On the way home from the casino, after all that hard work, he mustered up the energy to stop at the Walmart Neighborhood Market and buy cat food. We are trying some canned food on Eloise because she has always eaten moist food that comes in pouches, and this canned stuff is a little bit cheaper. At one time she was refusing to eat the canned, and a lot of it was going to the foxes. This month she seemed to like Mixed Grill flavor, and that was our previous cat Buddy's favorite. Well they don't have Mixed Grill any more, so we are trying Country Style Dinner and Supreme Supper. You know there can't be that much difference from one can to the next, so I don't know why they can't stick with the tried and true name: Mixed Grill. We didn't want the cats to turn up their noses at these new names, so used a Sharpie to cross them out and wrote Mixed Grill on the cans. That'll fool those cats and keep them chowing down.

There is a cat door for the Las Vegas cat that takes him out into the garage, and from there he can got through a vent hole to the outside. Eloise hasn't figured it out yet, and we hope she doesn't because we don't think she would know how to get back home if she escaped. However, for all we know, she comes and goes at night and gets back home before sunrise and we don't know the difference.

The cats have a new toy: Animal Planet Laser Something, battery powered. It projects a red laser dot onto the floor and walls in a random pattern for 20 minutes at a time, relieving us of having to do it manually because Eloise doesn't instantly start playing with it - she sits for 10 minutes watching it before deciding if it's worth chasing. The Las Vegas cat is spooked by the very slight noise it makes because he is an outside cat, living on his wits much of time, and has to be cautious of everything, so he wants nothing to do with it.

The weather here in Las Vegas is just about what we expect this time of year - 70s during the day, 50s at night. No humidity to speak of, no rain or snow. There is so little precipitation here that when it does finally rain, the main roads can get really slick from all the oils and lubricants that fall from cars into the travel lanes and adding water from rain makes it very slick. Sounds odd, but I've seen it in action.