Two years after the first attack of inflammed gums around his left lower canine tooth, in March 2009 we suffered another major setback. Sage began dragging his biscuits out of his food bowl onto the floor one by one, drawing them to himself and eating them gingerly. This was very odd but amusing behaviour and at first I thought he had developed yet another cute trait like the ARTHUR cat on tele, but it wasn’t long before he began hissing at his food again. I checked his mouth and to my horror both sides of his lower gums were severely inflammed and smelly. It was obvious to me then that the reason he had been dragging his food out of his bowl was that somehow he was blaming the food bowl for the pain in his mouth. Read More