Stories about our bestest buddy

Can cats grieve?

We adopted Binky and Wingnut together. Wingnut was around three months old at the time. We’d gone to the pet store (this was a local shop that partnered with a no-kill shelter for adoption events) looking for a kitten. Or at least a young cat. I figured between three months and two years, give or […]

Unprepared

Binky was eighteen. He lived with intestinal lymphoma for almost two years. When we started treating his cancer, we learned that before we’d adopted him, he’d been shot with a BB gun. Either an ultrasound or an X-Ray (I can’t remember which) discovered a BB lodged in his shoulder area. Six months after we adopted […]

The quiet

I’ve mentioned more than once how quiet the house feels now. It took me a bit to figure out why. Obviously, Binky was loud. He breathed loud, slept loud, walked loud. He had a meow that you could hear even if he were at the south end of the top floor and you were at […]