RIP

We had my cat Sunny put down today. I have to update the pets page. He would have been 19 this spring.

He was a grand old cat. I’m really going to miss him once it sinks in that he’s gone. He’s the second long-time pet we’ve lost in the last six months. It’s rough – pets seldom outlive us, but I generally think that the pain of losing them is more than made up for by the joy they bring into our lives.

Sunny was the perfect cat to have for a child – patient with being held awkwardly or dressed up in doll clothes or put in an upside-down laundry basket to be a ‘tiger’ in a ‘zoo.’ When I was very little and the cats were still allowed upstairs, he sometimes would sleep on my bed until it was time for the cats to be fed. He wandered away from home three times when I was little, but we always found him again and once he got out of his wandering years he never strayed far and always came in for dinner.

He was a great cat, and I’m glad he was with us as long as he was. But I’m really going to miss him, old cat foibles and all.