Update for Faye

Update for Faye

Hello, Friends of Faye!

Faye and I hope this month’s update finds you safe, healthy, and ready to embrace the wonders that come with warmer weather! Personally, I still have a few more weeks of summer school remaining before engaging in my favorite summer pastime: reading on the beach. During last week’s class meeting, my students asked if I was planning on having a “hot girl summer,” which I’m told is “goals” for anyone who’s anyone in post-Millennial culture. Having otherwise little insight into this status, I, of course, followed up with Faye. I figure if there’s a kitty out there who’s in the know about “hot girl summer,” it’s Tabby’s Place’s resident glamour girl.

Faye explained that “hot girl summer” is less a time and more a vibe—one that she maintains effortlessly year-round. For her, this means rockin’ a winter floof and a summer lion’s cut with equal panache, for example. Or striking a pose whether perched high atop the rafters in her suite or on a chair in the solarium. It means seeking out a blanket into which you can seamlessly blend when you’re trying to low-key avoid paparazzi snaps, or giving the camera your full head-turned-under cuteness when you’re social media energy is ready to break the internet. I’ll admit that I was struck by the extent of her knowledge on a topic about which I was woefully under-informed. And I would have liked to talk more about it, but Faye was quickly over it, as our conversation shifted from “hot girl summer” to “too many new roommates spring.”

Suite B has been a very busy and unbalanced place in the last month, as many new cats have moved into the suite. And, while not “territorial” per se, Faye has always been a girl who needs (okay, demands) her personal space. There have been reports of more instances of vomiting and, um . . . “inappropriate elimination” in the suite, and Faye—especially a frustrated Faye—is always a suspect for both. As a kitty on chemotherapy medication, Faye has routine bloodwork run every six weeks. Happily, her levels were all where we would expect them to be. So, it would appear that Faye just has a sort of weird way of protecting her boundaries. In the long-term, though, I suspect that Faye will be less bothered by the new arrivals in her suite, so long as these newcomers respect her space and position as the resident diva in charge.

Faye and I look forward to spending another summer with you, and we hope that your plans for the season are well underway.  I’m looking ahead to longer days, warmer nights, and fresh-picked Jersey strawberries. Faye is ready for lazy solarium days, complete with warm breezes and the hum of nearby bumblebees buzzing through the flowers in Cherny’s Garden nearby. We hope that whatever this month’s moments may bring, that you find joy in every day.

Thank you, as always, for being a part of Faye’s journey—summer, fall, winter, and spring. She loves you so very much! We’ll talk again soon, friends . . .

Your correspondent,
Beth