Sat 3 Jan 2009
Happy Together
 Pat and I have been best friends for 24 years, and today’s our wedding anniversary. At right is a photo from the wedding, taken by her son Jack, and below is a rose from our garden. |
Mon 17 Nov 2008
Man Cat Monday: Remembering Shiloh
In the spring of 1997, Pat’s daughter-in-law Jennie said that she knew someone who was trying to find homes for kittens. The mother had been hit by a car only days after giving birth, and the humans were working hard to take care of the orphaned kittens.
Jennie and Jack took an orange female, giving her the name Lilly, Pat’s niece Denise adopted a calico kitten and named her Kit’ten, and Denise’s mother Connie and her husband Ed gave a forever home to two orange boys.
Here’s a page devoted to their man cats Casey and Shiloh, and I also posted about them here a couple of years ago.
Connie said that in the morning she would get her coffee and put the newspaper on the kitchen table, and Shiloh would get her attention by lying down on the paper. If Connie walked into the bathroom, Shiloh followed, both for attention and for the water his human mom always ran for him. Whenever Pat and I visited, Shiloh was likely to wind up at my feet, lying on his back and enjoying a tummy rub.
Sadly, Shiloh developed cancer at only 11 years old, and was helped to the Bridge recently.
Here are a couple of photos of Shiloh taken in 2005 (with my apologies for the flashed-out eyes) showing him looking up and out from the basement steps, and posing in a dignified way while inside a plastic toy tube. You can just see next to him the feather toy that helped get him there.
