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I Draw the Line at Cat Pee

We had a handyman come and install a cat door between the hallway and the laundry behind it. That way we could put all of Floyd’s litter and food in the laundry and not have it be the object of the Squishy’s obsession or have it stink out the place. Except that he won’t use [...]

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Grieving Ends. Mourning is Forever

It’s now been seven months since Morgan died. Riley now accepts that she’s not coming home, she’s not coming back and it is permanent. Which is a big relief to me – not having to explain it over and over again. And not to have to bear the burden of her grief as well. And [...]

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Goodbye

The ad in the classifieds said that there were kittens for $20. But Morgan was free. The breeder said when we got there that he had just wanted to make sure that the kittens were actually wanted. In the beginning, the kitten I wanted was a black tom cat. I ended up choosing a tabby [...]

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Morgan

My cat is 17 years old. I’ve had her since I was just 15. Recently things have been difficult. She has arthritis which she is on medication for and has taken to incessant and loud yowling all hours of the night. It’s worse than it sounds. On a bad night, no one gets any decent [...]

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119/365 Underestimated

I boarded Morgan today. Because of her age and her being on medication she’ll be staying at the vets instead of at the cattery. Probably just as well all those other cats would probably just freak her out. But there was one thing I completely underestimated about the whole thing. And that was how attached [...]

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Favourite Blog Posts of 2009

I read Best Blog Posts of 2009 at Scary Mommy and thought it was a pretty cool idea – if I have only got 6 months to choose from. I started this blog in July, thinking that it would be fun to do every now and then, but it quickly became more addictive than I’d [...]

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