The best day of your life?
Five years ago, I dashed home between errands to find that after ten days of failure, we’d trapped the cat. I had almost exactly ten minutes to spare in my schedule, so I burned rubber to get the cat and…
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Tag Archive: cats
The way things open and close
She arrived in our house after we’d been married a few months, part mistake and part fate the way good things always are. We had seen teeny-tiny kittens in the pet store, so I went to the animal shelter to…
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Our new kitten, part two
The kitten has settled into the household without any hassles. I thought it would take a couple of weeks of gating him off in a separate room before we were able to have him out. Instead it took two days…
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“Hey, no!”
The woman at the pet shelter said, “And you can change his name, you know.” I said, “I’m sure we will.” Except five days later, we still haven’t. But first let me back up a bit. Kiddo2, fully in love…
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A gift of cats
Kiddo#3 has decided he wants a guinea pig. While I was trying to work him down from the frenzy of grief of not having one (yet, possibly ever) his sister said, “Well for my birthday, I’m going to ask for…
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