@SlickWilly We've got a cat just like that. It's a lynx point himalayan. Riley, outside.
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What a cutie! I've always said we don't own them, they choose to live with us and give us their love.
I lost my buddy of 14 years a few weeks ago, he showed up here as a stray skinny kitten one summer night. I was sitting outside and the next thing I know I have a kitten sitting next to me. We couldn't find anyone who owned him so he just stayed, he adopted me, he never wanted anything to do with anyone else in the family. During the winter he liked to sleep with me snuggled up tight against me, in the summer he'd stay out all night. He'd come into my office, jump up on my chest and want attention for a while then nap on my desk just to be near me, it's been empty without him and I really miss him. The doctor told me his kidneys were badly swollen and had shut down, blood work showed he was full of toxins, "off the charts" and "not something that would naturally occur" I asked her, are you telling me someone poisoned him? "I would have to say it looks that way, it's not natural, the levels are very high" she said. There was no coming back from it and he was suffering in terrible pain, he wouldn't have lasted the day so I held him while they put him down, I didn't want him to be in fear, it broke my heart. God help the person who put him
through so much pain if I find out who they are, someone has a sick demented mind to do something like that. It's just not the same around here without him.