Max the Cat Is Not Happy About Her New Diet

Max is a four-and-a-half-year-old mixed breed cat, and she is not impressed by her new food. After months of scratching and sneezing, our vet in Bang Kapi suspected allergies, so we switched her to a special diet that had to be introduced slowly over three weeks. For the first week she stared at the bowl like it had insulted her family. She would sit beside it, look at me, then look back at the bowl. I tried sneaking in a little of her old food, and she caught me every single time. Cats have excellent memories for betrayal. Now she eats it without complaining, mostly. Her skin looks calmer, and she has stopped over-grooming her belly. Every morning she still waits by the cupboard where the old food used to live, just in case I forgot.