I’m a cat person. This year a little chocolate brown dog walked into my life and turned my beliefs upside-down.
I just gaze at her adoringly, marvelling at how a cat that rolls in the dirt daily can still appear so white, and repeatedly telling myself such beauty can be appreciated from afar.
I’ve been living away from my cat for six months. She has been on a ‘seaside vacation’, a cat sabbatical. My days are no longer punctuated by her requests for food, attention or door-opening.
One of our family, Cootie, left us today. Cootie’s been part of my life for 17 years. She came to me as a wee kitten…