“Adopting a cat is a crapshoot,” my friend told me, “especially shelter cats.” This may be true, but over the years I’ve had very good luck with cats. Walter I adopted from the SPCA. He ran away after many happy, healthy years. Ethel was adopted as a kitten from a friend at work. She lived to be eighteen years old, …
To a Cat
My beloved friend TicTac, whom I have served for ten years, died the other day at the age of 15. Actually, we helped her over into the afterlife, since she had an enormous and untreatable tumor. It was very hard. Doing euthanasia at home was a blessing; I highly recommend it if you can arrange it when the time is …