In memory: Esme
Sometimes it just doesn’t seem fair. Even when we get “bonus” time, unexpected “extra” time, with a very sick cat like Esme, goodbye still doesn’t seem right or okay when it comes.
Meet the Community Cats #6: Esme the enigma
Some cats won’t give a scary diagnosis the time of day. Tabby’s Place is blessed with a wealth of these death-defiers, and perhaps none is more charming, more adorable, or more downright peculiar than our tiny Esme.
Webster update: love grows
The great philosopher Burt Bacharach once opined, “Only love can break a heart. Only love can mend it again.” Clearly Webster has his heart turned to that station, because new love is healing his hurts day by day.
From Mt. Olympus to the pit of lime sulfur
As if it weren’t hard enough being itty-bitty, the youngest septet at Tabby’s Place has faced an especially severe indignity. Despite being “deities,” these seven siblings have fallen from grace into (dum-dum-DUM)…ringworm.
Traveler’s tummy
Tabby’s Place is far enough from the border that we’re safe from Montezuma’s revenge. We don’t feed the cats purple yam ice cream or pangolin brains. And there’s no need to get immunized against dysentery before visiting Ringoes, NJ. Despite all of this, our newcomers are still prone to the bane of travelers everywhere: tummy troubles.
Tortiepalooza
Whereas: only 9% of cats in Tabby’s Place history have been tortoiseshells. Whereas: we are presently graced with no fewer than six torties. Resolved: this is cause for massive celebration.
Cabbage patch kittens
At Tabby’s Place, it’s known that even when “kitten season” is considered over, kittens will continue appearing. But in the case of Aro, Renata and McKenna, what’s less understood is exactly where they’ve appeared from. In fact, I’m inclined to wonder if they’ve sprung, blossom-like, from the hardiest roadside wildflowers. Or, perhaps, from the proverbial […]
Kicking off 2010 cutely
Cuteness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. And Cutie is now in the home of a family beholding her with the eyes of love. Yes, it’s a very Happy New Year indeed, fellow cuteness-lovers.
Santa Lucia
There are many advantages to having human beans write this blog. One key perk: getting to sing the songs of the cats too humble to toot their own trumpets. Behold the bashful beauty that is Lucia.
Five days away
Vacation is good. Being with family? Molto good. But being away from the Tabby’s Place cats for five days is distinctly sub-good. Good heavens, it’s grand to be home.