A New Cat
January 28, 2013
Life, as many people have noted, is what happens to you when you're
making other plans.
Last year involved both human and animal death in our family, as we lost both my father and our two beloved cats (the boys), who died within a few months of each other. We spent two weeks away at Christmas, so we did not want to adopt a new cat (or cats) until the new year. Frankly, we were so in love with our two spayed male tabbies that we were thinking of looking for the same the next time around.
And then circumstances suddently presented us with a cat in the house for the forseeable future that wasn't what we planned. Her name is Patrice, and she is a calico. She's not as much of a lap cat as the boys were, but then she is younger than they ever were in this house. She performs amazing feats of leaping, loves being in drawers, and runs around with a speed and abandon that hasn't been see in this house in a decade.
It is too early to say much about her personality. She doesn't run away and she doesn't hide; those are good things in a cat. Someday, she may start to fill the hole in our heart where the boys used to live, but she's got really big paws to fill.
Last year involved both human and animal death in our family, as we lost both my father and our two beloved cats (the boys), who died within a few months of each other. We spent two weeks away at Christmas, so we did not want to adopt a new cat (or cats) until the new year. Frankly, we were so in love with our two spayed male tabbies that we were thinking of looking for the same the next time around.
And then circumstances suddently presented us with a cat in the house for the forseeable future that wasn't what we planned. Her name is Patrice, and she is a calico. She's not as much of a lap cat as the boys were, but then she is younger than they ever were in this house. She performs amazing feats of leaping, loves being in drawers, and runs around with a speed and abandon that hasn't been see in this house in a decade.
It is too early to say much about her personality. She doesn't run away and she doesn't hide; those are good things in a cat. Someday, she may start to fill the hole in our heart where the boys used to live, but she's got really big paws to fill.