Poor Friday...

I think our cat is preparing to hibernate. She's chunked on 4 pounds in the last month. Yep, she'll be sleeping any day now.
The other pet in the house is also slowing down for the winter. Even though the temperature in Sinbad's tank is 80+ degrees, he's gotten lazy about eating. That's saying a lot for a snake that usually eats 1 large mouse or 2 smaller mice, then searches the cage for more. I bought him a mouse last Saturday, and he finally ate it on Tuesday. Last winter, he went on a 6 week hunger strike. We tried everything we could think of, and he just wouldn't eat. We finally had a warm spell, so I took the snake to the Exotic Amphibian and Reptile Center and asked them to look at him.
The EARC is a fabulous store on Lemay Ferry. It's where I buy most of Sinbad's food and bedding from, and it's where we bought the snake himself, too.
Anyway, they said Sinbad was fine. Sometimes in the winter snakes won't eat -something about preparing for the mating season.