Thank you all so very much for your wonderful, comforting comments here and on Facebook and your emails about Miz Poo. I know how much she meant to me, and it was touching to see how much love is out there for her. It’s never easy to say goodbye to these beloved creatures who aren’t with us nearly long enough, but it’s part of the deal we make (and never think about) when we fall in love with them and bring them home. I keep expecting to see her laying on the chair behind me, and so when I see the chair empty, it’s momentarily surprising before I remember.
The other cats don’t seem to notice her absence except for Jake, who has been occasionally walking through the house howling, I expect that they knew her time was coming before we did.
So, again – thank you all, I so appreciate your kind words.
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While Lucy was wide-eyed staring behind me (I think a bird flew by the window), Gilda tries to sneak in a nursing session.
7 little muffins (Carlin was sitting on my feet).
Apparently complaints are as contagious as yawns. First Roseanne is all “I has a complaint!”
Then Rickles: “No, I has a complaint!”
Back it bounced to Roseanne, who insisted “NO, I HAZ A COMPLAINT AND MY COMPLAINT IS COMPLAINIER THAN YOURS!”
All the while, Louis just kept on lickin’.
The whole bunch of Fools (I put Carlin on the bed so he’d be in the picture too!)
Gorgeous Gilda from above.
Carlin was all “Wait, who’s….?”
“MY GOODNESS, YOU ARE A GOOD-LOOKIN’ KITTEN! YOU’RE NEARLY AS GOOD-LOOKIN’ AS ME!” I love the straight-out tail.
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Today you get TWO permanent residents (Kara’s turn was yesterday, and I could have just bumped her to today and then Joe Bob to tomorrow and so on, but there’s a strict schedule on the calendar – IN INK – and I would eventually have gotten confused!)
Kara’s too busy keeping an eye on the goings-on to bother with the likes of me.
A rare shot of Joe Bob inside, balanced precariously on Fred’s recliner.
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Previously
2014: Blaster keeps an eye on the ceiling fan, ’cause SOMEONE has to.
2013: Here he is with the ever-patient Tommy.
2012: No entry.
2011: “Are you sure these Declan hats are all the rage in England?”
2010: Corbett (AKA “Bad Boy”, even though he really isn’t)
2009: Guess who’s about to go off and be spayed and neutered???
2008: No entry.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: “What the – ?” I said to Miz Poo, who was looking more than a little freaked out.