing family of extremely well nourished blackbirds, who appreciate this labour saving way of feeding their numerous broods. But, as you say, whatever it takes...