But kitties we know can hide physical pain, and in Resident Princess' case, she was hiding emotional pain, the anxiety she may be "let go" in favor of a newer model. So much was the pain she needed a larger body to hide it, so she ate, and ate and ate: her food, the baby's food, begged quietly for human food.
From the tiny tyke Princess she was ... to this 15 pounder in just 9 months that Royal Baby Soleste was with us.
We hit on a solution: we would assuage her emotional hunger, her emotional pain with a routine from her sick baby-hood when we dropper fed her everything from medicines, to nutritional supplements to water. As we must do again with the Royal Baby SunFairy whose "dire-rear" requires constant medication, so we also do with our Royal Princess...