Flashback to 2025: Cats
In 2009, we acquired four cats from my sister April. Originally we were going to "cat sit" for a year, and then return the two older cats, Abish and Ishmael to her, while we kept the younger ones, Moroni (Momo) and Lamoni (Lala). See other blog posts about the cats: The Adventures of the Destructo-Cats , the time Lala caught a baby rabbit , The imposter part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 , Ishmael's Ordeal . Momo passed away in 2015 as we were preparing to leave on a trip. Abish disappeared in 2018 and we never figured out what happened to her. Lala passed away in September of 2022. I didn't blog about his passing at the time. I think he had been sick for a while: he had lost a lot of weight, stopped using the litterbox, and meowed constantly. I was dealing with my second cancer surgery and overwhelmed with bills and life, so we didn't take him to the vet as we probably should have. It was kind of a relief when he pa...