Cats - and a digression

Honeycat has cystitis again. However, since it seemed fairly mild, and she didn't seem to be in much distress, I thought I'd try various home remedies instead of packaging her straight off to the Evil Scary Cat-Torturing Man. (We in our ignorance call him "the vet", but cats know his true nature. They are wise in such things. Not in many other things, admittedly.)

( Catty stuff )

To digress a little, what's with this "as nature intended" thing that people are so fond of going on about? Which bit of nature? I bet the bits of nature possessing of sharp teeth and mighty jaws have rather different intentions from those bits of nature who are unfortunate enough to be shaped as succulent bite-sized morsels. I bet insect-eating plants have a different perspective on things from a grasshopper. Oak trees, I'd imagine, think very slowly about things, and would disagree with a hummingbird. And then we have all those people who point at new developments and say that they interfere with the untouched, natural beauty of… er… thatched cottages, square fields, hedgerows, ruined castles and pretty churches. All of which, clearly, grow from seeds and would be striding the world like colossi, had mankind not intervened. (Not that Colossi stride the world, anyway, rather than bestride it, but the (mis)quotation wanted to be included, and who am I to deny it?)

( More catty stuff, and a catty question )