Well, who'da thunk it?

[desperance]

Turns out that if you feed roses, they burst into effulgeous bloom. Who knew? (I swear I'd taken a photo, but I cannot find it. And I can't go out to take another, because the yard guys have turned up - finally, at 6pm on a Saturday - and obviously I cannot exist in the same space as other people, brrr, I must hide up till they're gone.)

It may be that the same is true of cats, that they only thrive if fed adequately. Clearly the opposite is true, that if you starve & deprive them they turn so weak that their legs cannot support their frail bodies. As witness:



and wait, there's more:



That poor, poor boy. Starved and humiliated both, exhibited in his agony...