On the Stoicness of Cats
Eric, doing Downward Facing Paperweight, a classic Hatha yoga pose Eric’s still doing great, but I know how to read my Orange Menace, and he’s been in his discomfort pose more times this week than I’ve...
View ArticleEric: April ?? 2002 – November 17, 2009
Eric doing the Happy Kitty Curl. Taken about 2 weeks before he died. Eric’s heart stopped yesterday, and I had to let him go. I have lots I want to say about his death and the decisions I made along...
View ArticleSomebody needs a kitten
Hitlercat and Eric, combining their powers of cute. Ever since Eric’s been gone, Hitlercat, who’s snuggly and affectionate but by and large a pretty independent sort, has become Velcro Kitty with +2 to...
View Article*blows off cobwebs*
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Law school kind of blew up in my face after Eric died, and then I adopted a kitten, whom we named Callisto (“the most beautiful” in Greek, also synonymous with “Get...
View ArticleFarewell, Old Friend
Death is inevitable, of course, and in the case of my beloved old lady, it didn’t come as a surprise, not really. She’d gotten creakier, and skinnier, and greasier, and tireder, little by little, year...
View ArticleNew Year, New Kitten—and Some Thoughts on Dry Food
So the boyfriend and I did a thing whereby we paid a ridiculous sum of money for a purebred baby cat who wouldn’t make me sneeze (vs. Callisto, who is one of those magical one-in-a-hundred cats who are...
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