Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from March, 2022

Charlie

  If there ever actually was something in this world that was meant to be, then supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was meant to describe Charlie. That's him in a suitably awesome nutshell. On top of that, he is also one of the most chilled-out fellas I've ever met. He's the kind of cat you can pick up as he sleeps on his left side, place him down on his right, and he'll just go straight back to sleep as if nothing happened. A total Zen master😉 His beginnings were not quite so chill, however. A couple of years ago on the eve of my birthday, as my partner was driving home from work, he noticed a white blob by the side of the road. He stopped the car and was horrified to see a small kitten with his right front leg hanging loosely off the hinge and his eyes glued shut with some kind of pus. So, this helpless creature had been forced to fend for himself in the wet and cold October weather, blinded by the flu and limping on three legs. There was not a dry eye in our house th