This week has been a crappy one, critter-wise. Yesterday, my sister lost one of her cats. He was pretty ancient (over 20, so he goes back to my parents. Now we have no critters left that knew them), but that doesn’t make it any easier, of course. He was more or less blind, but his sniffer still worked good. Lately, he spent most of his time on his memory foam pillow in front of the pellet stove, occasionally taking a swipe at the other cat if she was dumb enough to get close (not so with the dogs; he loved them all, and they’d routinely slurp him). I’m really hoping that a period of happiness will now settle in. Oh well, time to clean out the garage or something.